He was right: On Thanksgiving Day 2012, 10.6% of all online traffic came from the iPad.
In fact, some shoppers were able to get in a few laps around the store on Thanksgiving day.
Instagram got 5 million photo uploads on Thanksgiving day. 300 million photos are uploaded on Facebook every day.
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"It's an incredible tradition, playing on Thanksgiving Day, " Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.
The Wall Street Journal reported on this trend on Thanksgiving Day.
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans everywhere gather with family and friends to recount the joys and blessings of the past year.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- Thanksgiving Day, 2012
Can we not even sit still for a few hours with close friends and family and count our blessings on Thanksgiving day?
They get about 12, 000 phone calls on Thanksgiving Day alone from customers in a jam that need quick advice and emergency cooking tips.
Now, for the first time, Walmart, Target, Sears and some other stores opened in most states as early as 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
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The Cuban boy arrived in South Florida on Thanksgiving Day 1999.
On Thanksgiving Day, individuals from all walks of life come together to celebrate this most American tradition, grateful for the blessings of family, community, and country.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- Thanksgiving Day, 2012
On Thanksgiving Day Ford Field will host roughly 65, 000 fans.
This comes even after Gap tried to stay competitive during the Black Friday weekend, keeping many stores open on Thanksgiving Day and offering deep discounts at all three of its chains.
Online sales were up 39.3% on Thanksgiving Day and 24.3% on Black Friday compared to the same days last year, according to IBM's Coremetrics, which tracks real-time data from 500 retailers.
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Instead Walmart decided it was going to open its doors earlier on Thanksgiving day - hoping to generate enough revenue to help offset what might be an otherwise disappointing current quarter.
Fitzpatrick and Link, who supervise security checkpoints at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, are going Italian on Thanksgiving Day and will be making pasta salad and baked ziti, respectively, for staff potlucks.
They point to the case of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's daughter, Georgina, who adopted a pig from an animal shelter in New Jersey after superstorm Sandy and brought it to Gracie Mansion on Thanksgiving Day.
For those that generally like to shun Thanksgiving shopping but might like to sneak in some time on the computer before dinner, nearly half of those 97% will offer online specials on Thanksgiving Day itself.
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Postscript to the iPad versus iPhone debate: On Thanksgiving Day Henderson thought that it was possible the iPad would trump the iPhone and wind up being the mobile device to drive the most traffic to the retail web.
If such stores run Black Friday sales at all, they are likely to be small, limited, and with little in the way of artificially-induced shortages or stunt store openings on Thanksgiving Day or in the wee hours of Friday morning.
In Dallas, Elizabeth Etier and her sister Emily McKenzie said they had heard that some consumers and workers were angry that stores were opening earlier than ever on Thanksgiving Day, but they said they were grateful for Target's 9 p.m. opening.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week ending on Thanksgiving Day of each year as National Farm-City Week.
My guests make it vanish pretty quickly every year, but not as fast as my favorite dog once did on a Thanksgiving Day way back when.
The loophole was exposed on the Lions' Thanksgiving Day game when Schwartz threw the challenge flag on an 81-yard touchdown run by Houston's Justin Forsett.
Instagram had its busiest day ever on Thanksgiving, with 10 million photos shared mentioning turkey day-related words, the company said.
In previous years, online competitors piggybacked on Black Friday enthusiasm by offering their own deep, Thanksgiving Day discounts on their websites, and then following up with their own Cyber Monday extravaganzas.
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Moreover, the shares began trading on the day before Thanksgiving, a day when volume is lighter than usual.
Surely, if any airport would be packed with travelers, it would be DIA, at midday, on the day before Thanksgiving.
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