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This story was originally published on March 10, 2012, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series ...

OK, it's time to officially close the book on the 2011 holiday retail season and to shift our attention forward to 2012. For me personally, what makes it difficult to stop looking back are the new trends that emerged that will forever change holiday shopping. By now you know the story: ...

"We expected the holiday season to be good this year," John Squire, chief strategy officer with IBM Smarter Commerce, told the E-Commerce Times. "We forecasted November online sales would be up 15 percent this year compared to November 2010. Clearly, though, we were too conservative in our estimates. We never expected Thanksgiving or Black Friday to be this good." ...

It's possible that Cyber Monday sales could be up as much as 35 percent this year, compared to last, predicted IBM Smarter Commerce Chief Strategy Officer John Squire Considering that Cyber Monday sales reached $1 billion last year, according to comScore, "that is a significan...

Five leading publishers -- Time Warner, Conde Nast, Hearst, News Corp., and Meredith, publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal and Family Circle, among others -- are participating in the project, which is led by Time Inc. Senior Vice President John Squires. Its goal is to create a publishing platform, a digital storefront, a reading app and new opportunities for online advertising.

The project, led by Time executive John Squires, aims to create a robust publishing platform, a digital storefront, a reading app and new opportunities for online advertising. Teaming Up Digitally ...

Shoppers are more focused now, the research firm stated. "Consumers are sticking to a list and coming in and buying just what they want," John Squire, chief strategy officer at Coremetrics, told the E-Commerce Times. That was helped by greater site design savvy on the part of...

Time's executive vice president John Squires will reportedly leave his post to become the interim head of the new company for six months until a permanent chief is appointed The Bits and Bytes of the Effort ...

"It's been called 'the case of the century,' and to a large extent I have to agree," John Squires, an attorney with Chadbourne & Parke, told the E-Commerce Times. "It could turn around centuries of law established by Congress that cuts across every industry. There is a lot at stake." ...