Salesforce.com Inc. forecasts that this year’s Black Friday will be the busiest online shopping day in U.S. history, beating Cyber Monday for the second consecutive year. The most popular time for e-commerce visits and orders is from 8pm to 10pm and, the company said in a Monday release, shoppers will have half of their shopping done by Dec. 3 and 80% done by Dec. 15. Orders placed on mobile phones will approach 40% on big shopping days like Black Friday, the company predicted, and 40% of millennials ages 18 to 36 are using voice-enabled assistants like Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa and Apple Inc.’s Siri. Salesforce shares are about flat in premarket trading and up 38.7% for the year so far. The S&P 500 index is up 11.8% for 2017 so far.
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