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Black Friday will be the biggest mobile shopping day ever in the U.S., forecast claims

A new report from App Annie predicts that time spent doing mobile shopping via apps will grow 45 percent in the U.S. during the week of Black Friday, compared to the same time two years ago. The firm

Nigeria’s Black Friday sales test the e-commerce models of startups Jumia and Konga

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Crunch Report | Casey Neistat’s Beme Acquired by CNN

Casey Neistat's Beme gets acquired by CNN, how did Black Friday 2016 do?, getting iCloud spam calendar invites?, Uber China gets its own app and San Francisco's Muni gets hacked. All this on Crunch Re

PayPal says mobile shopping accounted for a third of Thanksgiving & Black Friday sales

New data from PayPal further confirms mobile’s contribution to e-commerce retailers’ bottom lines over Thanksgiving and Black Friday. According to data from its network, mobile devices ac

Black Friday online sales to hit a record-breaking $3 billion, over $1 billion from mobile

Black Friday online shopping is continuing to grow, and this Friday was another record-breaking day. According to a new report out this evening from Adobe, which has been tracking e-commerce transacti

Mobile shopping hits record numbers over Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Black Friday has only just begun, but already mobile traffic and sales are breaking records compared with years prior, according to third-party reports and those from major retailers, out this mornin

Crunch Report | Tesla and SolarCity-powered Island

Tesla and SolarCity power an island in American Samoa, after skipping last year Apple holds its Black Friday sale, robots will be helping with shopping at Westfield malls in San Francisco, Michigan do

Apple teases a one-day Black Friday sale, a reversal from last year’s decision to sit out

Apple has changed its stance on Black Friday. The company, which is now teasing its upcoming one-day deals via a new web page, will again participate in the holiday shopping event after having famousl

A Holiday Perspective On Technology And Consumerism

Holiday shopping, long a staple in American life, has undergone significant change over the past half century. The “Miracle on 34th Street” post-war tradition of heading downtown to Macy’s or Bl

Here’s What Cards Against Humanity Is Doing With The $71,145 They Made On Black Friday

While a lot of the US was out and about shopping for themselves or others for the holidays, Cards Against Humanity ran their own Black Friday campaign, asking for $5 and in return the buyer would get

Amazon Is Giving Away Unlimited Cloud Storage For $5.00

Amid a slew of deep discounts appearing on the web today as a part of the shopping holiday Black Friday, Amazon has introduced one deal that’s sort of a no brainer. The company is giving away un

Amazon Debuts Its Online Black Friday Deals Store, Gives Prime Members Early Access To Discounts

Expanding on the success of the Amazon-created sales holiday Prime Day earlier this year, Amazon announced it's now launching a dedicated Black Friday Deals Store where Amazon Prime members will get e

Walmart.com Reports Biggest Cyber Monday In History, Mobile Traffic At 70% Over The Holidays

There were some discrepancies this year between the figures from various firms tracking 2014's Black Friday and Cyber Monday's online sales, with IBM reporting only single-digit growth, and others lik

IBM: Black Friday Online Sales Up 8.5% Over Last Year, 20% Of Sales Came From iOS

Online retailers had a decent Black Friday, with sales up over 8% from a year ago, and nearly 47% of online traffic coming from mobile devices throughout the day. Mobile played a big role this year i

Thanksgiving Digest (IBM E-Commerce Edition): Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales

For many years, Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving -- marked the start of the holiday shopping rush. But with many (<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/29/amid-some-fistfights-walmart-sell

Amid Some Fistfights, Walmart Sells 1.4M Tablets On Thanksgiving, iPad Mini A Top Seller

Walmart is already crowing about Black Friday and we're only a couple of hours into the actual day itself. That's because depressingly, Black Friday has somehow subsumed Thanksgiving Thursday and beco

Let’s Sit Out Black Friday, Shall We?

It's Thanksgiving in the States and tomorrow is the biggest shopping day of the year. In fact stores will be open tonight so you can elbow your way into a scrum of bargain hunters and frotteurists. I'

In UK Holiday Shopping, Mobile Devices Win Friends And Influence People To The Tune Of Nearly $7B

Over the weekend we saw how much <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/22/ibm-thanksgiving-sales-data-shows-mobile-commerce-jumping-iphoneipad-driving-19-of-traffic-social-nets-only-0-2/">mobile imp

A Glimpse Of The Apocalypse: Walmart Customers Fight Over Phones On Black Friday

On <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/27/black-friday-e-commerce-spending-up-26-percent-to-a-record-816m-amazon-most-visited-retailer/">Black Friday</a>, discounted boxed <a href="https://techcru

Everlane Goes Black In Protest Of Black Friday; Buy Your Disruptive Cashmere On Saturday

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.everlane.com">Everlane</a>, one of the wave of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/29/the-next-big-e-commerce-wave-vertically-integrated-commerce/">vertically-i
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