US online shopping hit a record high on Cyber Monday with people racking up dollars 1.25 billion worth of purchases on the Internet, according to comScore. Sales at US e-commerce sites topped last year's Cyber Monday figures by 22 percent, the industry tracker reported.
The year-end holiday shopping season was starting off strong online, with US Internet shops seeing $15 billion in sales between the start of November and Cyber Monday, according to comScore. Cyber Monday was launched in 2005 by a US national retail association to bring online shopping into the mainstream.