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• Black Friday surpasses $US1bn in online sales

  Online sales for Black Friday topped $US1 billion for the first time, according to online tracker comScore.

• Google to pay Mozilla $300M yearly in new search deal, says report

  Google promised to pay Mozilla almost $300 million annually to keep its search engine as the default in Firefox, according to a report today on AllThingsD, a blog operated by the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech rises on sales, economic news

  Tech stocks looked strong Friday morning on the back of a week of upbeat surveys on small business and online spending, positive news about enterprise hardware and hopeful reports on U.S. employment and the European debt crisis.

• Cyber Monday sales break record, surpass $1.25 billion

  Consumers took full advantage of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/112811-cyber-monday-253486.html">Cyber Monday</a> deals, racking up a record-breaking $1.25 billion worth of online purchases on the first business day of the week following Thanksgiving.

• Big Cyber Monday expected to follow strong Black Friday

  If Black Friday was any indication of a move to online shopping, e-tailers on Cyber Monday may be headed to a record breaking sales day.

• Holiday e-commerce spending set to grow 15%

  Based on the first three weeks of November, comScore is forecasting 15% growth in e-commerce spending for the 2011 holiday season.

• Social networking use among mobile users grows in Europe

  The number people accessing social networking sites in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. using their mobile phone has grown by 44 percent in the last year, market research company comScore said on Monday.

• AT&T is top business ISP, with Verizon second

  AT&amp;T was the biggest Internet service provider for U.S. businesses in September, with 20% of the total business Internet traffic, followed by Verizon with a 12% share, online tracking and analytics firm comScore said Tuesday.

• Wall Street Beat: IT rebounds as Nvidia, Cisco shares rise

  With Nvidia and Cisco reporting results, there was some good news on the chip and networking front this week that, with the help of a successful debt offering by Italy that eased economic concerns, helped fuel a rise in IT vendors' shares Friday morning.

• ComScore: U.S. online retail sales up 13 percent in Q3

  The U.S. online retail market looks solid as the busy holiday shopping season gets under way, although economic uncertainty remains, according to a study from comScore.

• 40M U.S. mobile users access social nets every day

  There's a good chance that if you didn't access Facebook or Twitter last year, you do today.

• Study: Many websites 'leaking' personal info to other firms

  Many top websites share their visitors' names, usernames or other personal information with their partners without telling users and, in some cases, without knowing they're doing it, according to a new study from Stanford University.

• Android keeps growing, while RIM continues sharp decline

  Android smartphone users in the U.S. grew to an even greater share in comScore's latest ranking, hitting 43.7%, while iPhone users grew slightly to 27.3%.

• Facebook, Twitter boom despite Google+ challenge

  Despite Google+'s making a huge splash in the social networking world, rivals Facebook and Twitter continue to grow at dramatic rates.

• China's Web population a figure hard to pin down

  Depending on how you count, China can have as many as 450 million Web users, or just 300 million.