That followed a sales report from retail bellwether John Lewis that showed its own record holiday season.

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The report acts as a bellwether for government behaviour around the world, a Google spokeswoman told the BBC.

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Mary Meeker's Internet Report is often considered a technology bellwether, and it's certainly living up to that reputation in the 2013 study.

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The data coming in from bellwether companies Apple, IBM, Intel, and others as they report their earnings for the first quarter of 2011 require some parsing to understand and fit together.

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