• Some Sites Reserve Right To Share Personal Data by Wendy Davis

  Although the vast majority of popular Web sites have privacy policies, many of those sites don't actually promise to protect users' privacy. Many of the sites with those broad reservation-of-rights clauses are e-commerce destinations. ...Read the whole story

• Ecommerce Spend Rockets To $1B by Gavin O'Malley

  Blurring the lines between "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday," ecommerce spending on Friday surpassed $1 billion for the first time, per comScore. For the holiday season-to-date, $13.7 billion has been spent online, marking a 16% increase year-over-year. ...Read the whole story

• Cyber Monday Search, Sales Rise, Along with Cost Per Clicks by Laurie Sullivan

  The keyword terms "cyber monday deals" became the No. 1 search query on google.com, with more than 1 million searches, according to Google. Searches drove up sales and clicks. The major trend this year is "astronomically high" cost per clicks on Google and Bing, up between 30% and 50%. ...Read the whole story

• Mobile Becomes Major Shopping Player by Mark Walsh

  The abundance of holiday shopping data pouring in so far shows mobile is playing a bigger role in e-commerce than last year. The mobile share of sales hit 16%, up from 9.8% a year ago. Another contributing factor may be efforts by marketers to capitalize on that opportunity by expanding or upgrading their mobile presence. ...Read the whole story

• Facebook Gifts Adds iTunes by Mark Walsh

  Facebook Gifts has a big new retail partner: Apple. The social network has added the ability for people to send iTunes digital gifts through its own gifting service in the latest integration effort between the two tech giants. ...Read the whole story

• Tablet Display Shipments Outpace Laptops by Erik Sass

  Global shipments of display panels for tablet computers passed shipments of laptop displays for the first time in October, according to NPD DisplaySearch, providing further evidence of the shift to tablet computing. ...Read the whole story

• Samsung, Bravo Pitch 'Live' Participation by David Goetzl

  Continuing its massive push behind its Galaxy products, Samsung is backing a new companion-viewing opportunity from Bravo. ...Read the whole story

• American Eagle, Macy's and Victoria's Secret See Greatest Black Friday Visit Growth by Steve Smith

  Location analytics firm Placed used its mobile army of opted-in location profilers to gauge how foot traffic increased to store brands on Black Friday. Stores that observed Thanksgiving and remained closed on the holiday saw the biggest bounces on Friday. ...Read the whole story

• Retail Traffic Soars On iPad, iPhone
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