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            <title>Shipping costs drive away almost half of users</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The results of a new survey released by PayPal and conducted by comScore show that almost half (45%) of online shoppers abandoned their shopping carts multiple times in the past three weeks due to high shipping costs, security concerns and lack of convenience.]]></description>
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            <title>Online sales climb 14% in April</title>
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            <title>Internet advertising jumps 19.2%</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cybersquatting of many of the world's most popular brands increased in 2008, according to the latest report from MarkMonitor.]]></description>
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            <title>Amazon Q4 sales beat expectations</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For the fourth quarter of 2008, Amazon.com increased sales by 18% to $6.70 billion, compared with $5.67 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Click Forensics today released its latest figures on click fraud for the fourth quarter of 2008. Figures show that it has jumped to the highest point since 2006.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The results come as Carol Bartz takes over from Jerry Yang as the firm's new CEO. Yang stepped down following his rejection of a $47.5bn takeover offer from Microsoft last year, which angered shareholders.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Perhaps a knock on effect of the recession, or a long term trend? A recent report from comScore for the first time puts Facebook over eBay in the UK. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to Hitwise, more Brits now visit social media sites such as Facebook than adult sites. The trend began last October.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to a new report published by Nielsen Online, visits to the top 10 online UK retailers grew on average by 37% year-on-year over the Christmas period. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Domino’s Pizza has revealed online sales increased by a massive 74% in 2008 to £58 million, up from £32.2 million in the previous year.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The results of a new online shopping survey conducted by New Media Age were released today. The survey reveals consumer spending habits for 2009, and shows that cost conscious consumers plan to spend more online this year than last.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[During November US Internet users watched a total of 12.7 billion online videos, an increase of 34% for the same period last year, according to comScore Video Metrix.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Brits are preparing to snap up a bargain on Christmas day. £20 per person is expected to be spent online this Christmas, according to the Interactive Media In Retail Group (IMRG).]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Most website owners know that consumers are more likely to buy their products when information is readily available on the website. A new study in the 'Journal of Consumer Research' confirms that online buyers select products with more technical specifications offered. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Retailers Argos and Debenhams have become the latest companies to offer pre-Christmas discounts of up to 50% both in-store and online.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bargain hunters and Christmas shoppers helped drive online retail sales last month. However, a drop in business on the high street suggests the trade on the internet is hitting stores that do not have an online presence.]]></description>
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            <title>Today is 'Mega Monday' for online sales</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Experts report that Monday, December 8 will be the busiest online trading day in the UK. More than 2,000,000 internet purchases are expected to take place today, with the hour between 1pm and 2pm the peak time for trading.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Online sales at the department store giant Johnlewis.com broke a new record last week, growing by £500,000 more than the previous weekly sales record in the week to 15 December 2006. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lycos Europe is to close after it failed to find a suitable buyer. It now plans to break up its assets including its hosting, domain name and shopping service.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[IMRG the organisation that represents the UK e-retail industry records that Monday 1st December recorded the UK’s largest ever online shopping volumes. However, anticipations that the new drop in VAT would increase volumes failed to materialize, leaving sales and levels of traffic lower than expected.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Monday, Yahoo! released their top search terms for 2008. Britney Spears was the top search for 2008. WWE was second and Barack Obama was third.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Google continues to be prevalent in the US search market, in October it accounted for 63.1% of all searches.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite the ongoing credit crunch, online shopping is expected to increase this year, but there is a difference between the buying habits of US consumers compared to those in the UK.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Google has abandoned its plans to move forward with Yahoo! on its proposed search advertising deal.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The holiday season may be a diificult time for traditional high street retailers but more than half (56.1%) of US online retailers expect to increase sales at least fifteen percent over last year according to a study conducted by Shopzilla for Shop.org.]]></description>
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