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The Mall of America is offering a special perk to Twitter followers this holiday shopping season: reserved parking on the busiest shopping day of the year in its Big Secret Parking Party, or #bspp.

Germany’s largest online shopping club for fashion and lifestyle, Brands4friends.de has been acquired by eBay for $197 million in a cash deal, the U.S. online auction house announced.

The holiday shopping rush is in full swing and consumers who have yet to complete their shopping are hungry for last-minute sales and deals. How far along are consumers in their holiday shopping? Thirty-five percent of respondents to a recent survey from Prospectiv, an online performance marketing firm, said that they hadn't yet started their holiday shopping and 18 percent had just started.

LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 21, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ultimate Sports, Inc. , a manufacturer and supplier to the recreational vehicle industry, issued an update today on the company's progress. Ultimate Sports has shown an over 10% increase in revenue over last year. The company also looks forward to adding a new ski to its product line next year, and to initiating the new Thruster project. Kevin Metheny, President of Ultimate Sports, states, "We are pleased with our more than 10% increase in revenue, and are looking forward to launching 2011 with new products in our catalog." About Ultimate Sports,

DENVER, CO (BRAIN)—Primal Wear has redesigned its business-to-business Web site, primaldealer.com, as well as its Online Dealer Sales Program. Navigation improvements allow retailers to easily browse between the company's branded and custom 2011 road, mountain, triathlon and lifestyle clothing lines, according to a press release. Primal's product line growth is reflected with expanded product content and detailed technology descriptions of proprietary fabrics and chamois designs. While ordering a given item, the site indicates if it has been carried by the shop before and if order quantities are shippable. The shopping cart is clearly visible on the left side of

Many retail advertisers mistakenly scale back their search campaigns after Christmas, but lots of search traffic and sales occur after Dec. 25. You might be surprised to learn that 9 percent of consumers don’t even begin their holiday shopping until post Christmas.

Online marketplace Bonanza made some design changes to its site. Some minor cosmetic changes to the booth pages have updated the pages to be more consistent with the site's new style. Bonanza also updated its "item sold" version of the item detail page to make it look less "scary" and to add some information at the top, such as including other items of interest for sale from the same booth. Bonanza has also been experimenting with a different version of the item pop-ups on search results pages: "The goal with the new pop-up is to provide the shopper with

ATLANTA, Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oxford Industries, Inc. J. Hicks Lanier, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Industries, Inc., commented, "We are excited to add the Lilly Pulitzer brand to our growing platform of lifestyle apparel brands. Scott Beaumont, Jim Bradbeer and their team have done an exceptional job over the last 17 years of nurturing and developing the remarkable brand DNA originally created by Lilly Pulitzer in the late 1950's. They share our values and our strategic vision for how to continue to grow this iconic brand. We believe this business is an excellent fit with

Online merchant Buy.com launched an app that uses bar-code and voice-recognition technology to let users compare prices set by Buy.com's merchants with those at brick-and-mortar stores. Shoppers can either scan bar codes or speak the name of the product to use the feature.

JCPenney has signed up to use the SWAGG application, providing customers with mobile access to its loyalty program as well as special deals and targeted offers.