Circuit City Shuttering 155 Stores Electronics chain Circuit City is planning to close 155 stores across the country, cutting its workforce by 17%, the company said. Citing both the sluggish economy and waning consumer confidence, Circuit City also is slowing…
With the economy in flux and consumers concerned about the future, electronics stores are going to have to resort to combination deals and unusual pricing plans as they try to sell high-definition television sets and other electronics this holiday season….
Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech after winning the presidential election last night had earned more than 4.8 million viral video views 24 hours after the clip began to circulate online, according to data from online video measurement service Visible Measures….
CNN.com won the online news race on Election Day for TV networks, ranking as the most visited Web site on Nov. 4 among all TV network Web sites, with MSNBC.com second, said online audience measurement firm Hitwise. CNN.com’s traffic rose…
Like Comcast before it, AT&T will soon be limiting the amount of bandwidth its subscribers use each month for downloading, MediaPost reports. Starting this month, AT&T subscribers who pay $14.99 per month for speeds of 768 Kbps will be limited…
The Web sites of cable news networks MSNBC.com and CNN.com, as well as ABCNews.com, reported record-breaking traffic on Election Night, according to statistics released today. On Nov. 4, MSNBC.com generated nearly 250 million page views served up to more than…
A report by Solutions Research Group found most Hulu users are part of a coveted, hard-to-reach demographic, MediaPost says. Hulu users skew young, with an average age of 32, and are predominately males–who make up about two-thirds of Hulu’s audience….
Not only did Barack Obama come away with the election last night, he also tallied up more social media buzz during the last year, according to data from online tracking service Trendrr. Sen. Obama had the advantage in news mentions,…
Microsoft’s Silverlight software is shaping up as a challenger to Adobe’s Flash for providing Web sites with high quality graphics and video, USA Today says. Both Netflix and Blockbusters are using the Microsoft product to show movies online. “There’s no…