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Move Over Cyber Monday, Make Room for Sofa Sunday
This year, even more people shopped online on Christmas Day, fueled, perhaps, by finding change in the couch cushions — or, more likely, receiving gift cards in their stockings. Either way, consumers...
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A Banner Black Friday for Some Disappoints Groupon and Other Daily Deal...
Groupon and the other daily deal providers saw sales tank during the week of Thanksgiving, unlike traditional retailers, which reported robust sales surrounding the holidays. Daily deal industry...
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E-Commerce Will Grow Again This Holiday, but Don't Thank Mobile or Social
Online shopping should be a bright spot during the holidays this year, with sales expected to grow by 20 percent compared to 2011. But it’s not what you may think. Sales are forecast to increase...
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The Latest Long Apple Line: Developers Waiting for App Approval
Complaints are coming from some developers that Apple’s App Store approval process has slowed recently, with wait times running up to three weeks. cdrin / Shutterstock.com The drawn-out process is...
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Groupon's Not Trying to Become Amazon, but Andrew Mason Says Products Are Key
Do you need a new wireless router? Or maybe you want a silk duvet or a faux leather jacket. Well, if you act fast enough, there’s a chance you can buy them for 50 percent off on Groupon. The Chicago...
View ArticleStores Bring Black Friday to the Web
As retailers gear up for the traditional shop-fest known as Black Friday, they are focusing on the mobs that line up outside stores and — increasingly — on the masses that shop online from home. Chain...
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Food for Thought: Apps That Indulge Your Inner "Top Chef"
This week, Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season. It’s time to eat, drink and be merry. Okay, who are we kidding: It’s time to frantically cook, worry about what drinks to serve, and feel utterly...
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Something to Be Thankful For: Brett Bullington's Recovery Path Is Made by...
Late last week, I made my way down to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center to visit Brett Bullington, the always energetic and ebullient Silicon Valley exec and investor. He had gotten into a serious...
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Nintendo's Long Lines Extend From the Store to Software Downloads in the Home
Nintendo has confirmed that the Wii U’s software patch that is necessary to access most of the game console’s online features will take more than a hour for customers to download. Additionally, the...
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HP Is in a Jam and Please Pass the Gravy: Top 10 Tips for Talking Tech This...
We at AllThingsD have put together a list of digestible, dinner-table-conversation topics to get you through Thanksgiving Day. Bon appetit! 1. First, demonstrate that you know the difference between...
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Traditions Die Hard: Most Consumers Start Online Holiday Shopping at Amazon
Just as people eat turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving, it’s becoming a tradition for consumers to go to one place to kick off their holiday shopping. In a recent survey, more than...
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A Not-So-Happy Thanksgiving From Larry David (Video)
The staff of AllThingsD is taking the day off today to test postprandial somnolence with the turkey-and-tryptophan thing, but we leave you with this very funny video from Funny Or Die by the...
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Mobile Thursday? Smartphone Shopping Is Still Tiny, But It's This Year's Big...
In what has become an annual holiday tradition, those who keep track of these things have started in on touting just how digital the holiday shopper has become, whipping out all manner of buzzwords to...
View ArticleTurkey Shoot on Instagram (In Related "News," People Still Love Pie!)
People love posting pictures of their food … blah, blah, blah. So, no surprise, the photo-sharing service Instagram rushed out the “news” that it had its busiest day so far, when users posted more than...
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We're Holiday Shopping Online With iPads for iPads
With all the hyped hullabaloo around just how mobile-icious we are this holiday season — yes, it’s up, but it is also a retailer-cooked trend that reporters grab onto amid the news drought of the...
View ArticleEarly Sales Pay Off, for Now
Retailers reported a big jump in consumer spending over the Thanksgiving weekend as shoppers flocked to stores, snapped up online discounts and, according to some merchants, paid repeat visits to the...
View ArticleCyber Monday Spending Hits $1.5 Billion, Shatters U.S. Record
Cyber Monday spending hit $1.5 billion in the U.S. to make it the biggest shopping day in history, according to comScore, which tracks purchases made on computers using broadband connections. The firm...
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Andrew Mason Gets an Early Present -- It's Not His Job (Although He Got That,...
A hot topic of conversation at Groupon’s board meeting yesterday was whether Andrew Mason is the right person to lead the company. While I have already spelled out a number of reasons why he might be...
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#HungryGames: The White House's Annual Turkey Pardoning Goes Social
Let’s talk turkey for a moment. For the past two decades, U.S. presidents have used Thanksgiving week to name an official “National Turkey.” And now the POTUS wants to take it online. Call it the...
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Buying a Videogame Console on Black Friday? Here's What You Need to Know.
Love it or hate it, Black Friday is effectively a “real” holiday in America these days. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the busiest shopping day of the holiday season, but it’s when many major...
View ArticleWe're Taking the Day Off to Eat Too Much
On the AllThingsD list of things we’re thankful for, one is a day off that features food. So, barring an outbreak of major news or a flash of irresistible inspiration, we will not be posting today as...
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Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday "Sale": Everything Costs $5 More
With pre-“Black Friday” sales starting well in advance of Thanksgiving, and some carrying all the way through to the Monday after, online holiday sales are already a joke. But the makers of the popular...
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Facebook Testing Timehop-Like Feature to Surface Past News Feed Posts
Grufnik/FlickrFacebook is getting the slightest bit more nostalgic. The company is trying out a new feature inside of the News Feed that lets users surface old Facebook posts from their Timeline....
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