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A new service, Answers, has been launched by online coupon web site Savings.com. The new offering let users ask shopping related questions and get answers from others in real time.

Saturday, a lot of shoppers came back to malls searching for doorbuster deals, next year's Christmas gifts and, for most, gifts for themselves.

Recognizing shoppers would likely spend less this holiday season, vendors carefully managed inventory this Christmas. That resulted in some store shelves to be practically empty December 26.

Retailers made a push to woo gift-card-toting shoppers by cutting prices and offering doorbuster deals often reserved for the day after Thanksgiving.

New uses for mobile phones as technology advancements, spurred on by Apple’s iPhone, open up a host of new shopping opportunities are available for shoppers in Europe this Christmas. A host of new services that can deliver discount vouchers to phones, compare prices of vendors in a vicinity or direct shoppers to online stores are becoming easy to find and use, and they hold attractions for marketers as well as consumers.

Webroot, a leading Internet security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, and AnchorFree, the creator of Hotspot Shield, the world's most popular free virtual private network that keeps consumers safe online, today announced a partnership to deliver a new consumer security and privacy offering to a large segment of Hotspot Shield's 7.5 million users worldwide.

 Lightspeed Research, an online marketing company, released a study that shows 64% of Americans think it's annoying or crazy that stores have Christmas decorations up before Halloween.

American consumers shopped more for bargains at the start of the U.S. holiday season and spent significantly less than a year ago, according to early data released on Sunday.

Consumers said they will have spent nearly 8 percent less on average, or about $343 per person, over the weekend that includes U.S. Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and runs through Sunday, according to the National Retail Federation.

 Many economists and experts continue their lauding the achievements made to date that moved us forth from where we had been in the crisis. They say that the worst of the US recession is over now and improved reports in jobs, consumer spending and housing are taken as an index of recovery.

Discover card today announced a variety of ways Discover Cardmembers can take advantage of extra cash rewards when shopping this holiday season, including the opportunity to earn Double Cashback Bonus on all online purchases, as well as at department stores, jewelry and apparel retailers.