36 posts and columns on holiday season
eBay CEO on “Cautious” Holiday Outlook: We Didn’t Mean to Sound So Negative
A reason for e-commerce investors to feel a bit more jolly?Voices
Amazon to Hire 70,000 Workers for the Holidays
Amazon.com Inc. plans to hire 70,000 seasonal workers for its U.S. warehouse network this year, a 40 percent increase that points to the company’s upbeat expectations about the holiday selling season.News Byte
Cyber Monday Spending Hits $1.5 Billion, Shatters U.S. Record
Cyber Monday spending hit $1.5 billion in the U.S. to make it the biggest shopping day in history, according to comScore, which tracks purchases made on computers using broadband connections. The firm reports that on Cyber Monday, which falls on the Monday after Thanksgiving, spending was up 17 percent year over year, and that overall, e-commerce spending for the first 26 days of the holiday season has totaled $16.4 billion, a 16 percent increase over last year. ComScore does not include purchases made over mobile devices, which by one account is estimated to be contributing as much as 13 percent of sales this season.Holiday Spending Online Will Again See Double-Digit Increases
Deal-seeking shoppers in the U.S. are expected to spend $68.4 billion online this holiday, according to Forrester.You Know You’re Going to Watch It: All About the Times Square Ball
It’s said a billion people watch the six-ton ball drop every year. Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about it.Ho-Ho-Mobile: Record Number of Consumers Expected to Shop By Phone This Holiday
Forget about calling it “Cyber Monday,” the big digital shopping day of the holiday season might be more appropriately called “Mobile Monday.”HP’s TouchPad: The Tablet That Refused to Die
A new deal bundling HP’s TouchPad tablet with its PCs is probably the device’s last hurrah. For real this time.A 4.3 Million Mac Quarter for Apple?
Apple is headed toward another record-breaking quarter for Mac sales. That’s the indication from the latest NPD retail data, anyway.News Byte