Online shopping up 13 percent this holiday season

Did you hit the malls on Black Friday — or maybe do your shopping online? New research from comScore says U.S. online merchants saw $648 million in sales this year during Black Friday. That’s an increase of 9 percent from last year, reports Venture Beat . “Since the beginning of November … people have spent $11.6 billion on Web shopping, a 13 percent increase,” Venture Beat continued. These numbers don’t reflect Cyber Monday, the online shopping extravaganza that takes…