Online Holiday Sales a Cyber Success

According to online measurement company ComScore, e-commerce sales this holiday season rose 13 percent to $30.8 billion, up from $27.4 billion during the 2009 holiday season. Online sales during the final week of the holiday season were $2.5 billion, up 17 percent from $2.1 billion for the same week last year. And Thanksgiving Day sales soared 28 percent over last Thanksgiving to $407 million, while Cyber Monday sales reached slightly more than $1 billion, up 16 percent from last year.