Mastercard has submitted a report on buying patterns, which identifies an online shopping boom. In comparison, the shopping spending of Americans on the Internet have increased by 15.4 percent. Each was compared to the period between 31 October and 24 December.

Individual shopping days such as Thanksgiving Day could even set up to 25 percent, it said. On Monday after the U.S. Thanksgiving came to online sales totaling 999.3 million U.S. dollars. There were even six days a US-Christmas sales, surpassed the revenues to which the billion-dollar mark. Last year it was only three days have been the case.

Most popular product category in online shopping is clothing, followed by electronics and jewelry, according to the report, called “Spending Pulse.”

Figures confirm the trend of Comscore. They cover the period 1 October to 20 From December, a few days less. There were up 12 percent year over year. The last week before Christmas, Comscore even saw an increase of 17 percent and sales of 5.5 billion dollars. For the Thanksgiving Day has made that statistic up 28 percent.

In addition to showing an online shopping boom Mastercard figures probably also responsible for the payment service had, at least in the U.S. do not suffer significantly below its behavior towards its customers Wikileaks. He began in early December payments to Wikileaks only because of allegations the U.S. government (but no verdict or just Process). As a result, there were attacks by Wikileaks supporters. An Icelandic webhosts also threatened a lawsuit. A few days later it became public that Mastercard has agreed to distribute on rights holders, suspend transactions of and with sites that pirated music, pictures, games and other copyrighted material.

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Mastercard has submitted a report on buying patterns, which identifies an online shopping boom. In comparison, the shopping spending of Americans on the Internet have increased by 15.4 percent. Each was compared to the period between 31 October and 24 December. Individual shopping days such as Thanksgiving Day could even set up to 25 percent, [...]

Mastercard has submitted a report on buying patterns, which identifies an online shopping boom. In comparison, the shopping spending of Americans on the Internet have increased by 15.4 percent. Each was compared to the period between 31 October and 24 December. Individual shopping days such as Thanksgiving Day could even set up to 25 percent, [...]

Mastercard has submitted a report on buying patterns, which identifies an online shopping boom. In comparison, the shopping spending of Americans on the Internet have increased by 15.4 percent. Each was compared to the period between 31 October and 24 December. Individual shopping days such as Thanksgiving Day could even set up to 25 percent, [...]

Mastercard has submitted a report on buying patterns, which identifies an online shopping boom. In comparison, the shopping spending of Americans on the Internet have increased by 15.4 percent. Each was compared to the period between 31 October and 24 December. Individual shopping days such as Thanksgiving Day could even set up to 25 percent, [...]

Mastercard has submitted a report on buying patterns, which identifies an online shopping boom. In comparison, the shopping spending of Americans on the Internet have increased by 15.4 percent. Each was compared to the period between 31 October and 24 December. Individual shopping days such as Thanksgiving Day could even set up to 25 percent, [...]

Mastercard has submitted a report on buying patterns, which identifies an online shopping boom. In comparison, the shopping spending of Americans on the Internet have increased by 15.4 percent. Each was compared to the period between 31 October and 24 December. Individual shopping days such as Thanksgiving Day could even set up to 25 percent, [...]

Mastercard has submitted a report on buying patterns, which identifies an online shopping boom. In comparison, the shopping spending of Americans on the Internet have increased by 15.4 percent. Each was compared to the period between 31 October and 24 December. Individual shopping days such as Thanksgiving Day could even set up to 25 percent, [...]