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It’s holiday shopping crunch time, but there’s no need to stress. By adding a few tech tricks to your shopping repertoire, you can have a quicker, potentially less expensive and possibly more fun experience than ever before. And there may even be less cause for returning unwanted gifts after Christmas. Remember the days of getting an actual toy catalog and having children flip through the pages? It was a full afternoon activity for kids to sit down, get their imaginations spinning and circle the coveted gifts they wanted on their wish list. Even though physical toy catalogs may be a thing of the past, Amazon has a similar online option for parents and kids to discover. The Virtual Holiday Shop and Virtual Toy Shop use immersive 3D to create an interactive website that will help shoppers feel inspired and maybe discover new products along the way. | By Amy Iverson

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A federal appeals court ruled against TikTok and its Chinese parent company Friday, upholding a law that would require app stores and hosting services to ban the popular short-form video app if ByteDance doesn’t divest. The decision increased the likelihood that TikTok — which is used by around 170 million Americans each month, according to Reuters — will be banned in the United States on Jan. 19. But on Monday, TikTok and ByteDance asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for more time to sort out their American future — and more time for President-elect Donald Trump to weigh in. | By Kelsey Dallas

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In a wide-ranging Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” President-elect Donald Trump softened his previous position on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, backing off previous threats to fire the head of the central bank whom Trump appointed to the position in 2018. When asked by moderator Kristen Welker about whether he has plans to ask or order Powell to step down from his chairmanship, which runs through 2026, Trump said, “I don’t.” “No, I don’t think so. I don’t see it,” the president-elect said. “But, I don’t — I think if I told him to, he would. But if I asked him to, he probably wouldn’t. But if I told him to, he would.” | By Art Raymond

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Many Americans didn’t hold back their wallets during the biggest shopping week of the year. Adobe Analytics reported $10.8 billion in sales, a 10.2% increase compared to last year’s. Three days later, Cyber Monday hit a record $13.3 billion in online spending. From Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, $41.1 billion was spent online in the U.S. Wesley Rebisz, CSM, a senior general manager at Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, told Forbes that the foot traffic on Black Friday was the highest it had been since the pandemic. “Gen Z really showed up to shop,” Rebisz said. “They turned out very strongly in the morning and stayed the whole day.” | By Emma Pitts

U.S. employment rolls grew by 227,000 new positions in November, according to a new federal report released Friday, a marked recovery from dismal October jobs numbers that were undermined by two major storms and a strike by Boeing machinists that saw over 30,000 workers walk off the job. The annual unemployment rate also creeped up in November, rising to 4.2% from October’s 4.1%, while the group of unemployed workers numbered 7.1 million last month. A year ago, the U.S. unemployment rate came in at 3.7% with 6.3 million unemployed. | By Art Raymond

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