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.
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The smartphone market is seeing a rapid growth as new devices are being released every now and then. Apart from the advanced specifications, the manufacturers are increasing the screen size of smartphones.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Pozen, Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Yahoo, Infosys, and Research In Motion. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: ASM International, ARM Holdings, Randgold Resources, ASML Holding, and Rediff.com India.
Following are the top Black Friday deals offered by various leading retailers on video games and consoles.
A few common thoughts to consider before you buy.
Microsoft's mobile operating system, Windows Phone, now has around 40,000 apps as more and more smartphone makers pair with the tech giant to run their new devices. So far, Nokia is perhaps the biggest manufacturer to pair with Microsoft, but Samsung and HTC both have some nice devices running the year old system.
Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company, may be preparing for a renewed bid for troubled search engine Yahoo. Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo was rejected in 2008.
Hewlett-Packard, the No. 1 computer company, will phase out an older Intel chip on high-end servers in favor of a newer one. Besides offering more power, another goal could be to battle rival Oracle.
Kenneth Kies sizes up the chances of reforming the convoluted U.S. tax code like someone who has lived through it before. In fact, he has.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: TiVo, Novellus Systems, Casual Male Retail Group, Canadian Solar, and Applied Materials. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Diamond Foods, Netlist, Gulfport Energy, Sangamo Biosciences, and Expedia.
WASHINGTON (TheWrap.com) - The Stop Online Piracy Act might be stopped before it ever gets online, as yet another influential voice has come out against it.
After President Barack Obama's commitment this month to a transpacific free trade agreement, business leaders in Europe and United States are asking for a similar initiative across the North Atlantic to spur economic growth and create jobs.
Facebook is said to be teaming up with smartphone maker HTC to develop an Android based phone codenamed Buffy. But there is also a rumor (started by an industry analyst) that Amazon is poised to get itself into the smartphone business, possibly one running the Microsoft system. These two Internet powerhouses could be facing off in the smartphone arena if Buffy and the Kindle Phone come to fruition.
Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Intel are members of the Business Software Alliance, which announced Monday that it no longer supports the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Intel's (INTC) stock has broken out of a four-month range-trading pattern to trade at/near $23.50. Is there more upside ahead with Intel?
Google's minimalist Chromebook laptops are now just $300 for the Wi-Fi only Samsung models, and that puts them right in the netbook champion ThinkPad X120e's territory. The Chromebook is a bit less expensive, but it's not as fully featured as the ThinkPad either. Chromebook is like the simplest tablet computer, but it has a keyboard and looks like a laptop.
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.).
Black Friday is all about finding the best deals, and the Samsung Focus Flash and HTC Wildfire S are two of the best deals on smartphones this year. They aren't being sold at discount prices, it's just that they don't have the features to keep up with the main big ticket smartphones. They are both available for under $100, however, and you still get plenty of tech gadgetry in either one.
America may seem to be at the forefront of innovation and technology, but when it comes to credit card payment systems, we're still a step behind.
Corporate IT managers don’t have clue about their employees’ mobile devices and how they could potentially kidnap proprietary information, Citrix VP Elizabeth Cholawsky told IBTimes.
Droid Razer will be a top seller during the Black Friday rush, but if you're heading out to the doorbuster and bargain sales, the Samsung Focus S is worth checking out. It's $100 less than the Razr, but has a 4.3 Super AMOLED Plus screen for super bright colors and eye-popping contrast. This is classic Samsung tech, and it's the type of display seen on other high-end devices like the Samsung Galaxy S2.
