Of the 96.5 million Americans who planned to shop on Cyber Monday...
Of the 96.5 million Americans who planned to shop on Cyber Monday -- up from 85 million in 2008 -- 3.8 percent said they would shop from a mobile device like an iPhone or a BlackBerry, said Shop.org, the…
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National Retail Federation’s online division. TheFind.com said searches from mobile devices increased from about 5,000 on Black Friday 2008 to about 200,000 this time. EBay said a “deals” app that it released right before Black Friday, has been used more than 50,000 times. The application provides a stream of offers from the site’s millions of listings. Black Friday mobile payments on PayPal were 140 percent higher than average for Fridays, said Beth Strobel, a director at the company. More than 500,000 transactions have been done on PayPal mobile since Nov. 16, she said. Some mobile marketers are promoting Mobile Tuesday.