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More Holiday Shopping Goes Online
Dec 23 (Reuters) – U.S. online shopping rose 15.4 percent to $36.4 billion for the holiday shopping season, a MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse report showed on Thursday. Online sales registered double-digit growth in six out of seven weeks since Oct. 31, SpendingPulse said. "Today eCommerce accounts for a much larger share of overall retail sales compared…
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Price a Key Concern for Holiday Tech Shoppers
Holiday shoppers had price on their minds when buying technology products this year, a survey from ABI research finds. The survey, conducted in August, asked 2,000 consumers what their technology purchasing plans were for the next six months–a period that included the high-traffic holiday season. It found that shoppers put price first when it came…
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Fujitsu Plans $1.2B Cloud Investment
Dec 24 (Reuters) – Fujitsu Ltd (6702.T), Japan’s leading IT vendor, will invest more than $1.2 billion in cloud computing services next financial year, its president said Friday. Fujitsu is looking for new products and services as it tries to counter a crimp on corporate and public spending on new IT services amid weak economic…
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Dell Buys InSite One for Medical Image Storage
Dell has announced it will buy InSite One, the developer of a medical archiving cloud application to make it easier for physicians to share medical images and make quick diagnoses by collaborating on images online. Terms of the Dec. 22 agreement were not disclosed. The deal will combine InSite’s InDex Vendor-Neutral Enterprise Archive (VNA) cloud-based…
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Innovation Forces to Drive Successful IT Investment: Gartner
Companies crawling out of spending caps and recessionary thinking have a lot of work to do to prepare as a growth economy re-emerges, according to Gartner Inc. And, the big-name analyst firm is handing out tips for driving innovation in information infrastructure for those ready to harness the power and renewed opportunity of the coming…