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Black Friday sales on smartphones total record $2.9 billion

12/05/201912/04/2019 Sam Lambert

Black Friday sales on smartphones - Shopping on phone

Thanksgiving and the day after both proved to be record breakers for shoppers online and over mobile. Black Friday sales on smartphones took off this year, raking in a tremendous $2.9 billion. This was a sizeable chunk of the total online spending that day, which was also a record breaking $7.4 billion, according to Adobe. That day’s online sales were the second record breakers in a row as Thanksgiving also performed. Thanksgiving brought in a tremendous $4.2 billion in online sales, even before the biggest American purchasing day of the…

M-commerce should continue to grow as Christmas nears

11/30/201211/29/2012 L. Green

Analysts are predicting that revenues will climb throughout the holiday shopping season. As online shopping activities get into full gear throughout the United Kingdom in preparation for holiday gift buying, many companies are now placing a significant focus on their m-commerce efforts to try to pull in an even greater amount of money from shoppers with smartphones and tablets. This festive season is expected to be a very important one for mobile, and it’s already off to a hot start. Research and predictions abound, as analysts throughout the industry attempt…

Mcommerce apps used most on Black Friday

11/28/201211/27/2012 L. Green

Mobile applications played a major role in kicking off the holiday shopping season. This year, more than ever before, shoppers used mcommerce as an important part of their Black Friday shopping, and this included many activities, from price comparisons to hunting for sales, checking inventories, and even making the purchases themselves. These activities were performed both over apps and mobile optimized websites. Although there was a great deal of activity overall, some mcommerce apps saw more action than others. For example, Groupon held the leading position as the most used…

Mobile commerce data revealed for first holiday weekend at eBay

11/28/201211/26/2012 Jesse Collins

The company has released its data for smartphones and tablets, but not its overall figures. The massive online marketplace, eBay has released its data regarding its mobile commerce sales data for the first holiday shopping weekend of the year, though it has held off on revealing its overall performance. The company shared its PayPal, Marketplaces and GSI Commerce units numbers without further detail. There was no indication from the company as to whether or not the figures that it released represented any improvements in mobile commerce when compared with last…

Mcommerce survey shows use of channel will boost holiday sales

11/21/201211/20/2012 Jesse Collins

The research has shown that shopping can be boosted on a number of different levels. A recent survey performed by MarketLive regarding mcommerce has shown that in the upcoming busiest shopping season of the year, this channel can play an exceptionally important role in increasing sales, on a broad spectrum of different levels. The multi-channel shopper survey indicated that 16 percent of people plan to shop exclusively over mobile. This means that all of their gift buying purchasing will occur on the mcommerce apps and websites of their favorite stores,…