Technologizer

Microsoft’s Black Friday Black Eye

Monday, December 1, 2008

If Microsoft wants to become a serious Web competitor to Google it should stop tripping over its own feet. On Black Friday, it was offering more apologies than bargains after embarrassing technical glitches incapacitated the company’s Live Search Cashback, scuttling its initiative to gain a larger share of the search market by giving searchers discounts [...]

comScore: Black Friday Online Sales Up 1%

Monday, December 1, 2008

0 Comments

The US’s biggest retail shopping day of the year turned out fine after all, although the results were likely nowhere near as good as investors would have liked. While data shows brick-and-mortar retail sales were up 3 percent, online sales rose only 1 percent. comScore says that $534 million was spent by consumers online on Friday, [...]

Black Friday Turns Ugly. Genuinely Ugly.

Friday, November 28, 2008

7 Comments

Okay, I had some fun with my distaste for Black Friday earlier today, but this is serious stuff. A Wal-Mart employee was knocked to the floor by maniacal shoppers and killed today at a store on Long Island, in a riot that sent four other people (including a pregnant woman) to the hospital. (The crowd [...]

30 Reasons I Choose to Ignore Black Friday

Friday, November 28, 2008

4 Comments

Today, in case you hadn’t noticed, is Black Friday–America’s legendary shopping-day-of-all-shopping-days. The sales are unprecedented, the shopping hours are extended, and hey, it might even help nurse our battered economy back to health. But me, I may get through the day without buying anything more costly than a Diet Coke. I love saving money on [...]

PriceGrabber Survey Shows Grim Reality of Faltering Economy

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

3 Comments

While PriceGrabber is known more for its comparison shopping service, from time to time it conducts surveys of its user base to gauge consumer trends. It’s most recent survey took a look at consumer’s holiday shopping habits, and the results are not pretty. 71 percent of online consumers plan to spend less during the holiday, citing [...]

Not-So-Black-Friday Preview: Circuit City

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

2 Comments

Okay I’ll admit out of all the retailers that we’ve profiled so far for Black Friday, I was looking forward to Circuit City’s offerings the most. This is a company that is in some serious, serious trouble. As Harry has covered so well over the past few weeks, the major electronics retailer has filed for bankruptcy, [...]

Not-So-Black Friday Preview: Wal-Mart

Friday, November 14, 2008

1 Comment

Okay, so Best Buy didn’t exactly thrill us with its “doorbusters” and supposed Black Friday specials. So, will the mecca of American retail capitalism be able to do any better? From the looks of it, not really. According to a copy of a circular obtained by CNNMoney.com, here are the specials — and they look pretty [...]

Not-So-Black Friday Preview: Best Buy

Thursday, November 13, 2008

4 Comments

Looking for tech deals on Black Friday (which can you believe it is only two weeks away)? Technologizer will comb through all the announced deals to let you know where you should be freezing your you-know-what off on that oh so special day. Our first stop on our journey is our friends at Best Buy. Now [...]