Christmas online sales 'rise 50%'
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UK internet sales rose by 50% in the run up to Christmas, compared to a year earlier, a survey says.
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Online retailer declares ''best ever'' holiday season, offers snapshot of season's sales activity.
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Sales in the US by online retailers rise 19% between 1 November and 27 December, comScore says.
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Sales of video game hardware and software were up in December from a year earlier as holiday shoppers snapped up new consoles, market research firm NPD said.
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Retailers are giving vocal online shoppers more opportunities to sound off about products this holiday season &#151; and in return are hoping to convert more surfers into buyers.
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Sales from online advertising hit $4.6 billion in the first half of 2004, up more than 40 percent from the same period the previous year, according to a new US study.
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Fueled by Web searches for iPods, Elmos, gift cards and video game consoles, online retailers are expecting sales to increase by about 20 percent this year.
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Post-holiday discounts and shoppers redeeming gift cards helped boost retail sales 14 percent for the last full week of December, according to data released on Wednesday.
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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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Last-minute shoppers flocked to the Internet, leading online retail sales to surpass estimates for the holiday season.
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Credit crunched Amazon.co.uk is claiming this Christmas was its best ever with sales peaking on 10 December.â¦
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UK retail sales are better than expected in November as Christmas shoppers flock  to the High Street.
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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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Consumers in the United States are already spending record amounts of money online. One e-commerce company has a novel way to help Net shoppers hunt for bargains this holiday season.
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Holiday Web sales are running ahead of forecast as online gift certificates helped give Internet retailers a chance to participate in U.S. consumers' last-minute shopping spree, Internet research firm comScore Networks said on Wednesday.
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Retail sales in Britain jumped higher in November, driven by online and mail order shopping, official data showed Friday.
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U.S. retailers are starting their   holiday Internet marketing campaigns earlier this year, rolling   out promotions as much as two months before Christmas,   according to a study to be released on Wednesday.