Early reports for Thanksgiving Black Friday sales show a record number of consumers using their mobile devices for shopping. Software firm Adobe, which tracks sales at 4,500 websites, predicts $1.7 billion will be spent for the 24-hour Thursday period. Researcher Shoppertrack says retail stores rang up $3.2 billion in sales last Thanksgiving, while the Thursday/Friday period total was some $12.29 billion in sales at retail. Target CEO Brian Cornell spoke to reporters shortly after stores opened Thursday, and said he saw “really strong traffic,” in-store and expects “record breaking results,” for online. “We’re seeing ... (full story)