Sunnyvale-based consumer electronics marketplace Retrevo Inc. said its new "Gadgetology" survey showed that 34 percent of students who are buying laptops are planning on purchasing small, lightweight netbooks, and 49 percent are buying full-sized PC laptops. Click Here to read more.
Historically, Apple has done fairly well during the back-to-school season. This back-to-school season though, more students seem to want netbooks rather than full-sized PCs. And who wouldn’t? Netbooks are small and light, not to mention that most have longer battery lives than regular-sized notebooks. Click Here to read more.
It’s probably time for Apple to consider geting into the netbook market. According to the latest Gadgetology study conducted by consumer electronics marketplace Retrevo, 34% of their respondents are planning to buy netbooks, 49% are buying PC laptops and majority of them are not getting a Mac. Click Here to read more.
Demand for small-businesses-friendly electronics products increased this summer, signaling an economic silver lining, according to data from Retrevo Pulse, a publicly-available index that maps daily price and demand trends in the consumer electronics industry across 40 categories and over 4,000 products. Click Here to read more.
Sales of productivity tools have stayed relatively strong while purchases of entertainment gadgets continue to slump according to Retrevo.com, an electronics marketplace that tracks the buying patterns of the four million unique visitors who use the site each month. Click Here to read more.
Retrevo is designed to provide consumers with the information they need to confidently decide which electronics to buy. The Retrevo Marketplace uses artificial intelligence to analyze and visually summarize more than 50 million real-time data points from the Internet to give shoppers comprehensive, unbiased, up-to-date product information. Click Here to read more.
Los Angeles-based PriceGrabber.com, a provider of online comparison shopping services, said Monday that it has linked with Retrevo, Click Here to read more.
A recent study by Retrevo, a leading consumer electronics information web site, found that only 13% of respondents believe electronics manufacturers' green claims.
That dismally low number for may reflect the fact that it's hard to imagine an eco-friendly 50-inch plasma screen. Click Here to Read More.
Camcorder demand grew 20% over a three-month period starting in
April. The demand for GPS devices grew showing that more people are taking to the highways this summer rather than flying. Portable DVD
players are down 20% since March, so I guess most kids traveling have to miss movie watching. Click Here to read the full story.
The whole "staycation" trend seems to be helping business in Silicon Valley. Lots of gadget sales mean lots of profits for tech companies like Apple, HP, Palm, and Intel. Even those who are traveling are stocking up on GPS devices, which also benefit several Silicon Valley companies. Click Here to See the Full Story
I like to think of Retrevo as "The Google of the Consumer Electronics Buying Process" in that they have created and maintain a centralized, independent source that covers consumer needs in three key categories - Find, Buy, and Use. Click Here to Read More
Don't skip Retrevo when you're looking to make a purchase... Retrevo has an AI core that gathers up product review and pricing data from numerous sources (including CNET), to present overall recommendations on products. What's new is its Farecast-like feature of telling you if the product you're looking at is at its peak of popularity, or heading toward or away from it, plus indicators telling whether users like it, and if it's a good value or not at the moment. Click Here to read more.
Shopping for consumer electronics can be intimidating. Opinions -- both professional and personal -- abound, and the technology changes so quickly that the fear of buying an outdated technology can be paralyzing. With a new version of its consumer electronics shopping Web site, Retrevo.com looks to make the process of buying consumer electronics a little easier...
The revamped site, which begins a live Beta test today, is intended to simplify the consumer electronics buying process, culling information ranging from Web-based professional product reviews to general consumer response to prices and deals, and then placing that information in an easy-to-understand format. Click Here to read the full story.
Have you shopped for a digital camera lately? Even for shopaholics like me, it can be a daunting experience. The choices are, quite simply, mind-boggling. Sifting through them all and trying to pinpoint the best model for your needs and budget is a Herculean task.
Sites like PC World (my former employer) and CNET help, with expert reviews, ranked charts, and links to user reviews, specs, and (typically) pricing engines (to help you find the best deals on the models you’re researching). Now, however, a site called Retrevo is raising the bar on aggregating product information and packaging it in exceptionally accessible and user-friendly fashion.
The moment I hear Twitter anything my ears perks up, especially with me being a twitter fan... I have seen many cool features in products but applications like these
which take the guesswork out of a mama’s life gets my vote! Click Here to Read More.
Customers are no longer buying products just for the sake of owning one. They want products that are prime examples of their category. Companies focusing on innovation need to work to emphasize, in the customer's mind, what the innovation really accomplishes in their daily lives. Click Here to Read More.
“We’re not saying that gadgets make someone a better person, we’re just saying that functional gadgets go hand-in-hand with doing anything of significance in today’s world.”
Show Us Your Gear’s pilot episodes spotlight many celebrities and well-known people including Alltop founder, and former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Robert Scoble of Scobleizer.com. Click Here to Read More.
Trends suggest companies that innovate and develop customer-centric
products attract more buyers than companies that simply lower prices
and maintain the status quo. Click Here to Read More.
Although consumers may be cutting back on their consumer electronics purchases, they may be more willing to pay a premium for devices with clear innovative benefits, according to online electronics resource Retrevo. Retrevo's CEO Vipin Jain says, "Because consumers today are spending less and counting their money, they're also less likely to throw money away on a product that they don't need and that doesn't put them at the
center of the universe." Click Here to Read More.
