The amount people spent online was expected to account for 12% of total retail spending, they added.
Half of dollars spent online at U.S. Web sites originated from work computers, up slightly from last year, comScore reported.
The Office for National Statistics figures showed that the amount spent online accounted for 10.1% of all retail spending, excluding fuel.
In this new world where so much of our time is spent online, the aesthetics and safety of our constructed environment are more important than ever.
The Internet Crime Report might count, for example, how often a Web browsers become infected with malware, as a percent of the amount of time being spent online.
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In fact, the single Facebook.com site accounted for 14.6% of all time spent online, while all Google Sites (including YouTube) were second at 10.8%, and all Yahoo!
Video ads accounted for 12.7% of all videos viewed and 1.2% of all minutes users spent viewing online videos.
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Nielsen also reported that the time spent watching online videos increased 45% for the month of January compared to a year ago.
Early in 2012, Pinero said, time spent by Xbox users watching videos and other entertainment content had surpassed time spent on online gaming.
Likewise, time spent watching sport was time not spent shopping online.
Americans spent more online in November to the start of the holiday season and began to replace cars and rebuild in the Northeast after Superstorm Sandy.
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Instead of enjoying family time, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban spent Christmas Eve online.
Jeremy Bailenson and Nick Yee, of Stanford University, have spent years studying online behaviour in other contexts.
Like the growth of social applications alongside IM, more widespread access to better tools leads to more time spent being interactive online.
For all the billions of dollars being spent and collected online, the code at the core of e-commerce remains highly fragmented--and that creates communication breakdowns within the overall system.
Its advocates will wax poetic about audience size and time spent being entertained online, as if the Super Bowl content was the same as a new movie or pop song release.
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But before I was officially ready to take the home-ownership plunge, I reached out to my family and friends for advice and spent some time doing online research.
Amazon, for example, spent billions to create its online storefront infrastructure and create a brand.
Ellis spent his career in the online ad network business, previously serving as the COO of marketing network Webxu.
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Rees had spent months researching the company online and reading medical reports.
Thus we evaluate consumers not on their total online time, but on how much of their online time was spent engaged with social media.
Mr Molen and his online colleagues had spent four years building BoB into the dominant force in a game where 200, 000 players battle it out in an online galaxy of spaceships and planets.
The Internet shifts the bargaining power from sellers to consumers through comparison-shopping that lets consumers get better value per dollar spent Black Friday online transactions increased by 30 percent, while the average price per ticket was down 11 percent, according to Chasepaymentech.
Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.
MySolitaire.com, another online diamond business, spent January to June of 2006 in the supplemental index.
Moreover, the average user spent almost seven more hours watching online video compared to a year before.
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But anyone who has spent a lot of time dating online, and not just dabbling, has his or her share of horror stories, too.
It was the smartest social network on the internet, and I spent about 99% of my online social networking time there interacting with good people of diverse views who shared really smart posts from across the internet.
And it also asked ministers to make clear what other action was being taken to tackle sectarianism and how much money was being spent on training police to deal with online hate crime.
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