UPS (UPS) on Thursday launched a mobile app for Amazon.com (AMZN) Kindle Fire tablets. The new app lets customers track and ship their packages, find nearby UPS Store locations and manage shipments through My Choice, a service that lets consumers reroute and reschedule their shipments. The free app can be dowloaded in the Amazon Appstore. “We continue to see growth in the e-commerce market,” said Alan Gershenhorn, chief sales, marketing and
In an upbeat sign for e-tailers such as Amazon.com (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY), market tracker ComScore said Wednesday that e-commerce spending from desktop computers on so-called Green Monday rose 10% to $1.4 billion, making it the third-heaviest digital spending day of the holiday season so far. ComScore defines Green Monday as the Monday that falls at least 10 days prior to Christmas. EBay coined the term to refer generally to the second Monday in
Microsoft(MSFT) and Sony (SNE) have been waging a back-and-forth public relations battle to establish which company’s new video game console is more popular this holiday shopping season. With its latest press release, Microsoft basically admitted that it is not selling as many new consoles as Sony (SNE), but blamed production issues, not consumer demand. Microsoft (MSFT) announced Wednesday that it has sold more than 2 million Xbox One consoles to consumers in its first 18 days of availability. “Demand is exceeding supply in our 13 launch markets and Xbox One is sold out at most retailers,” Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate vice president of strategy and marketing for Xbox, said in a statement . The Microsoft press release included quotes from executives at retailers Amazon.com (AMZN), GameStop (GME) and Wal-Mart (WMT) supporting its claim that the Xbox One is a hot-selling product. On Dec. 3, Sony announced that it had sold more than 2.1 million PlayStation 4 consoles in the product’s first 16 days of availability. Like the Xbox One, the PS4 also is in short supply this holiday season. Sony launched its PS4 on Nov. 15 and Microsoft followed with the Xbox One a week