According to Web traffic monitoring firm Comscore.com, online sales rose roughly 15% in November and December compared with a year ago.
In France in the mid-1980s, the online Minitel Rose services gave the French a new opportunity to talk away the evenings through their little beige videotex terminals.
Despite the worsening economy, online ad spending rose sharply in the second quarter, according to a report released today by IgnitionOne.
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Viewed through this lens, online CEO sociability rose dramatically over the past two years to 66 percent in 2012 from 36 percent in 2010.
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Inditex said first-half profit rose 32%, driven by online sales and new stores in Asia.
Early in the interview, Rose asked Sandberg to explain the evolution of online advertising in relation to Facebook.
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The online streaming and movie-rental company rose after reporting a fourth-quarter profit Wednesday after the closing bell.
Further strength in internet trading has been reported by Asos, the online market leader, which said sales rose 54% during the January-to-March quarter when compared with the same period a year earlier.
Total sales from 1 November to Christmas Eve rose 3.9% from a year earlier, with online sales up 11.2%.
Online ad spending continues to far outpace overall advertising spending, which rose less than 1%, according to both Nielsen and Kantar Media.
Sourcebooks, a medium-sized publisher that has developed an online group focused on poetry, found that sales of its books rose by more than 50% in the six weeks after poems from them had featured on the site.
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The online ad management firm, known until recently as SearchIgnite, said spending rose across the three channels it tracks: search ads, display ads, and Facebook.
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Online sales at House of Fraser jumped 48% from a year earlier and this big rise in online trade was echoed at fashion retailer New Look, which said sales over the internet rose by more than 50%.
Ms Sanchez, 37, rose to prominence when she wrote about life in Cuba, emailing her blog entries to friends abroad to publish online.
Shares of Amazon rose last night after CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the new device, demonstrating its 7-inch screen, free online data storage and the new Amazon Silk browser.
Japanese stocks rose to their highest level since March 11, as a weakening yen and news of manufacturers bringing factories back online made owning Japanese stocks more attractive to investors.
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Between 2009 and 2011, the proportion of online purchases originating on search engines dropped from 25% to 13% while Amazon-originated product searches rose from 18% to 33%.
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