Figures released by comScore show the 2012 holiday season as the most lucrative online shopping period ever, with over $1 billion spent on seven separate days following Thanksgiving. More...
An iPad buyer was left disappointed in Texas after receiving an iPad box stuffed with notepads rather than Apple's tablet, leaving one very disappointed teenager on their birthday. More...
If you're just back from your holiday and have no food in the fridge, there's a new virtual store at Gatwick Airport. Just scan the barcode with your smartphone and have everything delivered at home More...
Microsoft demonstrates a new way to go grocery shopping based on using Kinect for Windows, where a grocery cart follows a person around the store, scans items and more. More...
After only a year, the UK branch of Best Buy is to close. The company cites 'unprofitable operation', and the British-based Carphone Warehouse intends to close all eleven branches. More...
For about a year we've been working behind the scenes at TechSpot on our latest project, the Product Finder, a comprehensive up-to-date catalog of tech products... More...
A new study from the NPD Group claims that while consumers do a lot of research online before buying electronic products, many still don't actually purchase them on a web site. More...
The days of tax free internet shopping may be coming to an end. According to CNET, democratic Senator, Dick Durbin is aiming to introduce a legislation called "the main street fairness act" that puts tax... More...
Black Friday, the busiest day of consumer spending in the US, and the symbolic beginning of the Winter holiday shopping season, is also a scammer's paradise. When customers are throwing money at you faster than... More...
Microsoft has set an opening date of November 18 for its latest retail store, due to open in Bellevue Square next month. The store is a fifteen minute drive from Microsoft's headquarters and company campus at... More...
Our friend over at ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley, has pointed out that Microsoft is officially giving up on Bing Cashback. Bing Cashback was an incentive for customers to shop through Microsoft's Bing search engine, as... More...
Microsoft has agreed to buy comparison shopping business Ciao in a deal worth around US$486 million, and plans to integrate the service into its Live Search sites, it announced Friday. The deal is a sign... More...
Security researchers studying the latest Internet crime trends have discovered a new Eastern European website that uses a large botnet to infect vulnerable PCs. The operators of the botnet and website charge clients for each... More...
eBay is getting a facelift. And while it's probably long overdue, we're not quite sure if its necessary.While pretty much every new website you see these days use newfangled tools like AJAX and Flash animation... More...
IBM and financial house Lehman Brothers have created a $180 million China Investment Fund with the goal of providing business insight for the country's public and private companies. The investment plan, begun with $90... More...
Internet search firm Google has launched its Froogle price comparison Web site in Britain, expanding the company's e-commerce business and putting it head to head with partners such as Kelkoo. Froogle UK (http://froogle.google.co.uk) works like... More...
Microsoft is planning on launching a new shopping website called "Windows Marketplace". This website will offer software, hardware, and peripherals. PCWorld reports that it will be advertised in the "Windows XP Start Menu... More...
Amazon.com has formed a group to develop e-commerce search technology, an attempt to gain a foothold in a lucrative market Google and Yahoo now dominate. Called A9.com, the independently run unit of... More...
A Variety report says that Valve is willing to make a Half-Life movie to broaden the franchise's audience. According to a story in today's Variety, Valve has been actively talking with Hollywood... More...
The MSN® network of Internet Services today announced that MSN Shopping kicked off the holiday season this week as the No. 1 online shopping portal, with traffic up 50 percent this November, as compared to... More...
America Online has banned teens from its shopping areas, following criticism that the proprietary online service allowed young adults to buy pornography, alcohol and tobacco from partner sites. AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said Monday that... More...
Yahoo! Inc. on Thursday said a special three-day sale it offered last week produced a 25 percent increase in gross merchandise sales over normal levels on Yahoo Shopping. The company, which does... More...