Amazon.com has launched Amazon Mom, a new free membership program that offers exclusive promotions and discounts available only to parents and caregivers from the prenatal stage through the toddler years.

The majority (83%) of consumers shop online at least once a week, according to a new study by Compete.
Consumers are searching for retailers on Facebook and Twitter in growing numbers, 31 percent report checking out Facebook fan pages or Twitter feeds of retailers, almost twice as many people as in Q3 2009.
Research indicates that [...]

Priceline.com has introduced the “Priceline Big Deal Guarantee” for all of its Name Your Own Price travel services, including airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars and Priceline Vacation Packages.
When a users books a Name Your Own Price airline ticket, hotel room, rental car or Priceline Vacation Package and finds a better price online for [...]

Two-thirds of consumers begin the shopping process online, and that half convert offline, according to a new study by comScore conducted for Searchdise Commerce.

Three out of 10 major online retailers offered new payment methods as an additional option to credit cards in December 2007, according to a study from Brulant.
That is an increase of 24 percent of major online retailers who offered alternative payment methods in February 2007.
More than one-fifth of online retailers surveyed offered Bill-Me-later. PayPal was [...]