Black Friday sales top $ 2 billion

- Sales figures from Black Friday, the shopping for Christmas, show that American consumers continued their spending for the first time in history by the limit of $ 2 billion.

According to data from researcher Adobe Digital Insights has $ 336 million in planned to sell growth to over $ 2 billion, an increase of 15.6% compared to last year. Christmas is traditionally the big feast gift for Americans.

Expected to give Americans a record amount, $ 820 million, from mobile devices such as smartphones in particular. Apple's iOS puts thereby stole a march on, with almost $ 30 difference per order, according to Adobe.

The data collector expects sales in the same volume on Cyber ​​Monday, when Americans make online purchases their last.