Author: Megan Flores

January 19 is set to be the deciding date for the years-long conflict around TikTok’s future in the US. ByteDance, TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, has until Sunday to sell the app to a US company, as ordered by the US Justice Department, or face a ban. With over 170 million users in the US alone,…

This year’s shorter holiday selling season (27 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas), coupled with extended retail sales promotions, resulted in a slightly softer turnout for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend. An estimated 197 million people shopped online and in-store for BFCM. However, this figure still exceeds the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) earlier forecast of…