Online sales soar in Black Friday two-day shopping frenzy

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LL_Jyx4IiH5zPytHj42fMw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/shutterstock_45.bf1a5131009.original.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/online-sales-soar-black-friday-two-day-shopping-113233796.html)Americans' online shopping for Black Friday deals soared to $3 billion during a two-day period beginning on Thanksgiving, with tablets and cell phones used for nearly a quarter of sales, estimates showed Saturday. That marked a 39 percent increase over 2012, according to software maker Adobe, which analyzed 400 million visits on some 2,000 American shopping websites. Early Black Friday sales, which began on Thanksgiving, reached $1.06 billion, up 18 percent from last year, according to Adobe. Technology giant IBM also found similar numbers for overall online sales as it looked at 800 merchant websites.



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