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Christmas holiday season will make or break mobile vendors

Shaun Nichols

01 December 2011 • 4 min read

Smartphone makers face critical times as consumers take to the stores

The holiday shopping season kicked off last week as consumers lined up to take advantage of Black Friday retail sales. Three days later, online retailers celebrated their own shopping bonanza as...

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