ONLINE SALES RISE:
Online sales of consumer goods worldwide totaled $6 billion last month, up 26 percent from the year-earlier month, according to ComScore Networks Inc., an Internet research firm. Contributing to the rise were online sales of computer hardware, which grew 30 percent to $927 million, and travel services, which grew 32 percent to $2.9 billion. ComScore tracks the Internet surfing and purchasing habits of 1.5million people around the world, 1.1 million of whom are in the United States.
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