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Record Online Shopping Brings New Meaning to “Holiday Stress”

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 22, 2011 at 4:33 pm PT

No big disasters have been reported yet this holiday, but there are signs that record-breaking online sales are starting to take their toll on retailers and shippers.

Sears’s Softer Side Includes iPads and Free Wi-Fi

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 17, 2011 at 2:00 pm PT

Sears has joined Lowe’s, Home Depot and other major retailers in rolling out iPads and iPods to assist employees in stores nationwide.

Online Shopping on the Side

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on September 7, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT

Walt reviews Digital Folio, free software that lets you gather online shopping products to compare retailer prices.

Sears Launches Movie-Download Service With Sonic Solutions

Tess Stynes, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 28, 2010 at 12:17 pm PT

Sears Holdings Corp. has launched its online movie download service, Alphaline Entertainment, allowing Sears and K-Mart customers to download movies the same day they are released on DVD.

Woof: EBay Is Winning Bidder for Milo

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 2, 2010 at 12:46 pm PT

EBay has acquired Milo as a way to add physical retail locations into its e-commerce strategy. Milo’s database of products from 50,000 U.S. retail stores, like Best Buy, Sears and Target, will be integrated into the San Jose-based company’s search results to provide local shopping alternatives.

ABC Sees Success in iPad App

Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 14, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

ABC is the only television network so far to offer an application for watching its shows free–with ads–on Apple Inc.’s new iPad tablet computer, and it says its business model is proving fruitful. The network said that in the 10 days since the iPad’s debut, its TV-show watching app has been downloaded 205,000 times, giving the Walt Disney Co. unit a presence on nearly half the 450,000 devices that Apple says it has sold.

Google to Create World’s Largest Searchable Archive of Arguments Against Google Books

John Paczkowski in News on September 11, 2009 at 8:07 am PT

Add another name to the list of opponents of the Google Book Search Settlement: Marybeth Peters, U.S. Register of Copyrights. In testimony before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Thursday, Peters tarred the deal as “fundamentally at odds with the law” and villainized Google, saying the company is making a “mockery” of the copyright protections in the U.S. Constitution.

Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up. What Does That Mean?

Peter Kafka in Media on December 3, 2008 at 5:34 am PT

Web traffic to the top online shopping sites jumped 10 percent on Cyber Monday compared to last year, says Nielsen Online. So what does that mean? Nothing, really: Assuming the data are accurate, we still don’t know how much people actually spent, and what they spent it on. We’re likely get a few more pieces of the puzzle today, when/if comScore comes out with its online commerce numbers. But the most important data are still locked away in retailers’ databases, and that stuff won’t be public for some time.