News Story No.8 | US 'sees biggest Cyber Monday sales'

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• Comscore said consumers would have spent $1.5bn (£0.9bn) on so-called Cyber Monday, up 20% from last year.
• Online-sales tracker IBM Benchmark put the internet shopping rise even higher - up nearly 27% compared with the Monday after Thanksgiving last year.
• Smartphone and tablet computer sales rose 10.2%
• "Online's piece of the holiday pie is growing every day" - Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru
• "The web is becoming a more significant part of the traditional brick-and-mortar holiday shopping season."
• Comscore said internet shopping rose by a quarter last Friday to break the $1bn mark for the first time while it was up by a third on Thanksgiving itself.

This shows how the internet is being used more frequently for shopping - this is significantly growing as more people are relying on it as a better emans of shopping. Furthermore, this also shows how people are now less skeptical of shopping online despite fraud and hacking still being a risk - however, as more people are shopping online; this shows how it is becoming more reliable.



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