New online gift cards help The Container Store better target customers
Nov. 19, 2009 Multichannel retailer The Container Store this week began offering online gift cards that allow it to track and analyze the shopping behavior of c...

Compuware offers free e-retail site monitoring for post-Thanksgiving rush
Nov. 17, 2009 Compuware Corp. announced today that it will provide free web site performance monitoring during some of the busiest online shopping days of the year,...

ShopNBC will charge one shipping fee for all purchases in a day
Nov. 17, 2009 TV and web retailer ShopNBC hopes its new ValueShipping program will ring in the holiday season with bigger sales. With ValueShipping, shoppers are ab...

UPS expects a slight increase in holiday season shipments this year
Nov. 17, 2009 From Thanksgiving to Christmas, United Parcel Service of America Inc. expects to deliver about 400 million packages worldwide, with most of them in No...

Microsoft updates online store
Nov. 13, 2009 Microsoft unveiled is first bricks-and-mortar shop last month amid much fanfare, but it also made another move that got less ink. It beefed up t...

Shoebuy.com steps into mobile commerce with an iPhone app
Nov. 12, 2009 Getting into m-commerce before the holiday season stampede, Shoebuy.com has launched an iPhone app that lets shoppers search, browse, read reviews of ...

Yoox.com debuts a new iPhone app with style
Nov. 12, 2009 Fashion and home d?cor e-retailer Yoox.com has launched Yoox.com Style Gift Guide, a free iPhone app available through Apple Inc’s iTunes ...

Consumers embrace social shopping, new Deloitte survey reports
Nov. 12, 2009 Retailers have been focusing lately on how they can harness online social media to generate sales, and the latest consumer poll from consu...

New iPhone app allows shoppers to browse gift guides and buy items Nearby
Nov. 11, 2009 Just as the holiday shopping season has begun to take off, mobile concierge service NearbyNow has launched the NearbyNow Holiday Gift Guide, an ...

U.K. shoppers plan big migration to the web, new survey reports
Nov. 9, 2009 A huge majority of U.K. consumers plan to shop online for holiday gifts this year, says a survey commissioned by the London-based trade association Th...