More shoppers are flocking to the Web for the holidays, boosting online retail sales 12% over a year ago. In five weeks ending Dec. 3, Americans spent $17.5 billion on retail items on the Web, up from $15.7 billion in the year-ago period, according to a new report from ComScore.
Google's search engine continues to leave competitors in the dust. According to a new report from ComScore, Google accounted for 66.1% of all U.S. searches in September, up from 65.4% in August, while Yahoo lost market share.
Japanese mobile-phone users are about 70% more likely to regularly use their devices to connect to the Internet than Americans, and more than twice as likely to be connected as European mobile users.