Cyber Monday

As holiday sales expand, discounts are less important than the ritual of shopping. One winner: Cyber Monday.

Retailers are using what they learn online to sell you stuff in the store.

Hint: Soon.

Companies say it's a morale booster and ensures that workers don't take the day off to shop at home.

Cyber Monday can offer windfalls to hackers as well as shoppers, and even though our space travel ability is improving, we still use plenty of simple technologies to push it forward.

Branded shopping days clutter the week that starts on Thanksgiving eve. With so many gimmicks, what’s the value of each one?

Before smartphones or super fast at home Internet, millions of Americans would return from their Thanksgiving weekends to high-speed Internet at work and get busy shopping.

Today is Cyber Monday, and it follows on the tails of a very promising Black Friday sales weekend. But what do customers, and companies, have to lose from the surge in mobile shopping?