Tag: black friday
Black Friday’s best year ever, reckons HookLogic
It may have started as a US import, but it seems that the Brits are finally embracing the Christmas shopping phenomenon. Black Friday 2016 saw more shoppers than ever before make purchases on major retail sites according to insights from performance marketing company HookLogic. Black Friday shoppers and purchasers were up 13.9% and 11.9% respectively,…
Yes it’s Cyber Monday. Currys PC World offers deals on JVC and LG TVs
This 32inch JVC LED TV is now just £119 The Christmas shopping season continues. Hot on the heels of the imported Black Friday bonanza comes Cyber Monday - another marketing invention, this one supposed to represent the biggest day of the year for online sales. Like most retailers, Currys PC World…
Currys PC World reports Black Friday sales up 40% on last year
Seems that Black Friday is working for some electrical retailers (what you mean it's Black Friday today, you should've mentioned it!). At least it seems to be working well for Currys PC World which his reporting its highest ever number of orders, up 40% on 2015, with over half a million visitors to the website pre-6am…
Xmas 2016: Top 10 tablets for kids and adults under £100
Looking for a cheap tablet this Xmas? Don't want to spend a fortune on the Apple iPad. Then you really have two options - either get an Amazon or get an Android tablet (there are also Windows tablets of course, but most of these like the Surface Pro 4 are hybrid devices which can also…
Smartphone spending fuels highest ever monthly online retail sales growth
Strong Black Friday sales help boost November online spend 40% month-on-month Sales made via a smartphone grow 97% year-on-year A record 32% of all m-retail sales were made from a smartphone in November Multichannel retailers record just a 4% YoY increase in sales, compared with online-only retailers at 24% The latest figures from the IMRG…
The Digest: FBI starts probe into Sony hack… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Sony Pictures calls out big guns to investigate hacking | BetaWired "Sony Pictures Entertainment has called out the big guns to investigate the hacking that has locked countless employees out of their networks, relying on FireEye’s Mandiant incident response team to clean house. Meanwhile, another security breach at Sony Pictures – though perhaps…
Country goes mad as “Black Friday” infects the UK
In its latest act of cultural imperial, America's so-called "Black Friday" sales have finally become A Thing in Britain. Forget the NFL matches at Wembley - it is the Wembley branch of ASDA that has seen people going nuts trying to buy stuff at a modest discount, with all of the gusto of our American…
Cyber Monday shunned in favour of last minute Christmas panic
It may have been hyped in the media as the UK antidote to Black Friday, but yesterday’s Cyber Monday was not the day when most Brits bought their Xmas gifts online. At least that’s according to a study of 2,000…
Black Friday Apple sale leads to discount iPad 2 deals
Apple have caught the Black Friday bug, which can only ever be a good thing for tech fans wanting to get their hands on some premium Cupertino gear on the cheap. Top of the deal list is a 16GB WiFi…
Amazon Black Friday deals now live in the UK
It may be a relatively clear, demon-free Monday morning, but that hasn't stopped Amazon setting free their annual Black Friday deals. Traditonally a US Thanksgiving tradition, the deals see Amazon cutting the price on plenty of stock for a…
