TheFind Announces Mobile Trends and Must-Have Products From the Year's Biggest Holiday Shopping Weekend

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TheFind, the largest personalized shopping platform in North America, today announced its top searched products from Black Friday and Cyber Monday. TheFind pinpointed searches in leading categories including toys, accessories, home appliances and electronics to give consumers a picture of what products are trending for the holiday season.

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With over one million searches per day, TheFind saw Rainbow Loom DIY bracelet makers and Furby Booms as top searched toys while Pandora Charms and Michael Kors watches were the must-have items in women's accessories. The newly released Keurig Vue Single Serve Coffeemaker and the classic KitchenAid Artisan mixer led shoppers' lists in home appliances.  

TheFind saw top electronic gifts ranged from pricey picks like Apple's iPad Mini to more fiscal options like the Kindle Fire HD and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. An unforeseen chart topper was wearable fitness accessory Fitbit® Force which was searched nearly the same number of times as longstanding fan-favorite, Nike+ FuelBand.

From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, TheFind witnessed a 40% increase in mobile downloads which led to an increase of over 35% in overall mobile traffic compared to last year.

"Shoppers want the type of comprehensive results we are delivering and have become increasingly comfortable in leveraging TheFind regardless of platform," says Ramneek Bhasin, GM of Mobile at TheFind. "Mobile data at TheFind shows that users are getting more comfortable with search and more importantly, transactions on their mobile devices. Users are taking advantage of our price compare feature to get the best deals available with retailer's price match policies."

About TheFind
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you've bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts.

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TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company. Learn more by visiting us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/thefind-inc.

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