Black Friday is a huge day for retailers – it is the first day of the official holiday shopping season, and also the first day of the greatest holiday deals and sales. Online and offline shops always score big in this period – this year Nintendo has surely scored big, considering the number of Nintendo [...]
Kinect for Xbox 360 soldone million units worldwide in 10 days and is on pace to hit five million by the end of the year. The announcement comes a week before the biggest selling day of the year, Black Friday, and in the wake of increasing momentum for Xbox 360, which led U.S. video game [...]
Windows 7 is a successful operating system – the fastest selling OS Microsoft has ever released, according to a statement released by the company. The success of the operating system has helped the Redmond giant to have profits even if the overall computer sales have not grown significantly over the last year. Windows 7 was [...]
Although greatly criticized, Apple’s iPad is a really successful product – successful enough to influence notebook sales worldwide. The iPad’s price is similar to that of the lower end PC’s, thus it is becoming more and more attractive for the clients in this segment. The iPad’s popularity caused many of Apple’s competitors to rush similar [...]
The new and improved Amazon Kindle e-reader, the latest generation of Amazon’s e-book reader gadget, is outselling all of its predecessors, according to the company’s representatives. The new generation of the Kindle has sold more in its first three weeks of availability than any Kindle version until now. The firs Kindle was released by Amazon [...]
The Apple iPad has reached the 3 million target sales! Since the iPad hit the stores, less than three months ago, Apple Inc. has received huge amounts of orders for the touch-screen tablet computer. The first 1 million was topped in the first month after the U.S launch, on April 3, and by May 31 [...]
U.S. sales of organic products continued to grow during 2009 despite the distressed state of the economy, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) revealed in releasing findings from its 2010 Organic Industry Survey. In fact, organic product sales in 2009 grew by 5.3 percent overall, to reach $26.6 billion. Of that figure, $24.8 billion represented organic [...]
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc.,announced that it is instructing Toyota dealers to temporarily suspend sales of eight models involved in the recall for sticking accelerator pedal, announced on January 21, 2010. “Helping ensure the safety of our customers and restoring confidence in Toyota are very important to our company,” said Group Vice President and [...]
EcoBoost(TM) engine technology is driving younger, more affluent customers to Ford showrooms. And many of these buyers are hot to trade in their competitive-make vehicles to get their hands on one equipped with the fuel-efficient direct-injection turbocharged EcoBoost engine. “EcoBoost technology is helping bring in a new customer to Ford dealer showrooms,” said Amy Marentic, [...]
SCHIP Law Will Tax Little Cigars at Cigarette Equivalent for First Time New data from the Maxwell Report indicates a dramatic increase in the use of cigarillos and little cigars over the past decade, a troubling trend given the popularity of these products with young adults (ages 18-25) and the African American community. According to [...]