Topic: Andrew Lipsman

The Cyber Monday Startup Blues

It's Cyber Monday, and after a record-breaking Black Friday, sales expectations run high. But for all the temptation to join the online-marketing...
Retailers stretch out online deals throughout holiday weekend, plan more for Cyber MondayRetailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber ...

Niche social sites seek growth under Facebook's shadow

BANGALORE (Reuters) - What do you do when you're a small online social network trying to compete against a behemoth like Facebook?The answer may be to try to carve out a separate path by becoming a niche website for a specific ...

Cyber Monday Sales Spike

Online retailers are cautiously upbeat after unexpectedly strong holiday sales earlier this week, though some say the gains won't prevent flat growth rates for the year, according to comScore.. James Bendle of Baby Earth, an online children's clothing store based ...

Facebook Goes After Spanish-Speaking Crowd

It's one thing to translate the site into Spanish," Facebook fired the latest shot Thursday with the launch of a Spanish-language version of its site. Chief rival MySpace, which is much larger than Facebook, already is available in 13 languages, including ...
As the holiday season wound down, U.S. residents kept on shopping significantly more than they did in 2006, particularly on the day after Christmas, but they also reported being less satisfied with e-tailers, according to a pair of studies.. Between Nov ...
Online shopping for the period Nov. 1 to Dec. 21 grew 19% from a year ago, to over $26 billion, according to data from comScore Networks. "We are continuing to see online spending strength as we get deeper into the season, with ...