The two companies have signed a strategic partnership that will see Feefo’s customer reviews service made available to Actinic’s small- to medium-sized retail customers for a small monthly fee.

The BBC has produced an analysis of the top properties on the web that makes it easy to visualise the importance of internet retailing and of the major players within the market.

DRL, the UK’s largest white label online kitchen appliance retailer with clients including Boots, Marks and Spencer and Argos, is adding Fredhopper search and navigation tools to its consumer-facing website.

The UK service puts comparison shopping, eBay auctions, coupons and discount travel search all on one site.

The John Lewis Partnership’s annual results reveal that sales via the retailer’s online operations increased by £60.6m in the year to 30 January 2010

The search marketing agency now manages the multichannel fashion retailer’s search engine optimisation and paid search accounts and reports.

The Royal Mail Insight Tool provides access to over 140 million UK transactions made through the online auction site, “giving advertisers and planners unparalleled insight into the purchasing behaviours of postcode areas across the UK.”

A new white paper allows marketers to easily benchmark their email marketing performance and includes statistics on open rates, click throughs and unsubscribe rates around the world.

Adobe has introduced a major update to its Scene7 hosted media platform, enabling retailers to further automate the production of dynamic creative media such as personalised promotional videos and targeted video ads.

The new ‘Social Affiliate’ tool is designed to let consumers easily earn affilate commissions by adding an advertising widget from a favourite brand or retailer to their personal blog or social networking page.

Commercial director Andrea O’Donnell is now responsible for retail store development, in addition to her current remit for multichannel and online selling.

The fashion etailer has launched Asos Follows Fashion, a site that aggregates the latest tweets from fashion industry insiders.

Forrester Research predicts that online retailing across Western Europe will grow at a steady 11% a year over the next five years, reaching a total of €114 billion by 2014.

Overall, 89% of UK companies are not certified as PCI compliant, 35% do not fully understand the requirements and nearly a third of respondents to a Tripwire survey do not know if they will be PCI compliant by the September 2010 deadline.

Internet, mail order and telephone sales were 15.5% higher in February 2010 than the year before, according to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium.

The last few places are still available for tomorrow’s free-to-attend JumpStart event, focusing on ecommerce platforms and featuring presentations from 10CMS, BT Fresca, Claranet, Portaltech, Intershop and Salmon.

The five-year-old company says it has now passed the 100 billion mark in terms of reviews, answers and stories served.

The Chartered Institute of Marketing has published ‘Shape the Agenda’, a discussion paper that looks at what the future holds for online marketers.

31% of UK consumers now rarely or never pay full price when shopping and the average Brit now spends one to two hours a week searching for the lowest prices and money saving offers, according to new research by Fatcheese.

The majority of North American retailers (60%) have a single view of the customer, while the majority of UK retailers (62%) do not, according to new research conducted by Martec for BT and Epicor.