Cyber Monday News
How do you value cloud? How about "Spiky" and "Variable?" - ebizQ (blog)
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3PAR First to Deliver Autonomic Storage Tiering for High-End Arrays - CNNMoney.com (press release)
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Tougher Customers - InternetRetailer.com
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Tougher CustomersInternetRetailer.comConsumers were also deal-hunting early the following Monday, often called Cyber Monday because it's a big online shopping day. CyberMonday.com, a site ... |
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Amazon.com Failing To Deliver The Goods On Facebook, Twitter - Investor's Business Daily
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Activision Dials Down Guitar Hero Releases, Plus Possible Patent Problems - Co-Optimus.com
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How the Web Has Changed Us - CBS News
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Retail sales decline in Fort Collins - The Coloradoan
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Kids Shoe Deals - CNET
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Kids Shoe DealsCNETThat's tied with our mention from earlier this month as the lowest total price we've seen since Cyber Monday week, when it was $20 less. ...and more » |
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Page: A look at Web use - Newspapers and Technology
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Page: A look at Web useNewspapers and TechnologyThe single largest day for e-commerce was not "Black Friday" (the day after Thanksgiving) or even "Cyber Monday" (the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend) ...and more » |
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OfficeMax Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha (blog)
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Information on Cyber Monday:
The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, "Cyber Monday" symbolizes a busy day for online retailers, and one in which online stores offer low prices and promotions.
The term "Cyber Monday" is a neologism invented by the National Retail Federation's Shop.org division, and was never in common use within the ecommerce community before the 2005 holiday season. According to Scott Silverman, the Executive Director of the organization, the term was coined based on research revealing that 77% of online retailers reported a significant increase in sales the Monday after Thanksgiving in 2004. While the term "Cyber Monday" was created in November 2005, the mainstream media picked up the term and reported as if "Cyber Monday" had been a long-running concept, much to the surprise of the Internet community (who were quick to dismiss the claim). "Cyber Monday" is often associated with the unfounded belief that it is the busiest (highest sales volume) shopping day of the year for online retailers, because people would continue shopping while at work from the company's computer. (This is related to a similar unfounded belief for Black Friday, which is often misstated as the biggest "brick and mortar" retail sales day of the year.)
Ecommerce sites report that the busiest shopping days usually fall between December 5-15 in a given year. In 2005, the year the term Cyber Monday was coined, the busiest online shopping day of the year in the U.S. was actually December 12, two weeks after "Cyber Monday".
Some critics online and in the media have called for a boycott of the term, calling it a useless media buzzword with no basis in fact. Fark founder Drew Curtis critically mocks the term in his book It's Not News, It's Fark as a leading example of holiday-based "fluff journalism."
