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Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., and other online commerce companies had a strong Black Friday, but the industry's growth rate lagged last year's surge in online buying on the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season.

Customers can avail an additional savings of 25 percent, if they use the code SAVE25 at checkout.

Stocks posted seven straight sessions of losses on Friday, ending the worst week in two months, as the lack of a credible solution to Europe's debt crisis kept investors away from risky assets.

Following are the top Black Friday deals offered by various leading retailers on video games and consoles.

From Alice in Wonderland to Cars, hundreds of Disney movies are now available for rent on YouTube, the Google-owned site announced on Wednesday.

Cyber Monday is around the corner and with it comes a number of sizeable discounts on a whole lot of gadgets. Several top-notch retailers offer the convenience of shopping online for exciting items. Other prominent retailers like Dell, ThinkGeek and Sony are also expected to offer deals for their products on their Web sites.

Family films are always a big part of the Thanksgiving box office equation, but this year multiplexes will be especially stuffed with the genre.

Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen star in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, a film that shows how psychoanalysts

In just over a month, the iPhone 4S has shot near the top of Flickr's Camera Finder, which tracks camera phone usage online, while the iPhone 4 has bested Nokia and Canon models to be the most popular camera on Flickr overall. As Annie Leibovitz and other photography greats take on the iPhone 4S, some worry traditional cameras are on the way out.

Google officially opened its new music store to the U.S. public on Nov.16, thereby putting the search giant's service in direct competition with Apple's iTunes and Amazon's MP3 services.

Black Friday week began this Monday and numerous best deal ads are already floating online, some offering early bird offers, free smartphones, deep discounts and others products at highly slashed prices.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top TV maker, is in last-stage talks with Google to roll out its Google TVs, the head of Samsung's TV division told reporters on Tuesday.

Sam's Club is offering its members some of the best in-store Black Friday 2011 deals on various items starting at 5 a.m. Friday, Nov. 25 and online starting at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23. in its annual Day After Thanksgiving Event (D.A.T.E.).

Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and the Sony Tablet S are two similar tablets that could be on many people's Black Friday shopping lists, so we lined them up to get a better idea of what separates them. Besides being a couple inches bigger than the Tab 7.0 Plus, the Sony Tablet S is shaped a bit different than most tablets

Best Buy is offering some of the hottest deals for Black Friday 2011 on electronics starting midnight Friday, Nov. 25 following Thanksgiving this week.

Academy Award-winning actor George Clooney is reportedly up for a possible role depicting the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming biographical film.

Didn't get your free copy of Battlefield 1943 with your pre-ordered copy of Battlefield 3? You're not alone. Some costumers are suing EA (Electronic Arts) for failing to live up to promotional deals for the hit video game, claiming the company never intended to fulfill their end of the deal and demanding their free copy of the game.

Warner Bros. signed a major film distribution agreement with LOVEFiLM, a major competitor to Netflix, who signed an agreement with Lionsgate earlier this week.

Google Inc unveiled a new online music store on Wednesday, in a move to challenge the dominance of market leaders Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc.

Two highly stylized devices have recently launched that have elevated the design aesthetics of mobile phones to a whole new level. Droid Razr is a marvel of thin design and a dazzling display, and the Xperia Arc S is an elegantly crafted model of technological wonder

It’s been a very “Minecraft” week. Minecon, the fan convention, kicks off Nov. 18, marking the release of the “final” version coming out. Now in a surprise move, developer Mojang will release the iOS version of the game Nov. 17.

Smartphones are evolving into mini portable computers that can do so many things, yet their small size has made it difficult to really ramp up the camera technology. That goes for pretty much everything in a smartphone, even the iPhone 4S. The small size is a challenge for many of the components, especially batteries.

According to the rumor mill the successor to the Xbox 360 could be some sort of cloud-gaming hybrid mixing physical discs with an online service. Analysts have been busy trying to figure out Microsoft's next move.

Mike Jones, who has grown several successful Internet companies from the ground up, has decided to help other start-ups get going with his new incubator and accelerator called Science.

Asian stock markets ended lower on Wednesday, as concerns about Europe’s debt crisis offset better-than-expected reports on U.S. economy Tuesday.

The strong showing of Immortals and Jack and Jill this weekend -- raking in a total of $57 million combined and beating expectations -- buoyed Hollywood's hope that young men were finally turning back to the cineplex.

Asian stock markets ended lower on Tuesday, as increased borrowing costs for Italy and Spain prompted fresh concerns that Europe could struggle to contain its debt crisis.

Columbia Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire the film rights to Evan Mandery's romantic novel Q, and will put the Pineapple Express team of writer/director David Gordon Green and producer Matt Tolmach in charge of the project, an individual close to the studio said.

The insight comes from New Zealand Amazon-like retailer, MightyApe, who listed God of War IV with an estimated release date of Sept. 28, 2012.