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Online sales on track to break 'Cyber Monday' record in US

Washington - Online sales for the key holiday retail day of "Cyber Monday" were on track for a record, helped by surging smartphone shopping, market trackers said. The Adobe Digital Index showed that sales in the first 10 hours of the day were 490 million dollars, up 14 percent from a year ago. That puts sales on track for 3 billion dollars,...

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Retail madness expected on 'Black Friday' and 'Cyber Monday'

Online giant Amazon UK predicts record numbers of shoppers to visit its site this year during 'Black Friday' and 'Cyber Monday,' while more and more UK retailers are beginning to jump on the kickoff to the holiday shopping bandwagon. Both 'Black Friday' and 'Cyber Monday' are retail promotional events which originated in the US and traditionally...