Tons of traffic: Amazon dominates online retail during Christmas week

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The holiday numbers speak for themselves: Amazon is the biggest online shopping site, and it’s not even close. New website traffic stats from Experian show Amazon with 25.5 million website visits on the day after Christmas, more than three times the amount for second-place WalMart. That number does not even include mobile traffic. Amazon also raked in… Read More…

Chart: Here’s how much Americans are spending online this holiday season

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Americans are spending a lot of dough online this holiday season, with comScore reporting that $33.8 billion has been spent online so far this year. That’s up 13-percent compared to the corresponding days last year. “This past workweek saw four days surpass the billion dollar spending threshold during the heaviest five-day online shopping period on record,”… Read More…

Microsoft: Xbox 360 registers biggest week in its history

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Microsoft says its Xbox 360 sold more than 960,000 units in the U.S. during the past week, setting a new weekly record for the console as the holiday shopping season began. More than 800,000 of the consoles were sold in a 24 hour period, according to the company. In addition, the company says it sold… Read More…