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11 Main Unveils Mobile Shopping App

| Tim Parry

Alibaba-owned ecommerce marketplace 11 Main has unveiled its new mobile shopping applications for iPhone, iPod touch and Android, and added that an iPad version coming later this year. Here’s how 11 Main says its apps will provide a better mobile user experience.

Top 5 Holiday Shopping Trend Predictions

| Adam Forrest

It’s the time of the year when retailers start running the holiday programs that has been in the works for months. Here are the top five trend predictions for the holiday shopping season.

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Alibaba Reports Singles Day Sales Up 62% to $9.3B

| Mike O'Brien

While Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba reported that Singles Day 2014 – 11.11 – the world’s largest shopping day, brought in more than $9.3 billion in sales, up 62% from 2013, the global phenomenon has yet to make a significant impact in the U.S.