Holiday:

• Cyber Monday online sales rose 17% to $2B. Link
• Targeting customers on mobile during holiday shopping season. Link
• Walmart reports 70% of Thanksgiving traffic from mobile. Link
• Walmart has record Cyber Monday as shoppers seek deals. Link
• Target turns its stores into one big mobile game this holiday season. Link
• Black Friday: Whose advertising made you spend? Link
• Cyber Monday shoppers may want to check out these YouTube channels. Link
• Cyber Monday, Green Monday and the impact worldwide. Link
• Brands get creative with holiday pop-up stores. Link

Retailer + Brand News:

• Amazon gets $5M from New York to being 500 jobs to Manhattan. Link
• Starbucks, facing saturated market, looks to the high end. Link
• Aeropostale to close 75 stores. Link
• Amazon unveils its own line of diapers. Link
• Khol’s online profitability less than half of that in stores. Link
• Simon Malls and eBay partner for “connected” mall experience. Link
• Smal retailers jump on the subscription bandwagon. Link
• Bebe confirms payment card data breach. Link
• Poshmark hits $100M in annual revenue for its fashion resell business, begins luxury goods authentication. Link
• Amazon goes after Honest.com with Elements, a prime-only lineup of ethical home essentials. Link
• eBay debuts “Innovators Collective,” a tech-focused section featuring new lifestyle products, electronics and more. Link
• Intel teams with Luxottica to build the future of smart eyewear. Link
• Gap’s sales go into a 3-month slide following ‘dress normal’ ad campaign failure. Link
• Deb stores files for bankruptcy. Link
• Retailers adjust as lines between in store and digital shopping blurs. Link
• Unraveling Anthropologie’s intoxicating store experience. Link
• American Eagle profits fell 63% this quarter. Link
• You can now rent ugly holiday sweaters on Rent the Runway. Link

Social Media + Marketing:

• Say Media buys out investors as it exits the media business and focuses on its publishing platform. Link
• Facebook relaunches Slingshot as a Snapchat stories-style lifecasting app. Link
• Connexity (formerly Shopzille) buys Become.com to grow its price comparison business. Link
• Saavn partners with Twitter to bring tweet-powered radio to its streaming service. Link
• Gangnam style has been viewed so many times it broke YouTube’s code. Link
• Twitter improves tools for users to report harassment. Link
• Google’s new target audience: kids. Link
• Tumblr now has ‘buy,’ ‘pledge,’ and ‘get involved’ buttons. Link
• Twitter copies Instagram with new adjustable photo filters. Link
• Liberty London turns Instagram likes into loyalty perks. Link
• REI’s great customer service hits the big screen. Link

Start-ups:

• Uber confirms new $1.2B funding round at $40B valuation. Link
• Shoes of Prey raises $5.5M for custom footwear. Link
• Fit.me buys Clothes horse, consolidating the clothing-fit technology sector. Link
• Stripe raises $70M. Link

International:

[APAC]

• L’Occitane launches online shop on Alibaba’s Tmall site. Link
• Tujia.com aims to be more than online vacation rental portal. Link

[AU]

• Sephora launches in Sydney. Link

Mobile, Tablet, + Wearables:

• How Starbucks will build on mobile order to launch delivery service in 2015. Link
• Yahoo will pass Twitter in mobile ad revenue next year. Link
• Six drivers of the $7B mobile internet. Link
• App Annie now tracks user demographics, sentiment and more. Link
• Line Pay, the new messaging app’s mobile payment service will make its global debut soon. Link
• Square launches iOS app for food delivery service Caviar. Link
• Uber hires a mobile team in Amsterdam to staff a new mobile dev shop in the city. Link
• Starbucks brews iBeacon strategy to support premium coffee play. Link
• Skype founder launches new messaging app, Wire. Link
• The softer and more wearable future of wearables. Link

Other:

• Comcast makes it more and more difficult to opt out of internet sharing. Link
• Amazon has launched a GrubHub rival for food takeout and delivery. Link
• Eye scanner may replace password logins. Link