Die E-Commerce Messe Paris (21.-23.9.2010) findet dieses Jahr zum 7. Mal statt. Dieses Jahr ist die Messe verstärkt europäisch ausgerichtet: Zu der Veranstaltung im September 2010 sind über 40.000 europäische E-Händler eingeladen. 30 Prozent der Aussteller kommen aus den europäischen Nachbarländern.

Der Shopsystem-Hersteller 4SELLERS betitelt sein Event, das am 30.07.2010 am Nürburgring stattfindet, stilgerecht “Auf Poleposition – das perfekte Setup für Ihren Online-Handel”.

E-commerce will take a 10% share of the UK’s retail market by the end of 2012, says a new report from Paypal. This will make it, says PayPal managing director Carl Schieble, “the silver lining in the economic crisis” at a time of slow growth on the high street.

Jermyn Street menswear retailer Charles Tyrwhitt is investing in new e-commerce technology as it looks to meet ambitious growth targets this year. Getting customer names and addresses right, it says, is key to successful online selling.

E-commerce websites from the Carpetright group are attracting thousands of visitors a week, the company’s annual results showed today.

Many retailers are getting bogged down in recreating web-like experiences on mobile, when simple SMS and MMS services are cheap, easy and effective to roll out and give a great mobile presence, delegates at M-Retailing’s JumpStart event in London were told. They can also save retailers money on customer care and benefit staff as well

Asda says its online price checker has saved its shoppers millions since it was launched. But what does a tool that guarantees the lowest price mean for the future of online grocery shopping?

While many retailers are toying with whether m-web or an app is the way to go with m-retail, many are overlooking some of the more complex issues surrounding delivering a consistent user experience through the chain of third parties that sit between the consumer and the retailer, m- and e-commerce optimisation company Gomez warned retailers at M-Retailing’s JumpStart event in London last week

Gift website Getting Personal has won £4m in investment as it looks to expand in a fast-growing market. The investment, from ISIS Equity Partners, will fund the company in growing its core business of offering innovative gift ideas across a wide range of categories.

Buying subscriptions to a range of newspapers from one dedicated site is now a reality, thanks to ThreePM, who also run the Magazine Group subscription website.

Much hyped contactless payments may be a long way off from becoming the norm in the UK – despite trials by retailer Boots ahead of a potential roll out at their till-points nationwide – because the recession has delayed both retailers and issuers from investing the technology, finds analyst Datamonitor. But Barclaycard doesn’t agree

Der Gomez Benchmark Reportfür die vergangene Woche vom 20.6. bis 27.6. bewetet die Zugänglichkeit und die Antwortzeiten. Kandidat der Woche ist diesmal Alternate.de.

Online grocer Ocado has finally broken cover on its plans to float on the London Stock Exchange. Ocado plans to raise £200m in the deal, which is estimated to value the company at £900m. Shares will be offered to staff and current customers as well as institutional investors.

Internet sales are continuing their “impressive” upward trend, the latest BDO High Street Sales Tracker shows today. But the World Cup and good weather, said BDO, continued to keep football fans off the high street.

Frank Bobo, vice president of Digital Element, considers how retailers can better, and instantly, connect with global online consumers. That means, he says, making websites relevant for visitors, no matter where they hail from.

Most retailers say multichannel is the way forward for their business, new research from DHL Supply Chain suggests. E-commerce, m-commerce and high street shops all have an important part to play.

UK consumers are now more confident about buying online from other EU countries. That’s evidenced by a fall in the number of complaints they make on cross-border transactions, says the UK European Consumer Centre.

Microsoft-owned shopping community Ciao has improved its mobile offering following a 200% surge in mobile access to its service since January 2009

Citi Banks’ cards arm, Citi Cards – which has some 200million US account holders – is moving into the m-commerce space in the US with the launch of an Android, Blackberry and iPhone app called …

Following a strong marketing campaign, Argos has revealed that downloads of its app launched in May have topped 500,000 in just three weeks. iPhone users seem to have taken to the idea of ‘Argosing it’, with more than 40,000 downloads on Saturday 28 May 2010, the day the retailer’s ad campaign broke