But let's say the Internet sales-tax bill becomes law, and Senator Cruz is sitting at home in Houston, doing some online shopping.

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He ended up doing a deal with online shopping site Kaboodle and had to pull it off with no engineers.

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Newer professions are also moving online, with a majority of Koreans now doing their banking, shopping, securities investing and taxes online.

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Users do the same routine shopping and sharing of deals that they are already doing with their favorite online stores, except now they are doing it through the Ark website.

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This holiday season, a lot of predictable trends are unfolding: Online retail is growing faster than brick-and-mortar shopping, consumers are increasingly doing in-store, product price comparisons from their smart phones, etc, etc.

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