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• Online sales: 16% in the second quarter

e-commerce is better over the period. Online sales are up 16%, according to FEVAD (Federation of e-commece and Distance Selling). The average basket back as at 87 euros. The marketplaces and mobile sales are up sharply observes Fevad: 120% for sales in the mobile internet (smartphones and tablets, mobile sites and applications). To date, there are over 36 million shoppers in France.

• Birth of a powerful electronic group

American group Applied Materials, the world’s leading manufacturer of semiconductors, today announced the acquisition of its Japanese competitor Tokyo Electron. An agreement relating to $ 29 billion the weight of this new giant in the production of equipment for the manufacture of microchips.

• Twitter launches new notifications feature

Twitter has unveiled the United States a new feature in the recommendations tweets and accounts to follow on its Android and iOS apps. The new notification will leverage the unique data Twitter has to recommend new accounts to follow. Twitter tests its new social features via an experimental entity dedicated and called @ magicrecs.

• new Kindle at Amazon

e-commerce giant is launching a new version of its Kindle tablet: the “Kindle Fire HDX” grouped under three models (HD, and HDX HDX7 8.9), which completes the range of Kindle and comes compete with the Apple iPad mini. Featuring a rich many updates high-resolution screen, and a storage capacity of 16GB, the tablet will be sold 139 dollars from October 18 in the United States.

• Soon a new smartphone from Samsung

Korean giant could present a new mobile next month. According to Reuters, Samsung will launch a smartphone with a curved screen.

• Alibaba buys Kanbox the “Dropbox” Chinese

Alibaba e-commerce group has just acquired Kanbox, a start-up specializing in data storage in the cloud, which has over 15 million users. Kanbox offers to share, synchronize its data (pictures, videos ..), PC and mobile. Rivals Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, also engaged in a strategic battle in the mobile cloud storage.

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