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The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Yahoo’s board will meet several times this week, during which the company’s directors will consider whether to sell Yahoo’s lucrative stake in Alibaba, the company’s core Internet business, or both.

This year, the Black Friday sales come in the context of weak retail revenues blamed in part on relatively warm weather that has discouraged cold-weather purchases.

After chaotic scenes at some stores on Black Friday last year, this year saw much calmer trading as more shoppers made a decision to hunt for bargains online. “That’s part of the reason we think Cyber Monday won’t continue to be the biggest online day going...

ShopperTrak is still projecting an increase of 2.4 percent in sales at brick-and-mortar stores for the full holiday season.

‘Cyber Monday has always been our biggest single day for sales but the growing success of Black Friday illustrates that it has become a much anticipated date as the nation prepares for the festive season’.

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and several other of the world’s wealthiest tech and business titans are banding together to fight climate change by investing billions in clean-energy research and technologies. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are launching the campaign...

That means that Amazon will either miss out on Saturday, Sunday and Cyber Monday, or have another event planned to kick off on the weekend following Black Friday. People doing early holiday shopping will still have a lot of company. Like most of the big Black Friday retailers,...

Tablet share of online sales declined this year, making up 15 percent of online sales on Thanksgiving, 13 percent on Black Friday, and 11 percent on Cyber Monday.

“If a minister was handed preliminary charges, he would no longer be part of the government”. If he is not, he has no place in the France team.

Jung Von Matt launched a holiday spot for German supermarket chain Edeka which has garnered its fair share of attention and controversy. In a sudden and very morbid plot twist, little ol’ grandpa kicks it and all his family finally come together again for the funeral.

He said accelerating government funding for clean energy research and development is crucial to attracting private investment.

China is being blamed for a cyber attack on Australias Bureau of Meteorology that may have compromised computer systems across the federal government, the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Springboard Insights and Marketing Director Diane Wehrle stated: “The volume of activity in retail stores over the Friday and Saturday of the Black Friday weekend is lower than a year ago and the evidence clearly points to the fact that much of this is due to a significant...

On average, 13 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report profit per share of C$1.16 for the quarter.

Zuckerberg revealed he and Chan had three miscarriages, and said he hoped talking about the experience would help others going through the same thing.