Positive retail sales numbers in the month of October point to a good holiday sales season ahead. According to the National Retail Federation – the world largest retail trade association – October retail sales, excluding ...
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Chinese handset maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartwatch next year, making it the latest company to throw its hat into the emerging gadget segment. ZTE said on Monday that it was preparing the device, and pointed to the first quarter ...
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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching, analysts say the outlook for the busiest shopping days of the year will be challenging for most retailers facing aggressive competition and still-cautious shoppers. John D. Morris, Retail ...
NRF calculated retail industry job gains at 37,600 in October, and 295,000 year-over-year, a 2.4 percent increase over 2012. Job gains were seen in every retail sector with the exception of clothing and clothing stores, which witnessed a ...
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Now that Halloween is (almost) behind us, many people's attention will turn to Christmas shopping. How can packaging push shoppers' hot buttons? Will behaviors of early shoppers for the 2013 holiday season presage future holiday shopping ...
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Data recently released from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, showed overall strong global trade numbers for the month of September. U.S.-bound waterborne shipments in ...
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J. C. Penney Company, Inc. announced that it has teamed up with shopkick, the most widely used real-world shopping app that rewards shoppers for simply walking into stores. Just in time for the key holiday shopping season, JCPenney ...
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The bike industry likely will never tally all the delays and extra costs that resulted from the federal government shutdown that ended Thursday. Many shops lost sales as local federal workers were out of work, and many businesses dependent ...
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Apple's October launch for the new version to the iPad Mini is in jeopardy, as the high-resolution Retina displays for the device are not ready. The Cupertino, California-based firm's supply chain is starting production now on the ...
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Building off of a strong month in trade activity in July, data from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, showed that trend continuing into August. U.S.-bound waterborne ...
Zepol Corporation, a leading trade intelligence company, reported that U.S. imports in August are the second highest month for TEU (twenty-foot container) volume in 2013. The United States imported nearly 1.61 million TEUs in August, which ...
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BRAVADA International Ltd. announced it is bringing in the Back to School Season with over 1500 leggings and leg fashion styles. OnlyLeggings.com is the global online leader in providing the most innovative and fashion aware leg ...
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Samsung Electronics said its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 helped it to defy a shrinking smartphone market in the first quarter, boosting its overall profits by 42% from a year ago. The company said Friday its net profit was a record $6.4 billion ...
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Eight years after the first Xbox 360 units shipped, Microsoft will finally pull the curtains off its long-awaited successor on May 21. The company is holding a press event at 10 a.m. Pacific Time that day that will be live-streamed on the ...
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After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily designed ...
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