12/04/2013, The holiday shopping weekend, which comprised of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and the first working day of the next week, Cyber Monday has finally ended. Customers spent almost $2 billion online on Thanksgiving and Black Friday alone. The latest data from analytics firm Localytics reveals that new iPad Air activations led all other tablets during the entire period. The firm recorded a 51 percent increase in activations of new iPads as opposed to […]

12/03/2013, IBM recently released a report after tracking over 800 retail websites in the U.S. that iOS was far ahead of Android during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping weekend. During the weekend, traffic generated by iOS devices accounted for 28.2 percent of all online traffic as opposed to 11.4 percent contributed by Android. It turns out that iOS did much better during Cyber Monday as well. A report released by […]

12/02/2013, A research note from Brian White, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, reveals that more than 39 percent of online shoppers over the holiday weekend were interested in purchasing a tablet. With nearly $2 billion being spent over the weekend online, customers are bound to have purchased a significant amount of tablets as well apart from a wide variety of other products. Tablets were at the forefront of the consumer electronics […]

12/02/2013, There has been a surge in online shopping over this holiday weekend, with recent data revealing that over $760 million being spent on Thanksgiving Day and over $1.2 billion being spent online on Black Friday alone. Today is Cyber Monday and already a lot of deals have been announced which are likely to entice shoppers. Microsoft’s Xbox One Cyber Monday 2013 deal has gone live, the company is offering the […]

12/02/2013, Nobody will be surprised when they hear that a lot of people spent a lot of money on online shopping this Black Friday, it has become a yearly tradition. According to the latest data released by comScore, over $1.2 billion was spent online this Black Friday, making it the first holiday day this season to cross the billion dollar mark. Black Friday 2012 saw a total of $1.04 billion being spent […]

12/01/2013, When the Sony PS4 was first released in the US, it managed to garner over a million units in sales within 24 hours. Not to be outdone, Microsoft’s Xbox One, which was introduced to the North American market not too long after that, also managed to clock up more than one million consoles in sales figures within a day. Here we are with Black Friday having come and past, and […]

11/28/2013, A few days ago we reported that Apple would be introducing Black Friday deals via its online store and its retail outlets. Given that Apple products tend to lean more towards the pricey side of things, this is of course a welcome deal by many, even if it means that your savings could be $30-$50. Unfortunately unlike last year’s deals where Apple actually gave discounts on selected products, Apple has […]

11/27/2013, As Thanksgiving and Black Friday approach, we have started hearing more and more about the Black Friday 2013 deals we can expect from retailers, carriers and just about anyone trying to cash in on the hype. This is the first we’re hearing of a T-Mobile Black Friday 2013 deal, according to a screenshot received by the folks at T-Mobile, for three days Magenta is going to offer both the iPhone […]

11/25/2013, With the holiday weekend fast approaching, various companies and retailers have been rushing to make their deals public. There’s bound to be a lot of shopping craze during the weekend, particularly on Black Friday. We’re seeing more and more Black Friday deals being listed with every passing day and Samsung has something that it wants to offer its customers as well. The Korean giant isn’t shaving off hundreds of dollars […]

11/25/2013, The 2013 Apple Black Friday deals have finally been confirmed, the company confirmed today that it is going to offer deals both online and its retail stores. In the online store, special Black Friday pricing for products will be available from midnight to midnight, so customers will have a full 24 hours to get their orders in. Apple is likely to cater to a large number of customers on Black […]

11/26/2012, Hmmm, normally, one would take to social media to spread the word on a particular event or happening at the lowest cost possible, but it seems as though this Black Friday, social media proved to be far from effective. In an IBM study, it discovered that shoppers referred from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube generated a mere 0.34% of online sales on Black Friday itself, which is […]

11/20/2012, Blizzard knows that times are hard these days, and there will always be a market of price sensitive gamers who do not want to pick up a game when it is first released simply because they know that the games will go on sale months down the road. If you happen to fall under that category, then you might be interested to find out that Blizzard is also joining in […]

11/29/2011, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been around for quite some time already, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft is about to call it a day on the venerable console. No sir, there is still quite a fair amount of mileage left inside it, not to mention Sony has yet to deliver anything else beyond the PlayStation 3 just yet. Having said that, the Xbox 360 recently notched the largest sales performance ever […]

11/25/2011, Yes, we saw Apple’s Black Friday deals leaked just a couple of days ago, but as with most things in life – good things come to those who wait. Case in point, Black Friday is upon us, and as you can expect, there are plenty of crazy deals going around that you can write about, although Apple has been rather prudent through the years when it comes to slashing prices […]