Web Retail's Higher-Fliers
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Amazon.com stock closed Friday at $90 a share, up 135 percent over a year ago. As buyers snap up everything from "Harry Potter" books to motor oil at the granddaddy of online retailers, its stock's nightmarish plunge from $106 to less than $6 a share after the tech bubble burst seems a distant me...
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Holiday shoppers gravitated toward the Internet in big numbers late last year, with online retailers reaping some US&#36;23 billion from U.S. consumers. That figure marks a 25 percent increase from the &#36;18.5 billion spent online during the same period in 2003.
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U.S. retail sales over the Internet  rose 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2004 and gained 23.1  percent compared with the same period last year as consumers  continued to turn to e-commerce to make purchases, a government  report showed on Friday.
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The e-commerce sector continues to outpace most other sectors of the economy in terms of satisfying customers, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index.
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Online retailers sold $14.8 billion worth of goods and services between Nov. 1 and Dec. 26, a 29 percent increase over the comparable period in 2003, according to statistics released this week by ComScore Networks. The increase was particularly pronounced in the week before Christmas. -The Washington Post
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Spending by Americans shopping online  during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent to $8.8  billion, with sharp gains in purchases of clothing and  entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. said on Thursday.
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The companies are hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money.
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It's shaping up to be a very  merry holiday season for online retailers.
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The company is growing at hyperspeed because of the surge of multimedia on the Web.
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The online retailer continues to accelerate its growth levels.
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By JANE KWIATKOWSKI  Tired of cranky cashiers? Sick of ATM lines? Want to know where there are no lines?  Online -- at the Internet Mall, where you can join 115 million other shoppers this holiday season.  Shoppers use the Internet for much more than making purchases.
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U.S. online retailers posted holiday sales of $23.2 billion, excluding travel, up a larger-than-expected 25 percent from the 2003 season, according to a new survey.
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Spending by Americans shopping  online during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent from a  year earlier to $8.8 billion, with sharp gains in purchases of  clothing and entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. VRSN.O  said on Thursday.
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Boosting the bottom line isn't always about cutting costs or improving distribution channels. One company found success by building a better online community.
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GuruNet's stock is soaring on the hopes that a new product will score with Web users.
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If you want to browse the Web at one, or even six miles high, your choices of airlines are expanding.
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More books are sold on the internet than any other product and the number is increasing, research suggests.