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...expectations, but picked up considerably in the last few shopping days before Christmas, with winter apparel - thanks to some cold days - finally getting off the ground. And the ultimate in lazy-man's shopping destinations - the Internet - looks to be having a better season than the mall, as Yahoo announced that Thanksgiving-to-Christmas online sales through its portal were up 86 percent from last year...
...Rappers rule the charts, with four placing in the Top 10: No. 10 Lil' Bow Wow, No. 6 Nelly, No. 3 Tupac Shakur and No. 2 Eminem. The Web's most wanted? Osama bin Laden. For more analysis on Web-search trends, check out the Yahoo! Buzz Index, which takes a daily snapshot of what's hot in various categories, and the Google Zeitgeist, which tracks entries head to head, such as PlayStation2 vs. Xbox...
Consumers are four times as likely to buy a product online if the website is in their preferred language, according to IDC, a research firm in Framingham, Mass. Some of the big dotcoms--Amazon, eBay and Yahoo--figured out this trend earlier than most, and report fast-growing revenues from overseas divisions, which generate indigenous content. But most U.S. firms have not yet done a great job of marketing to non-English speakers online. Last year just 37 of the large companies in the FORTUNE 100 operated non-English sites, according to Forrester Research, based in Cambridge, Mass...
...secret that bin Laden's terrorist army is Internet savvy. Hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta made his reservations on Americanairlines.com Some of his confederates seem to have communicated through Yahoo e-mail. And cell members went online to research the chemical-dispersing powers of crop dusters...
...Vision Thing: "I was always convinced subscriptions were the way to go, even when everyone else was betting on advertising models like Yahoo. I believe Napster will have a steady stream of subscription revenues in future...