For years, police departments have given video surveillance tapes to local television news channels in their efforts to attract attention and fight crime. These days, a handful of police departments are turning to YouTube. One of the most sensational success stories came after Detective Sergeant Jor...
Most consumers wouldn't think of paying for an item and leaving a store without it, but that's essentially what's happening with about 10 percent of the gift cards sold each year to the public. "We estimate the overall raw volume in gift cards this year to be (US)$80 billion," Brian Riley, senior an...
During 2006, Enron executives were sent to jail for their role in the corporate scandal that rocked the U.S. and brought about sweeping regulatory reforms meant to protect investors and raise the bar among corporation. In passing Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress hoped to avoid such high-level corporate scan...
Online retail innovation and a cutting-edge customer experience are no longer the sole domain of a few retail pure-plays and multi-channel pioneers with hundreds of millions of dollars to invest. With recent forecasts from Forrester Research predicting that U.S. online retail revenues will top the ...
The world's best manufacturing companies have found that through the integration of product development, sales and marketing, including channel forecasting, procurement and production, synchronization results that can strengthen sales, channel and marketing operations. Taking this a step further, i...
No doubt there will still be lines outside of malls and department stores early in the morning on Black Friday, long the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season. But as the busiest stretch of the year for retailers gets under way, there are more signs that retailers themselves believe the ...
Government -- and industry -- executives are moving forward with plans to increase the use of authentication technologies, and prevent fraud online. The Direct Marketing Association, based in Chicago, two weeks ago issued a set of rules for its members, and the federal government, a few days earlier...
Lurking behind that spooky haunted house -- whether it be next door or at the local amusement park -- are embedded computing devices and other bits of engineering magic that, while not the highest tech gadgets on the market, sure come in handy when the Jedis, ninjas, princesses and witches come arou...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a triple-digit loss today as investors dumped shares on worries that the corporate earnings season would shape up as a disappointment. Despite a strong quarterly performance from Apple and others, profit warnings and full earnings reports have shown weakness i...
In a move to grab a larger share of consumer appliance sales, the world's largest home improvement retailer announced plans today to expand its store-based home appliance business onto the Web. Home Depot is launching a new online initiative that allows consumers to purchase more than 1,800 products...
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