MARKETING

Online retail sales in Europe are set to rise 18 percent to more than 200 billion euros ($271 billion) this year, outpacing growth at traditional shops as well as internet sales in the United States.

Google Inc is preparing to test a new prepaid coupon and offer service in a bid to better compete in the fast-growing market for local online advertising, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

With two major international sports events, 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, scheduled to be held in Brazil in the next five years, it’s high time the country should improve its “substandard” tourism infrastructure, according to the Brazil Tourism Report Q1 2011, released recently.

The United Nation World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) predicts, China would become world’s largest destination in the next five to seven years, thanks to the country’s diverse culture, heritage sites, and culinary art that has a strong hold on tourists.

TIM w.e., a Portuguese mobile and digital marketing company, is planning to list on New York's Nasdaq, three people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

U.S. online retailer Amazon.Com is to buy the 58 percent of British DVD and games rental firm Lovefilm it does not already own for an undisclosed price, it said on Thursday.

The local coupon company LivingSocial made headlines on Wednesday with a half-price Amazon gift card, the largest deal in the company's history.

I would like to change careers and was curious how I could have my volunteer experience be seen as actual work experience. For the past 9 years, I have been a financial counselor at a local hospital

Due to the new economy, businesses are closing in record numbers. When it comes to relatively small businesses, this means not only unemployment for the employees, but the owner as well.

Wondering why everyone on Twitter and Facebook are feeling blue today? Well, it is the third Monday of the year or the first month of January, which makes January 17, 2011 the 'blue monday', supposedly the most depressing day of the year.

LOS ANGELES - The social gaming market is expected to pass $1 billion this year, thanks to a rising number of users and a projected increase in advertising, according to research group eMarketer.

U.S. retail sales rose 4 percent in the 2010 holiday selling season and should rise 2.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, a group that measures customer traffic in retail locations said on Monday.

Shoppers will continue to spend more this year, spurred by a slowly improving job market and an uptick in income, but enough shoppers are still struggling with their finances that any increase will be modest, a retail industry expert said.

The latest Sounscan numbers show that music sales continue their downward spiral with fewer artists touchning the platinum mark

Research firm comScore said online spending in the United States rose 12 percent to $32.6 billion for the entire November-December 2010 holiday shopping season, thanks to an exceptional Cyber Monday and the impact of free shipping.

Several top U.S. retailers missed Wall Street's high expectations for December sales as a paralyzing post-Christmas blizzard on the East Coast slowed what had been a two-month shopping spree.

Retailers have not recouped all of the $1 billion in sales postponed by shoppers as they dug out from last month's East Coast blizzard, research firm ShopperTrak said on Wednesday.

A merry holiday e-shopping brings cheer for a depressed US economy

Online discount coupon provider Groupon Inc is working toward a potential public offering of its common shares by the end of 2011, the New York Times said, citing people briefed on the matter.

Pending home sales climbed again in November, with the broad trend over the past five months indicating a gradual recovery into 2011, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

Online spending in the United States rose 13 percent to almost $31 billion till date this holiday shopping season compared with the year-ago levels, according to research firm comScore.