Amazon was the most visited retail site on both Thanksgiving and Black Friday with traffic on the days being 25 million and 29 million.
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Built initially to help deal with the floods that regularly threatened the city, it now co-ordinates 30 government agencies and provides mobile applications to keep citizens in touch with potential accidents, traffic black-spots and other city updates.
Mobile devices, including tablet computers and smartphones, accounted for 14.3% of all online retail traffic on Black Friday, according to Coremetrics.
When she realized she was a sitting duck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Black turned around and found herself directly in the path of the most violent part of the storm.
Its closest competitor in terms of visits on Thanksgiving, Wal-Mart, witnessed a decline of almost 25% on Black Friday while Amazon saw traffic grow by 15%.
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Joseph White, a soldier in the Army National Guard, told The Courier Herald of Dublin he was heading to work when he drove into heavy traffic clouded by black smoke.
In 2011, online traffic on Thanksgiving and Black Friday closely matched those on Cyber Monday.
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Nevertheless, the weak holiday season in the U.S. dragged sales down and the retailer stated that its store traffic declined sharply after Black Friday.
According to data released from Black Friday, which chronicled foot traffic at stores of both Apple and Microsoft, it was discovered that 11 iPads were being purchased every hour.
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Its launch on Dec. 1 is driving an extraordinary amount of publicity for the retailer during the slight lull after Black Friday and timed to drive traffic to stores and Target.com in the early weeks of December, before the real panicked shopping begins just before Christmas.
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The scheme is aimed at improving traffic flow around the busy Black Bull junction at Lingey Lane.
During its first tour of London's roads, one of the Fuel Cell Black Cabs excelled in rush-hour traffic, with smooth and responsive acceleration provided by the fuel cell and electric motors.
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At one point the modest traffic is brought to a standstill by a black bear ambling nonchalantly out of a copse.
On Black Friday, the iPhone is the leading device driving mobile traffic, which makes sense as consumers head to the mall, devices in hand.
Store traffic was up, the average amount spent over the Black Friday weekend was up nicely, and online sales are apparently booming.
The day ranked fourth in foot-traffic and sales for the entire holiday season, behind Black Friday November 26, Friday December 23 and Super Saturday December 17.
Only buses, licensed black taxis and motorcycles - making up about 7% of London-bound traffic - had been allowed to use the bus lane.
Traffic cones, road signs, bottles, shoes and an old black and white car registration plate were among the rubbish found in a clean-up of Windermere in the Lake District.
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However, site traffic on Thanksgiving was up 50% YOY and 30% up YOY on Black Friday.
Turkey carefully implemented the Montreux Convention, which governs traffic through the Bosporus, so only a handful of American warships could enter the Black Sea.
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Thick black smoke poured from an underground electricity vault fire Thursday in downtown Chicago, forcing police to halt traffic in the famous Loop.
The show started with clothes in camel, black and gray but these immediately gave way to oversized leopard print sweaters, a short suit in traffic light red and a wispy blue dress with a cutaway hem that was paired with drainpipe trousers.
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The stickers on traffic signals also included ones that said "Press to Teleport, " printed as white words on a black circle.
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