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Lida Orzeck co-founded her intimate apparel company 33 years ago. Last year she finally took the company online to retail customers.

Cyber Monday reached $1.028 billion in online spending, up 16 percent versus a year ago, representing the heaviest online spending day in history and the first to surpass the billion-dollar threshold.

Bookseller Alibris has launched a mobile website for smartphone and iPad users. The site is designed to let students on the go compare textbook prices and to expand the reach of independent bookstores, the company said. Alibris users can browse a catalog of about 120 million new and used books.

DDI has been heralding the latest retail store design ideas since 1988 and has become a trusted source for all things retail. When DDI first appeared 20 years ago, the market was right for a magazine that focused on the retail environment. DDI has grown to become the retail design resource for store design concepts and a trusted guide to retail design ideas. DDI carefully chronicles the changes and focuses on the things that generate a buzz the world over in the retail industry.

Sears is using multiple mobile channels, from commerce-enabled mobile websites and applications to QR codes, to enhance its multichannel holiday marketing strategy and drive sales.

Sixty-three percent of chief marketing officers at leading U.S. retailers say their 2010 holiday advertising and marketing budgets have remained flat, a continued trend from 2009 and 2008.

In a first for its in-store holiday toy catalog, Target has printed quick scan response codes that, when scanned, take smartphone users directly online.

We’ve all been there — navigating a site, filling up our shopping cart with holiday presents, clicking “checkout” in excitement, and then it hits us — a big shipping fee. Suddenly, Grandpa’s new slippers don’t seem like such a bargain.

NEW YORK -- Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. said Tuesday that its fiscal second-quarter loss narrowed to $12.59 million, or 22 cents a share, compared to a loss of $23.96 million, or 43 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Sales rose 64% to $1.9 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet Research had expected, on average, a loss of 7 cents a share on sales of $1.98 billion. New York-based Barnes & Noble also said it expects its comparable sales for the fiscal third quarter and full year to rise 75%, and forecast digital content sales of $400 million full-year