E-Commerce

As retailers and industry analysts watched online sales rise on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Tealeaf tuned into Twitter to see if conversations stayed merry and bright or if consumers' online shopping experiences turned them into grinches.

High-end cookware retailer Williams-Sonoma has created a successful recipe for multi-channel marketing.

Amazon has launched a new feature in the U.S. that brings content from Wikipedia pages to its own servers in a new project that appears to be called Shopping Enabled Wikipedia Pages.

The Cyber Week party has come to an end, and retailers and economists are now off to post the week’s best pictures. With nearly nine out of 10 retailers offering promotions during the long weekend, there are certainly plenty of snapshots to review.

“Cyber Monday kicked off the most recent work week with an all-time record of more than $1 billion in e-commerce spending, representing a strong 16-percent growth rate versus year ago,” said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni. “While we saw three more days during the week with at least $800 million in spending, growth rates slowed to single-digit levels following several weeks at about 13 percent."

Online shopping is set to reach an annual peak in the U.K. today as Britons splurge on Christmas gifts from “Toy Story 3” DVDs to Apple iPads, according to trade organization Interactive Media in Retail Group.

Most the year is spent following a healthy diet, but when the holidays approach, many people indulge themselves in otherwise forbidden treats.

"Mobile" is so early 2010. The end of the year has already brought two investments — and possibly a third — by major tech companies in the latest hot e-commerce topic: local shopping.

Annual analysis released from ForeSee Results suggests that retailers have reason to be cautiously optimistic about the upcoming holiday season.