A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about. This week: We caught up with Loren Bendele, CEO of Savings.com, a deal-finding social network, just in time for the holiday shopping wars! Read More »

Although BoomTown is still in a tryptophan coma of turkey, I will not be missing one of our All Things Digital columnists on “The Martha Stewart Show” today. That would be Katherine Boehret of the Mossberg Solution, who will be appearing on the television program this morning (check times for your area) to talk tech gadgets with Martha. Read More »

Programming Note

All Things Digital will publish on an abbreviated schedule for the remainder of the week in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Black Friday is expected to kick off a more upbeat e-commerce season this year, but heavyweights Amazon.com, Google and eBay are poised to make the biggest holiday gains, analysts said. Read More »

Given that Hulu is about to start tinkering with paywalls and subscriptions, its viewership numbers matter a bit less than they used to. But for the record, the video site had a record October. It will be very interesting to see what happens to these numbers next year if Hulu does move ahead with some sort of pay service. Read More »

Come early December, Oracle will meet with European Commission regulators to urge their approval of its merger with Sun Microsystems. “Two people with knowledge of the matter” tell Reuters that “Oracle has asked for a hearing which has been fixed for Dec. 10.” Read More »

The day after Thanksgiving is one of the biggest shopping days of the year and marks the official beginning of the holiday retail season. So where can you find the Black Friday deals? Google the term and a host of compilation sites pop up, many of which began posting information a month ago to alert customers to the best deals. Read More »

Internet researcher comScore said consumers spent more shopping online in the first 22 days of the holiday season than they did during the same period last year. But even though they are expected to spend more this season than during last year’s downtrodden holiday season, consumers are likely to keep their online spending tempered, the group said. Read More »

As incongruous as it might seem, Apple’s iPhone is headed to the shelves of Tesco, the U.K. supermarket chain. The retailer will begin selling Apple’s super-smartphone “shortly” through its Tesco Phone Shops and online via Tesco Direct. Read More »

What’s Twitter Inc. worth? Venture investors valued the social networking start-up at $1.13 billion in its most recent financing round in September. Some holders of common stock think it’s worth even more–$1.3 billion. Read More »

Last month I told you about Hot Potato, one of the buzziest start-ups in the very buzzy “real time” sector. Now you can check out the service yourself. Or at least you can get a glimpse of it in this video. Read More »

A year ago, when Time Warner Cable and Viacom sparred over renewal fees, Viacom took out ads asking consumers for sympathy. Today, faced with the prospect of similar fights with the likes of News Corp. and Scripps, Time Warner Cable is launching its own appeal. Good luck with that. Read More »

With Sun Microsystems beginning to founder as it awaits European Commission clearance of its acquisition by Oracle, a group of U.S. senators is urging the European Commission to speed up its approval of the deal. In an open letter, the group essentially tells European regulators to “get on with it,” warning that further delay could result in additional layoffs at Sun. Read More »

How do you get Web users to pay for content? Get an iPhone into their hands. That’s one conclusion you can draw from a new survey showing that people who own Apple handsets are more willing to pay for stuff than the average Internet surfer. Read More »

Having diligently hewn Psytar’s legal coffin over the past year and a half, Apple has now taken up its hammer and set about nailing the Mac clone maker into it. This week the company called for a permanent injunction against Psystar’s operations. Read More »