Holiday online spending up 15% as Green Monday hits
Online holiday spending is up 15% so far this year, with Americans shelling out nearly $25 billion, according to online traffic monitor comScore.
Online holiday spending is up 15% so far this year, with Americans shelling out nearly $25 billion, according to online traffic monitor comScore.
Tech stocks looked strong Friday morning on the back of a week of upbeat surveys on small business and online spending, positive news about enterprise hardware and hopeful reports on U.S. employment and the European debt crisis.
Consumers took full advantage of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/112811-cyber-monday-253486.html">Cyber Monday</a> deals, racking up a record-breaking $1.25 billion worth of online purchases on the first business day of the week following Thanksgiving.
Industry watchers expect online sales to surpass $1 billion today, Cyber Monday.
If Black Friday was any indication of a move to online shopping, e-tailers on Cyber Monday may be headed to a record breaking sales day.
Based on the first three weeks of November, comScore is forecasting 15% growth in e-commerce spending for the 2011 holiday season.
The number people accessing social networking sites in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. using their mobile phone has grown by 44 percent in the last year, market research company comScore said on Monday.
With Nvidia and Cisco reporting results, there was some good news on the chip and networking front this week that, with the help of a successful debt offering by Italy that eased economic concerns, helped fuel a rise in IT vendors' shares Friday morning.
The U.S. online retail market looks solid as the busy holiday shopping season gets under way, although economic uncertainty remains, according to a study from comScore.
There's a good chance that if you didn't access Facebook or Twitter last year, you do today.
Many top websites share their visitors' names, usernames or other personal information with their partners without telling users and, in some cases, without knowing they're doing it, according to a new study from Stanford University.
Android smartphone users in the U.S. grew to an even greater share in comScore's latest ranking, hitting 43.7%, while iPhone users grew slightly to 27.3%.
Apple is expected to <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/19007/apple_confirms_october_4_iphone_5_event">announce the iPhone 5</a> tomorrow, and wireless carrier Sprint is expected to soon begin selling a version of the iconic <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/75/Smartphones">smartphone</a> for the first time.
Despite Google+'s making a huge splash in the social networking world, rivals Facebook and Twitter continue to grow at dramatic rates.
Depending on how you count, China can have as many as 450 million Web users, or just 300 million.