Online Shopping is growing, both in the US and internationally. However, there are pretty notable differences in the ways that people engage the online marketplace, based on such factors as, age, race and gender (among others). This graphic takes a look at who is shopping online, it US data however...please remember to triangulate stats to check for accuracy before using them in your e-book and please remember to reference accurately and complete your bibliography for every item.
With 59% of us banking online and given the steady stream of news about security breaches exposing millions of account numbers and personal info, here's an infographic on the importance of secure online banking. According to the results of a 2011 JustAskGemalto.com poll, 48% of consumers do not know the steps their bank may or may not have taken to keep them secure while banking online.
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An infographic on The History of Online Shopping is an interesting one, and much longer than you might think. Beginning in the early days of the modern computer and only allowing simple B2B transactions it has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry that all of us use everyday… …but where did it all begin?
More than 3.1 million account names with encrypted security questions, 2.9 million usernames, and nearly 90,000 account usernames with bank account details were stolen.
Betfair said it did not inform its
registered customers of the attack
The betting group said it had contacted the Australian Federal Police and German authorities over the attack
Give As You Live suggests that some of the money now spent on buying stuff online could go to charitable causes - very easily The "Give As You Live" campaign is trying to get people to give some of the money now spent on internet shopping to help charitable causes - the idea being that every time someone shops online, a percentage of the spend can be donated to any UK charity of their choice.