For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers. A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or sent to mobile phones, is packed with ...

This holiday season, the best online shopping may be found off the Web. Several major retailers, including Gap and Kenneth Cole, are using online coupons to funnel customers to their brick-and-mortar ...

A recent story in the New York Times about “Web coupons” tells how the massive, under-the-radar data mining industry just hammered one of the last nails into the coffin of online "privacy". In case ...

This year’s holiday season is expected to be stronger for retailers, but it will come at a price for them and a bargain for you: They’ll have to offer lucrative discounts, often in the form of coupons ...

As shoppers get ready for another tough holiday season, more will be using coupons - but not your mother's old-school, cut-on-the-dotted-line version. (AP) -- Ask.com hopes to persuade consumers that ...

This year's holiday season is expected to be stronger for retailers, but it will come at a price for them and a bargain for you: They'll have to offer lucrative discounts, often in the form of coupons ...

Stephen M. Kramarsky, a member of Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky, analyzes Applied Interact's hold on web coupons based on 1993 patents which, while intended for coupons linked to radio or TV broadcasts, ...