As many as one in five ‘online’ sales made this Christmas could be through mobile, with as many as one in three visits to online sites being through the channel, suggests the latest IMRG Capgemini …

Footballer’s wives favourite clothes store Whistles has unveiled a mobile optimized site to better serve its ever-more multichannel customers.

Research commissioned by Tradedoubler and carried out by Forrester Consulting, involving more than 2000 smartphone users in the UK, France, Germany and Sweden has found that 71% of smartphone users across all four countries are …

Dr Stephen McCormac , AVP, Retail, CPG, Logistics, Europe, Infosys explains how to meet the challenges of actually supplying goods when you take your business into the heady realms of m-commerce

While you may be wondering how to go about making m-commerce and omni-channel payments work for you, a group of big American retailers – including Shell, 7-Eleven, Target and Wal-mart – have decided to join …

An estimated 3.5 million Carphone Warehouse customers will get a personal introduction to mobile payments from this month as staff at 800 stores help customers install and register the Carphone Warehouse Mobile Checkout powered by …

Pizza Hut Delivery has launched a new mobile version of its UK website to allow customers to place orders for delivery or collection from their mobile.

True to its pioneering reputation, the theme park at Wavre in Blegium is about to launch a world first: Walibi Connect – a new app that enables Facebook users to share their favourite rides with …

According to the latest figures from comScore, the mobile retail audience in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom (the so called EU5) nearly doubled over the past year, with 1 in 6 smartphone …

Tesco has kicked off the holiday season in style with the launch of a two week trial at Gatwick Airport of virtual grocery shops aimed at getting consumers to shop via mobile before they jet …

The value of remote transactions for digital and physical goods purchased via mobile devices is expected to exceed $730bn annually by 2017, a new report from Juniper Research has found.

It was the first UK retailer to launch an e-commerce solution in the UK in 1996, but Toys R Us is coming to m-commerce slightly later, only now adding mobile to its omni-channel retail approach.

Ron Curry, UK BU Head – Retail, Travel and Hospitality, Consumer Goods at Cognizant Technology Solutions, says retailers are right to embrace the new opportunities that mobile technology offers, but believes integration is key.

Mobile e-commerce revenues across Europe will rise from €1.7 billion in 2011 to €19.2 billion in 2017, going from 1% to 6.8% of total web sales, according to a new Forrester forecast based on 14,000 …

Shoe retailer Foot Asylum has increased revenues through the mobile channel by an astonishing 500%, on increased traffic of up to 14% per month following the optimisation of its website to handle the growing level …


Snappy Snaps the Photo & Digital Specialists has become the latest High Street retailer to hit the Digital High Street by launching one of its summer offers on the NearMe mobile app.

Small and medium sized retailers are being left behind when it comes to incorporating mobile commerce as part of their customer offering, finds a study undertaken by Onepoll for MoPowered.

eBay has launched its new Motors app for iPhone to make buying cars and parts and accessories via eBay on a smartphone quicker, easier and more customisable for car crazy shoppers. The new eBay Motors …

Gary Bicker, UK country manager, affilinet ponders whether increasingly savvy consumer use of mobile is a boon for retailers or a more sinister erosion of their core businesses and profits

iPhone and Android based augmented reality app Zappar, has started selling Augmented Reality (AR) ‘Zappar T-Shirts’ in George at ASDA. The AR Zappar T-shirts bridge the gap between the physical and the digital and take …