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Saturday, 30 November 2019
What’s on TV Sunday: Kacey Musgraves’s Christmas Show and ‘Apollo 11’
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Quotation of the Day: Amazon’s Expansive, Creeping Influence in an American City
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Plane Crash in Blizzard-Like Conditions Kills 9 in South Dakota, Officials Say
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Trump’s Intervention in SEALs Case Tests Pentagon’s Tolerance
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Cooking Grease Down a Drain Eyed in Sewage Flood of 300 Homes, Officials Say
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Leonardo DiCaprio Responds to Brazil’s President About Amazon Fires
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Mikaela Shiffrin Learns a New Way to Win: Without Her Mother as Coach
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Justin Fields Has ‘Heisman Moment’ in Ohio State’s Win Over Michigan
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Black Friday sees record $7.4B in online sales, $2.9B spent using smartphones
Following swiftly on the heels of a Thanksgiving that broke records with $4.2 billion in online sales, Black Friday also hit a new high, although it just fell short of predictions. According to analytics from Adobe, consumers spent $7.4 billion online yesterday buying goods online via computers, tablets and smartphones. The figures were up by $1.2 billion on Black Friday 2018, but they actually fell short of Adobe’s prediction for the day, which was $7.5 billion.
Salesforce, meanwhile, said that its checks revealed $7.2 billion in sales (even further off the forecast).
Popular products included toys on the themes of Frozen 2, L.O.L Surprise, and Paw Patrol. Best selling video games included FIFA 20, Madden 20, and Nintendo Switch. And top electronics, meanwhile, included Apple Laptops, Airpods, and Samsung TVs.
A full $2.9 billion of Black Friday sales happened on smartphones. These conversions are growing faster than online shopping overall, so we are now approaching a tipping point where soon smartphones might outweigh web-based purchases through computers.
“With Christmas now rapidly approaching, consumers increasingly jumped on their phones rather than standing in line,” said Taylor Schreiner, Principal Analyst & Head of Adobe Digital Insights, in a statement. “Even when shoppers went to stores, they were now buying nearly 41% more online before going to the store to pick up. As such, mobile represents a growing opportunity for smaller businesses to extend the support they see from consumers buying locally in-store on Small Business Saturday to the rest of the holiday season. Small Business Saturday will accelerate sales for those retailers who can offer unique products or services that the retail giants can’t provide.”
Adobe Analytics tracks sales in real-time for 80 of the top 100 US retailers, covering 55 million SKUs and some 1 trillion transactions during the holiday sales period. Salesforce uses Commerce Cloud data and insights covering more than half a billion global shoppers across more than 30 countries.
One of the reasons we may be seeing slightly less fervent sales than the analysts had predicted is because the holiday sales season is starting earlier and earlier. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when many people have days off, has for a long time been seen by retailers as the start of holiday shopping season. That has changed as retailers hope to catch more sales over a longer period of time.
As more people shop, they are also shopping for more expensive items. Adobe noted that Average Order Value was $168, a new record level yesterday for Black Friday, up 5.9% on a year ago.
Smartphone sales were up 21% over last year and those who were not buying were, as a start, browsing, with whopping 61% of all online traffic to retailers coming from smartphones, up 15.8% since last year.
As with yesterday, e-commerce “giants” with over $1 billion in sales annually were doing better than smaller sites: they had more smartphone sales, and 66% conversions on browsers on smartphones, Adobe said. They have overall also seen a 62% boost in sales this season, versus 27% for smaller retailers.
As with the Thanksgiving sales patterns — when bigger retailers also appeared to do better than their smaller counterparts — there are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the bigger sites have a wider selection of goods and can afford to take hits with deep discounts on some items, in order to lure users in to add other items to their shopping cars that are not as deeply discounted. Or, bigger online retailers can simply afford to give bigger markdowns.
The other is that the bigger stores often have more flexible delivery options. Adobe noted that those using click-and-collect orders, or buy online, pick up in store / curbside grew by 43 percent.
It will be interesting to see how and if patterns change for smaller retailers on Sunday, which is being dubbed “small business Sunday” to focus on buying from smaller and independent shops. Shoppers have already spent $470 million, and Adobe believes it will pass the $3 billion mark. Cyber Monday, the biggest of them all, is expected to make $9.4 billion in sales.
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A Leak-Prone White House Finally Manages to Keep a Secret
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On the Road with Mikaela Shiffrin, the Olympic Gold Medalist
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A Census Whodunit: Why Was the Citizenship Question Added?
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A Pennsylvania County’s Election Day Nightmare Underscores Voting Machine Concerns
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From a Stall in San Diego, a Somali Tailor Weaves a New Life
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The Suburbs Are Kicking the Animals Out. Enter the Animal Rescue Squad.
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A Photographer Who Tours With Beyoncé and Jay-Z
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Spain’s Leftist Outsiders Are on the Verge of Getting Inside
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How an Anti-Brexit London District Could Help Boris Johnson Triumph
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Friday, 29 November 2019
3 Children in Arizona Are Missing After Vehicle Is Swept Away in Creek
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A Relationship Built on Family and Faith
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Quotation of the Day: Iraqi Leader Says He’ll Step Down as Unrest Builds
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C&L's Late Nite Music Club With Omni
Skeletal but portentous. That's one way to describe the sound that Atlanta band Omni created on their previous releases. Such a description still works for their latest album (and their first for Sub Pop) Networker. Amid, the throb of the bass and the wiry lash of guitars though, there's a vista of frazzled melodies that the band explores too.
What are you listening to tonight?
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DC Comics Yields To Chinese, Drop Batman Poster After Claim It Supports Hong Kong
Commercial considerations in 2019 mean bowing down to the almighty Chinese, no matter how ludicrous their claims and demands.
Source: Variety
DC Comics has yanked a poster for a new Batman title from its social media accounts after the image drew criticism from Chinese commenters who said it appeared to support the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
The artwork depicts Batman throwing a Molotov cocktail against a backdrop of hot-pink words spelling out the new comic book’s tagline, “the future is young.” It was posted on DC Comics’ Twitter and Instagram accounts; both platforms are blocked in mainland China. The poster was meant to promote a forthcoming DC Black Label comic called “Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child,” due to hit shelves Dec. 11. DC Black Label is an imprint that seeks to appeal to an older-skewing readership through reprints and original limited series.
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Seymour Siwoff, Master of Sports Statistics, Is Dead at 99
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3 Young People Stabbed on Busy Hague Street, Setting Off Alarm in Dutch City
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Shmoo Cake, Persians and Spudnuts: Touring Canada’s Regional Cuisine
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News Quiz: Richard Spencer, Uber, Thanksgiving
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Meet the Man Loosening Bank Regulation, One Detail at a Time
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Black Friday Sale: 2-for-1 passes to Disrupt Berlin
Synchronize your watches startup fans, and get ready to score serious savings on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. For today only, you can get 2 passes for the price of one. Our Black Friday sale starts now and runs through 11:59pm CET on 29 November. Don’t miss out!
Simply purchase a pass to Disrupt Berlin now (Founder passes start at just €645 + VAT), and you’ll get two passes for the price of one. Split the cost with a colleague, gift the pass to a client or bring a member of your team to Disrupt. No matter how you choose to use that extra pass, you’ll reap extra value. Go BOGO — buy your passes — before the 24-hour clock runs out.
Now you and your buddy can get ready to make the most out of two program – and opportunity-packed days in Berlin. Connection is the name of the game at Disrupt events, and there’s no better place to start promising conversations than Startup Alley. You’ll find hundreds of early-stage startups and sponsors exhibiting an array of products, platforms and services that span the tech spectrum.
Looking for customers, collaborators, incubators, investors? Need manufacturing advice or simply want to talk shop with other founders? Startup Alley has that and more. Be sure to check out the TC Top Picks — our hand-picked cohort of exceptional startups that represent the best in these specific tech categories: AI/Machine Learning, BioTech/HealthTech, Blockchain, FinTech, Mobility, Privacy/Security, Retail/eCommerce, Robotics/IoT/Hardware, SaaS and Social Impact & Education.
There’s plenty to experience outside the Alley, and the Disrupt Berlin agenda can help you make the most of your time. Be in the room when TechCrunch editors interview CEOs from companies such as Away, UIPath and Naspers, as well as leading investors from Atomico, SoftBank and GV.
If you’re a founder (aspiring or otherwise), don’t miss what goes down on the Extra Crunch stage. You’ll hear panelists discuss important startup trends and offer actionable tips and advice on topics like scaling a business, product management, raising money and building a brand.
There’s so much more to experience at Disrupt Berlin: The Hackathon, the always-epic Startup Battlefield pitch competition, workshops and Q&A Sessions. It all happens on 11-12 December, and now you have 24 hours to double up on value. Buy your pass before the clock runs out at 11:59pm CET on 29 November, and you’ll get a second one free. Go BOGO!
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Thursday, 28 November 2019
En Escocia se juega el destino del brexit y el del Reino Unido
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Art Basel Miami, Where Big Money Meets Bigger Money
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Families of Hillsborough Victims Are Again Left Without Answers
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