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Mobile Minutes: Online to offline; Social media on election day; Snapchat Spectacles; China ecommerce

Clicks to bricks: Online retailers find the lure of a store
Online shopping gets all the attention these days. But sometimes, there?s still no beating a physical store.
Read more at New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/style/clicks-to-bricks-online-retailers-find-the-lure-of-a-store.html?ref=technology

Why social media couldn't call Trump's victory
Spredfast, a social media analysis firm, used its data to try to pick Trump or Clinton as president-elect. Here's what happened.
Read more at CNET

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-president-republican-democrats/

Snapchat's Spectacles go on sale
VENICE BEACH, California ? Tech workers, social media enthusiasts, students and journalists flooded here first thing Thursday morning to get their hands on the coveted Snapchat Spectacles.
Read more at USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/11/10/snapchats-spectacles-go-sale/93603054/

China's packaging makers see profits squeezed as ecommerce boom draws new competitors
Chinese packaging makers are bracing themselves for Singles' Day on Friday, stocking up on cardboard and taking on staff ahead of an online shopping bonanza that shifts more goods than Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the United States combined.
Read more at Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-ecommerce-packaging-idUSKBN1350PK