holiday shopping

In this week’s EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the Yahoo rumor mill, the holiday shopping season on tech land and the Mumbai terror attacks and Twitter.

First the Yahoo rumor mill. The latest is that former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller is trying to raise a few billion to take Yahoo private.

Yeah right.

Retailers and manufacturers were closely watching to see if online orders could keep pace with sore sales or if this holiday shopping season would slip to the weakest in years.

Black Friday was not as bad as many retailers had expected. One estimate shows American shoppers spent 3 percent more on the first day of the holiday shopping season than last year.

To find out how some retailers did, we check in with a high-end mall in a St. Louis suburb, an outlet mall in San Marcos, Texas and online retailer in Boston.

AP - Asian stock markets were mixed Monday as investors digested signs that the U.S.

The Thanksgiving weekend was all right, according to ComScore and the National Retail Federation. Predictions for the entire holiday shopping season aren't so rosy.

The US holiday shopping season gets off to an encouraging start, with sales on the day after Thanksgiving up 3% on last year.

Stores were covered with red sales signs on Black Friday, as anxious retailers dug deep to give reluctant shoppers big discounts at the start of the critical holiday shopping period.