Revenue per online-shopping customer: This refers to the average revenue from each Akamai online shopping customer.
And now, the following Monday is the ultimate online-shopping event.
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In the early days of Internet retail, some consumers had their first online-shopping experiences during the holidays, leading them to keep returning to a particular site in later months.
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Or online-shopping sites with real-time inventory synchronization, or real-time banking and investment systems, or thousands of other examples of the new face of the new data warehouse: always on, open to as many as possible, blindingly fast, and increasingly designed for the consumer as much as for the hard-core data junkie.
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It becomes clear that online bargain-shopping is not all it is cracked up to be.
Mr. Brown said that the vast majority of Dataium's business involves providing general data about online car-shopping trends.
In Tempe, Arizona, IQOrder has developed technology that will enable customers to use online price-shopping techniques in their forays into regular stores.
Then again, if we remember correctly Ciao -- the European online shopping portal -- didn't have any problems with how Google did business until they were snatched up by Microsoft recently.
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Mr. Samit says ad revenue is growing, and the company is exploring deals with a range of partners, from online-dating, shopping and poker sites, to remote surgery applications.
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Which is why, in preparation for Nov. 27--aka "Cyber Monday, " the unofficial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season--stores are redoubling their efforts to draw shoppers to their Web sites by getting more creative promotionally and by embracing alternative payment methods that don't necessarily require a credit-card number or a PIN.
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In contrast, both online and out-of-town shopping have risen, with online sales doubling since 2000 to 10% and predicted to rise to more than 12% by 2014.
It focuses on connecting customers in CompUSA outlets to online product information in an attempt to marry the most attractive features of online and in-store shopping.
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More than a quarter (28%) are working with their third-party hosting provider to make sure customers can keep shopping online during high-traffic periods.
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As the use of mobile continues to drive technology adoption, multi-channel retailers expect even more opportunities to connect with consumers for pre-shopping, in-store and online purchasing activities.
Online-sales tracker IBM Benchmark put the internet shopping rise even higher - up nearly 27% compared with the Monday after Thanksgiving last year.
Trends like online shopping and self-gifting have intensified the focus on the more event -driven early part of the holiday season.
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The site will offer not only financial deals, but hopes to attract an audience for news, e-commerce and online shopping as well.
To justify its stock price, Akamai must position itself to triple revenue per customer figures for media and e-commerce (online shopping) verticals by the end of our forecast period.
Haydn Blackey, principal lecturer in marketing at the University of Glamorgan, said there had also been an increase in online grocery shopping by blue-collar families with limited access to transport.
"Google Wallet allows us to harness the power of mobile technology to enhance our in-store shopping experience and helps bridge the gap between our online and in-store consumer interactions, " said Martine Reardon, executive vice-president of marketing and advertising, Macy's.
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The convenience of online shopping is at an all-time high via smartphones, readers and tablets.
Although it operates data centres of its own, it outsources much of its computing to Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing arm of the online shopping giant.
Hointer is trying to "combine the speed and convenience of the online shopping experience with the in-store experience of touching and trying on your clothes, " says Ms. Shouraboura, 42 years old.
The major shortcoming with online shopping to date has been the instant gratification that comes with in-store shopping and the ease with which consumers can get their hands on products in real time.
Rather, the rapid rise of mobile shopping and location-based services have set the stage for a new kind of shopping experience, one that blends online, in-store and mobile into a single, fluid system that finally allows consumers to get what they want, for the price they want, when they want it.
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This video about online shopping gets to the pain e-commerce with a touch of humor.
The deal would have brought together Lycos, USA Networks' Home Shopping television Network and Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, a ticketing and online entertainment agency.
Tencent had previously indicated it would let the service remain free and try to monetize the platform by offering value-added services like online games and mobile shopping.
Of course, if a book isn't what you want to give as a gift, perhaps you should consult a book -- "The Best of Online Shopping, " by Lisa and Jonathan Price.
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