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Black Friday saw $648 million in online sales, making it the heaviest online spending day to date in 2010 and representing a 9 percent increase versus Black Friday 2009.

ChannelAdvisor announced that its customers achieved record-breaking sales for Thanksgiving, Black Friday and throughout the holiday weekend, led by Amazon.

H&M has collaborated with design consultancy firm UXUS to create H&M Home stores, which now are open in select locations in Europe. Within the stores, items are presented in a showroom environment, with shoppers placing magnetic stickers — which represent products — on a board that they take to the cashier to collect the items from the storeroom.

Looking to get the biggest bang for their buck this holiday season, a record number of Americans will hit retailers’ websites this Cyber Monday to take advantage of one-day-only deals, percentage-off websites and free shipping offers.

eBay shoppers are now able to buy toys directly from Toys"R"Us, which opened a store on eBay just in time for the holiday shopping season.

Website monitoring startup WatchMouse is now watching the top 100 retail websites for availability around the holiday shopping season. The startup tested retail sites including Apple, Amazon, Best Buy, Borders, Overstock, Wal-Mart and Zappos for availability and performance during the month leading up to and including Thanksgiving Day, November 25 and Black Friday, November 26.

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Nov. 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading online retailer Buy.com(R) today reported its best Black Friday performance in company history, with more than 45 percent year-over-year sales growth on the Buy.com site (as of 5 p.m. PST on Friday, Nov. 26). A major driver of the company's overall growth included sales through Buy.com's marketplace, which grew by more than 100 percent compared to Black Friday of last year. Consumers flocked in record numbers to Buy.com, which offers the e-commerce industry's best 45-day return policy (with no restocking fees), free shipping with no minimum purchase on nearly 2.7

J. Crew says it will be taken private in a $3 billion deal with two investment firms, including its former parent TPG Capital.

ROTHERHAM, U.K. (BRAIN)?Planet X, a U.K. based Internet bicycle retailer, purchased all of Titus assets from Factors Southwest late Tuesday, November 23. Factors Southwest, Titus major lender, foreclosed on the Arizona based bicycle company on November 9 due to failure to keep up its loan payments. Factors Southwest initiated a public auction to get Titus into new owners hands as quickly as possible. Factors Southwest entertained bids from interested parties in two separate rounds of bidding. The second round concluded Tuesday, with Planet X placing the winning bid. Planet X sells pavement bikes under its Planet X brand and

Shoutlet announced its Shop & Share feature, a simple tool that helps brands create a tailored digital storefront in Facebook to drive e-commerce efforts.