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Despite the hype, 41% of US shoppers – that’s close on 103 million Americans – currently won’t use their smart phones or tablets to buy products and services online, new research reveals: meaning either m-commerce …
Tablets – and the iPad in particular – are rapidly reshaping how e-commerce works and they are starting to drive consumer behavior. is driving retail innovation. Here Mark Inskip, UK managing director for Group …
UK retailers are unprepared for the peak Christmas fortnight, is the stark prediction from on-demand commerce solutions provider Venda. It has warned that retailers who have failed to embrace a multichannel e-commerce strategy will risk …
£3.5 billion of Christmas retail sales will be purchased on or influenced by smartphones, according to business advisory firm Deloitte. The influence of smartphones far outweighs the value of direct sales made through them, with …
Despite being all too aware of its bottom line impact, only 10% of brick and mortar retailers have strategies in place to combat showrooming, according to a new research study from Edgell Knowledge Network (EKN), …
On what is set to be the UK’s busiest online shopping weekend, eBay Social Shopping – the UK’s first interactive, socially powered shopping experience based around mobile – will land in London’s Covent Garden …
The holiday shopping season is nearly in full swing and survey results from CashStar, a leading digital gifting and incentives company, show that online Americans are shopping from their mobile devices in mass numbers, sometimes …
Nearly nine in ten (88%) of the world’s mobile media users now engage in mobile content and commerce – up from 82% in 2011 – according to the findings of the MEF’s latest annual global …
According to forecasts by the independent retail analysts Verdict, m-commerce is set to grow a whopping 504% between now and 2017 – resulting in almost £1 in every £4 spent online being through a mobile …
Despite operator EE rolling out a limited 4G service in select parts of the UK, Another Christmas without universal 4G services will cost the UK economy £120m in lost mobile sales, according to new research …
Shop Direct Group, the UK’s largest online and home shopping retailer, is to work with global mobile marketing agency Somo to provide consultancy across the Group’s three core brands – Very.co.uk, Littlewoods and isme – …
O2 wifi is being deployed in the UK’s leading hairdressing salon franchise, TONI&GUY, which will see the hairdressing chain’s 1.5 million customers per year provided with fast, reliable and easy to use wifi. The deployment …
Krishna Subramanian, CMO, Velti explains why he thinks the under-rated and overlooked Passbook app in iOS6 is set to transform mobile retailing
Following the successful launch of its Gifts commerce platform on Android and the desktop, Facebook is expanding the service to devices running Apple’s iOS. Facebook Gifts lets users purchase and send real-world items to their …
Despite the growth in e-commerce, recent research by YouGov for shopping app company Udozi has revealed that consumers are being put off online shopping because they are frustrated by high delivery charges (44%) and the …
Four fifths of smartphone owners use their device while watching television, according to the latest eCustomerServiceIndex results from eDigitalResearch and IMRG. The survey also found that a similar number (81%) of tablet owners use their …
The popularity of tablets is the driving force behind strong growth in mobile searches, finds the latest BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor report, with, two in five of all mobile retail searches now undertaken on tablets …
Hesitation in investing in ‘third wave’ technologies will cost UK retailers more than £860 million worth of sales over the next two years, new research from eBay reveals. That’s the equivalent to the amount UK …
Sainbury’s is piloting a scan and go purchasing offering that allows customers to scan items as they shop using an iPhone/Android app and then pay without having to unload their trolley or bags at the …
UK shopping centre asset manager, Vale Retail, has partnered with Mobileweb Company to develop and launch a series of mobile sites enabling users to view and interact with its shopping centres across the UK. First …
