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Apple CEO Jobs Suffering from ‘Hormone Imbalance’
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said today (Monday) that he is being treated for a “hormone imbalance” that has caused him to lose an inordinate amount of weight—but he’ll be staying on as CEO, reports MarketWatch.
Jobs’s statement, directed at the “Apple Community,” comes a day before the keynote address he would have delivered at Macworld had he not pulled out late last year—triggering speculation about...
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Q4 and Holiday Online Retail Sales Decline
Online retail spending reached $25.5 billion during the holiday season’s e-commerce period—Nov. 1 to Dec. 23 (the last day to purchase online with the possibility of delivery by Christmas Eve)—or a decrease of 3% versus the corresponding shopping days in 2007, according to comScore.
comScore had expected year-over-year sales to be flat, said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni.
“This marks the...
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NY Governor Proposes ‘iPod Tax,’ Targets Sugary Drinks
Hoping to both eliminate the state’s $15 billion budget gap and add $1.3 billion in revenue to create a $121.1 billion budget, New York Governor David Paterson is proposing a tax on music and other online downloads as well as beverages, writes the Associated Press.
Among the 88 products/services targeted for increased fees or taxes are movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars,...
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Wal-Mart to Sell iPhones in December
Two Apple iPhone models will be sold at Wal-Mart stores in December, and employees are now being trained to sell the device, according to sources in various California Wal-Mart stores, Bloomberg reports.
Wal-Mart would become the second retail chain to carry iPhones, after Best Buy became the first in September.
Wal-Mart may have the phones in stock the day before Christmas, according to one...
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E-Commerce Sales Since Cyber Monday Up 9% from Year Ago
For the five days beginning with December 1 (Cyber Monday), the kick-off to the heaviest part of the online shopping season, sales totaled $3.74 billion, up 9% versus the same period a year ago, according to comScore.
Moreover, holiday e-commerce sales finally caught up to last year’s levels as two workdays in the past week surpassed $800 million in online spending: Monday, December 1 (Cyber...
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iPod Shortage on Reseller Channels
Apple’s iPod touch and iPod nano are proving to be too popular for Apple to handle, as many of its distribution channels have backlogs of customers requests, writes CNET.
The shortage was first noted on Amazon.com, where the iPod touch was out of stock soon after Black Friday, with lead times of 11 days for the 8 GB model and 3-5 weeks for the 16GB.
Other third-party sellers, including...
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Apple’s Part-Time Retail Workers Take Brunt of Cost-Cutting Plans
Foreseeing a difficult couple of months in retail sales, Apple plans to cut costs by shuffling the staff in its retail unit, where nearly half (15,900) of the company’s 32,000 employees are located.
About 3,000 of Apple’s employees are part-time workers or contractors; though it’s not clear how many of them work in the retail segment, many are used as “Specialists” who greet customers at the...
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Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday: Shoppers Searching for Best Holiday Deals
Cyber Monday seems to be gaining steam, with 26% of respondents intending to shop on the Monday after Thanksgiving, up from 20% saying so in 2007, according to a Maritz Poll.
However, 41% of respondents say they will shop on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, slightly more than the 37% who said so in 2007, Maritz found.
Gen Y* (53%) and Gen X (46%) are more likely to shop Black Friday...
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Wal-Mart to Sell iPhone—After Christmas
Wal-Mart plans to offer the iPhone 3G in select stores three days after Christmas, according to Boy Genius Report.
An internal document, sent to sales associates to prepare them for Dec. 28, confirmed the rumor.
About 2,500 Wal-Mart locations will carry the iPhone 3G, and 69 Wal-Mart subsidiary Sam’s Club locations will offer the iPhone on the 28th. (Sam’s Club kiosks in the larger stores will...
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Scholastic, QVC Fastest on the Wild, Wild Web
Response time for Scholastic.com in October averaged 1.09 seconds, bumping it up from its No. 2 position in September to lead the 50 largest e-retailers, according to website performance data from Gomez (via Internet Retailer).
QVC.com followed closely with a response time of 1.13 seconds. Avon.com averaged 1.19 seconds, and Dell came in fourth at 1.27 seconds.
ColdwaterCreek.com,...
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