Which retailers should fear Amazon showrooming? Placed’s new study tells all

A new study from the location analytics company Placed shows which retailers are most at risk for showrooming from Amazon customers -- and the results might surprise you.

Leap Motion’s tiny gesture controller lands exclusively at Best Buy

There's still no official release date, but Leap Motion has already scored a major deal for its long-awaited gesture control gadget with Best Buy.

Christmas 2012 shopping: paper catalogs whipped Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and Amazon is the new Google

I guess we're just not as advanced as we think we are. Or, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Amazon tops in customer satisfaction, as Apple slides out of the top 5

Amazon retained its industry-leading 88 percent satisfaction score from 2011 in the study, which asked more than 24,000 consumers about their online shopping experiences between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Big data: a retailer’s guide to likes, tweets, reviews, customer data, and basically everything else (infographic)

Many retailers are using old dumb marketing techniques in a new smart world. And, therefore, missing out on sales.

Shopify teams up with ShipStation to shave hours off delivery time (exclusive)

To give retailers a competitive edge, Shopify announced a partnership with ShopStation that promises to cut shipping time anywhere from a half to a third.

Apple tells retailers to stop selling the Galaxy Nexus and Tab

Apple is sending notices to retailers to stop selling Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1, a filing by Samsung revealed today.

Foss Patents reports that a filing by Samsung included a note about Apple sending out letters to third …

Makeup retailer Sephora launches iPad program (exclusive)

Beauty retailer Sephora is testing an iPad program in select stores this month, inspired by what it believes is a close relationship between its customers and Apple.

The iPads have been introduced to 20 stores around the U.S. with the …

Just Shopkick it: Mobile shopping app delivers $110M revenue to partners in 2011

More than just a nifty mobile app for consumers, Shopkick is also helping its retail and brand partners generate significant revenue. The company announced today that it drove more than $110 million in revenue to its partners in 2011, its …

Emerging social network Pinterest driving big traffic to retailers (infographic)

Emerging social network Pinterest, an addictive site that lets people spotlight products and items they like, is helping drive increasing amounts of traffic to retailers, according to a new infographic by Monetate.

Pinterest, which attracted nearly 11 million unique visitors …

GameStop hands out $50 gift cards after pulling free OnLive game coupons

Game retailer GameStop is handing out $50 gift cards as an apology to gamers who bought PC copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution after the retailer pulled coupons from the boxes for free versions of the game from cloud gaming …

GameStop pulls coupon for free OnLive Deus Ex: Human Revolution copy from physical PC game

Video game retailer GameStop has admitted to removing coupons from boxed PC versions of Deus Ex: Human Revolution for free versions of the game on cloud gaming provider OnLive.

Gamers who purchase a PC version of the game are treated …

AisleBuyer grabs $7.5M to help you skip the checkout line

AisleBuyer, a smartphone application that allows retail shoppers to scan products with their phones and check out without waiting in line, has announced its second round of funding for $7.5 million.

The funding will be used for product development as …