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Thanksgiving Day retail traffic increased 71% in 2012 — Thanksgiving Day online traffic increased 71% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 181 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 8% on average.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Black Friday Online Sales Surged 21 Percent Thanks To Mobile Shopping, More Retailer Promotions And Personalized Deals — After a particularly strong Thanksgiving for online sales, shoppers continued to look for e-commerce deals on Black Friday. IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark is reporting … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Black Friday: PayPal Sees Mobile Payments Jump 193 Percent; eBay Up 153 Percent — Black Friday numbers are strong across the board, according to initial reports coming in today from retailers and payments companies. As IBM reported earlier today, total online sales saw a surge of 20.7 percent …
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SlashGear, VentureBeat, The PayPal Blog and eBay Ink
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The PayPal Blog, CNET, internetretailer.com, VatorNews, PC Magazine, eBay Ink, VentureBeat, Mercury News, Business Insider, PC Magazine and TechCrunch. Tweets: @hitwise_us
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Droidfooding: After Years Of Giving Employees iPhones, Posters At Facebook HQ Beg Them To Test Android — “In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily”, a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for Google's OS.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple adds six Samsung products including Note II, S III mini and Galaxy Tab 2 to California lawsuit — Both Apple and Samsung keep exercising their rights under the Northern District of California's permissive rules governing the timing of infringement contentions.
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Engadget, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, Mashable!, AppleInsider and iDownloadBlog.com
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs — Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition and the identification …
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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Mark Watson's blog and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Thanks:@reckel
| Julian Pecquet / Hillicon Valley: |
Gaza violence leads lawmakers to call for shuttering terror groups on Twitter — The past week's violence in Gaza has rekindled calls for Twitter to shutter the accounts of U.S.-labeled terror groups such as Hamas. — Seven House Republicans asked the FBI in September to demand that Twitter …
| Rafat Ali / Skift: |
What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong? — Travel is among the most pivot-friendly categories in the startupland. What happens when a well-liked-but-limited app, focused on a nice but commodity niche, attempts to pivot into a larger company, attempting to “reinvent travel”?| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows Phone Team: This is No Way to Treat Early Adopters — Once seen as a nice gesture, Windows Phone 7.8 is now seen for what it is — When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7.8 in June, I knew it was too good to be true. At the time, it seemed like Microsoft was throwing a bone …
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wpcentral.com, The Next Web, parislemon and Forbes
| Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal: |
Can Police Locate Wireless Internet Moochers Without a Warrant? — Beware, wireless Internet moochers. A federal court in Pittsburgh has ruled that the government can track you to your location, sans search warrant, using free anti-moocher software. — The courts have ruled …
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Business Insider and digitaltrends.com
| Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com: |
LG admits reason behind dropping 4G in Nexus 4 — Because it's secretly another phone … The redundant 4G chip in the Nexus 4 caused confusion, but now LG has told TechRadar why it's there. — The presence of the LTE connectivity hardware in the Nexus 4 caused some to believe that it could be next-gen speed-enabled in the future.
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VentureBeat, The Verge, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, AnandTech and Engadget
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Former Nokia exec Damian Dinning announces he's headed to Jaguar Land Rover — The sudden departure of Nokia imaging head Damian Dinning caught many by surprise earlier today, but now he's announced where his next post will be: Jaguar Land Rover. In an explanation posted at PureView Club …
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PureView Club, PhoneArena, Unwired View, AllThingsD, Techie Buzz, Nokiapoweruser, WMPoweruser, PetaPixel, My Nokia Blog, The Verge, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, The Register, TechCrunch, Neowin, Engadget, Business Insider, PureView Club, SlashGear, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News and Amateur Photographer. Tweets: @phonedaz
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