Overall e-commerce — covering both retail and travel websites – took a recessionary hit in 2009 when online sales registered a first-ever year without growth, according to a report released today by ...

Sears.com has expanded its online offerings substantially by selling third-party products in a move similar to other major Internet retailers. As a result, customers now have access to more than 10 million products ...

Holiday online sales for November and December reached $29.1 Billion, a 4 percent increase versus the same period in 2008, according to a final report by comScore, the digital marketing research firm. Highlights ...

Boosted by consumer electronics, online sales from Nov. 1 through Christmas Eve increased 5 percent over last year, reported Internet research firm comScore. The increase is welcome news for credit card issuers ...

eBay reported that holiday volume on its iPhone and other mobile phone applications tripled compared to last year, with 1.5 million items purchased worldwide. Nearly 6 million people are carrying access to eBay ...

Snowstorms this past weekend helped boost online sales 13 percent over the pre-Christmas weekend last year, and the holiday season to date has seen a 4 percent increase, according to an update today on Internet ...

Holiday shoppers will spend $723 on average, down 15 percent compared to last year, said Discover Financial Services in its annual survey. Last year, shoppers spent $831 on average, and $896 in the 2007 survey. This ...

Cyber Monday was a success for online retailers with an 8 percent increase in visitor traffic over last year, according to the National Retail Federation, the largest retail trade group. Some analysts issued reports ...

A national retail group projects that 96.5 million online shoppers will take to the keyboards on today’s Cyber Monday, up 19 percent from last year. The survey by shop.org, a unit of the National Retail Federation, ...

Major credit card issuers are offering extra reward points, promotional websites and online comparison shopping tools in an all-out blitz to grab the biggest share of Cyber Monday sales and beyond. And they may ...