Best Buy is spicing up its Black Friday deals with a variety of early morning Doorbuster items. The Doorbuster pricing begins in stores at 5am on Friday November 27th while the dispensing of Doorbuster ticketing will begin as early as 3am for select items. Also, Best Buy will be lowering online prices for Black Friday sale items and Doorbusters items on
Category: Computing
Hewlett Packard’s Profits are Up 14 Percent
Hewlett-Packard Co.’s profit jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter, helped by cost-cutting and better results from its technology services division.
Those factors helped offset the fact that four of HP’s major divisions — personal computers, servers, software and printers — each reported big revenue declines from last year. HP’s overall revenue fell 8 percent.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Get Extensions from Walmart, Target, and Others
Retailers 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 Weeks.
Target, Walmart, Toys R Us and others will be running online sales throughout the holiday weekend, with additional sales on Nov. 30, or Cyber Monday. J.C. Penney will offer online sales for items such as clothes and electronics on Monday and Tuesday, and Walmart.com will offer deals starting Monday through Dec. 4.
Google Looks to Teracent for Display Advertising
Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web.
The acquisition of Teracent Corp., a 3-year-old startup, provides Google with more tools for customizing the online billboards known as display advertising.
Microsoft Looking to Buy Fox, Others Away from Google Deals?
Software giant Microsoft has proven its serious about trying to take on Google in both the Internet search and online advertising arenas, first through its abortive hostile attempt to take over Yahoo, launching its own comprehensive Internet search engine in Bing, and then making a ten-year search deal with Yahoo to have Bing handle Yahoo’s searching. Now, it seems Microsoft is looking to increase Bing’s visibility and erode Google’s market share at the same time, potentially by buying out some of Google’s high-profile search partners.
AOL Baffles with New Brand and Logo
AOL is on the verge of being cut loose from corporate parent Time Warner to become an independent company focused on delivering online content and services—and today the company revealed part of its new logo and branding strategy designed to separate the “new” AOL from its previous corporate icons. And the new designs are certainly raising some eyebrows: the new logos eschew capital letters (and even legibility) in an effort to graphically portray AOL as a dynamic, fluid, and youthful organization.
Global Climate Summit E-mails Hacked and Leaked
A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month’s global climate summit in Denmark.
Kevin Trenberth, of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Colorado, said he believes the hackers who stole a
Dell Profits Decline in Q3 2009
The computer market has been through a very tough year with consumers and businesses simply not buying due to the poor economy. This has led to some heavy losses for some in the computer industry. The economy is slowing starting to come back and the launch of Windows 7 is expected to drive some upgrades in the 2010.
Sony’s Online Service Tries to Build Brand Loyalty
Sony’s new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.
Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai said the service, set for launch next year, highlights an advantage that Sony has over rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. and other manufacturers that don’t produce their own content. Sony’s business empire spans gaming, electronics, movies and music.
