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Holiday e-commerce hits a record as shoppers choose phones over stores
2025-05-01 10:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
An article from Dive Brief Consumers sought out deals but inflation didnt really tamp down demand during the season, according to the latest figures from Adobe Analytics. Published Jan. 8, 2025 Daphne Howland Senior Reporter This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. This past holiday season, from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, online retail sales rose 8.7% year over year to a record $241.4 billion not adjusted for inflation, according to the most recent figures from Adobe Analytics.Mastercards SpendingPulse, which tracks spending from Nov. 1 to Dec. 24, found that online sales rose 6.7% and in-store sales rose just 2.9%.Shopping on phones also hit a milestone, with 54.5% of online transactions occurring there, up from 51.1% in 2023, according to Adobe.The 2024 holiday season showed that e-commerce is being reshaped by a consumer who now prefers to transact on smaller screens and lean on generative AI-powered services to shop more efficiently, Vivek Pandya, lea...
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Israeli police release Oscar-winning director
2025-05-01 07:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
CultureMoviesIsraeli-Palestinian conflictBy Natan Odenheimer, Aaron Boxerman and Adam RasgonMarch 26, 2025 7.17am, registeror subscribeto save articles for later.Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Jerusaluem: Israeli authorities have released a Palestinian director of an Oscar-winning documentary who was detained overnight, after what he and witnesses said was an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.Police said the filmmaker, Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of the documentary, No Other Land, was questioned along with two other Palestinians on suspicion of hurling stones, property damage and endangering regional security. All three deny the accusations, their lawyer said.The details of the episode are still not entirely clear, and both sides provided conflicting accounts of the events surrounding Ballals detention. But witnesses said the detention took place as a group of Israeli settlers some of whom were masked car...
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Nintendo announces 'Mario Kart World' during Switch 2 stream
2025-05-01 07:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Home > Entertainment > Games Start your engines, we're going off-road! By Shannon Connellan Shannon Connellan Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about everything (but not anything) across entertainment, tech, social good, science, and culture. Especially Australian horror. Read Full Bio onApril 2, 2025 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard LET'S GO. Credit: Screenshot: Nintendo After months of hype, predictions, and sneaky glimpses, Nintendo has confirmed a brand new Mario Kart game: Mario Kart World.Announced at the company's Nintendo Direct event on Wednesday, along with the Switch 2, the latest instalment of the Mario Kart franchise will launch exclusively on the console on the same day. The news comes months after Nintendo gave us a brief glimpse of the upcoming game in January's Switch teaser. SEE ALSO: Switch 2...
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