IBM reports that online shopping on Black Friday returned good profits, with growth being expressed in double digits figures. IBM’s third annual Black Friday Benchmark Report analyzes the online retail sector and each segment.  Generally speaking, IBM’s online sales have grown by 15.9 percent, with consumer spending averaging $170-190 per order. As far as luxury ...

Mapping the usage of the internet by the average income in American households, the Pew Research Center study indicates that higher income houses are more inclined to use the web for reading the daily news, paying bills, or for entertainment purposes. A striking  95% of  above-medium income houses that use the internet on a daily ...

During The Nielsen Company’s Consumer 360 event held in New Delhi, the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India had the chance to present the evident shifts if the Indian population through a marketing perspective. Nandan Nilekani has also pointed out four critical changes that are taking place currently in India that could be used ...

Zynga and Playdom reached an agreement following the settlement of the lawsuit filed by Zynga in 2009. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. In September 2009, Zynga Game Network Inc. took Playdom and four former Zynga employees to court on grounds of having disclosed trade secrets and business strategy. In June 2010, Zynga ...

Mapping the usage of internet depending on the average income in American households, Pew Research Center study indicate that higher income houses are more inclined to use internet for reading the daily news, for paying the debts or entertainment. The striking percentage of 95% of over medium income houses that uses internet on a daily ...

According to Kik’s blog, BlackBerry has frozen the downloading service for the instant messaging application.  Also, the smartphone manufacturer has blocked access to the BlackBerry Software Development Kit and Signing Keys. There seems to be no clear reason for this measure, as Kik is reporting to have offered specific solutions to battery life and privacy ...

When it comes to reliability for publishers wanting to monetize their apps, Apple seems to be the winning solution, despite increasing interest for Android-powered tablets. Android’s system specific to tablets are limited because of the large display variety, and moreover Google is still sub-par when it comes to the implementation of the Android Market Store ...

During the Thanksgiving holiday, there’s plenty of gratitude and cheer to go around.  EpicThanks, a non-profit organization is helping to raise money through Twitter for charitable causes. 2010 is going to be their second year running their Tweetsgiving campaign, after a successful event last year, which led to the building of two classrooms and a ...

A survey study released from Xobni, an email inbox management tool, says that many of us plan on checking our email through the holidays. The online study was carried out during November, and reveals that 59 percent of working American adults check their work emails during the traditional holidays.  About 79 percent of the survey ...

Brocade didn’t have good news in its latest earnings call, announcing earnings of $23.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, as compared to $32 million in the same quarter in 2009.  It’s good news for competitors like Hewlett-Packard, which announced profits of $ 2.54 billion for the fourth quarter of 2010 and $2.41 billion ...