Retailers can now offer their customers another payment option, with the launch of Checkout by Amazon. Amazon says the service makes it ‘extraordinarily simple’ for its customers to pay elsewhere.

Breville has adopted Reevoo technology as it looks to help consumers make decisions about which product to buy – and where to buy it.

ASOS has added personal recommendation technology from Fredhopper to its website. Cross and upselling is expected to increase as a result.

Halfords is a launch customer for the new 10CMS Commerce Content Management system, to be unveiled at this week’s Internet Retailing Expo. The company says customer interaction with promotional content has risen by 300% since it started using 10CMS technology.

WHSmith has renewed its online payments contract for the next three years. Paypoint.net was first appointed in the run up to Christmas 2007, when the retailer relaunched its ecommerce site.

N Brown, the web and catalogue clothing specialist is launching a new brand called Fabrici, catering for 50+ women who enjoy shopping on the web. The new brand has a size range of 12-32 and will be available online at www.fabrici.com and via catalogues from Monday 21 March.
Fabrici is being launched following a study conducted by N Brown which identified a new group of potential customers not currently catered for by the current portfolio of brands

JustShops, a collection of specialist e-commerce pet stores, is to add social commerce to all its online stores, using the Reevoo ratings and reviews solution. JustShops runs 11 specialist web sites, which provide pet owners with a wide range of pet products. Sites include www.justdogbeds.org, www.justrabbithutches.co.uk, www.JustGuineaPigHutches.co.uk and www.ukparrotcages.co.uk. The company is investing in social commerce in the form of product reviews and feedback in order to build greater trust, improve on-site conversion and make its sites more interactive and engaging so pet-owner keep returning.

The growth in online shopping coupled with developments in technology is changing the way retailers can reach new audiences and further develop the connection they have with long standing brand advocates. Phillip Rooke CMO of Spreadshirt explains how print-on-demand technology can help retailers of all sizes offer their full inventory of designs and content and connect it with quality clothing their customers will love to wear.

Mr Porter, the designer menswear site from Net-a-porter Group, went live this week offering over 60 brands including Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Paul Smith and Gucci. The site makes its debut for the spring/summer 2011 season, and marks exactly a decade since Net-a-porter.com was launched by former journalist Natalie Massenet.

Waitrose has announced the launch of a new ecommerce platform, costing more than £10m, as its online grocery service, formerly known as Waitrose Direct, becomes Waitrose.com next month. The investment will equip the retailer for rapid expansion in ecommerce sales over the next decade, in particular taking on Ocado in the London area. The new Waitrose website is on the Day (CQ5) platform, and has been designed by digital agency Grand Union.

The demand for ebook downloads has leapt since Christmas when a vast number of people received iPads and ebook readers – largely Kindles and Sony Readers – as gifts. Over the festive period 7% of British adults received a dedicated e-reader, bringing the total number of adults with e-readers to around 6.5m, or 13% of the adult population, according to a new survey by Book Marketing Limited.

The luxury fashion etailer has launched Net-a-Porter TV on its website with the functionality for customers to click-through and buy while watching fashion programming. The retailer is hoping to drive sales and generate a loyal global following through web-enabled TVs.

Medwinds plans to sell high quality, casual women’s and menswear to the 25-45 age group, but keep prices down by delivering direct from their Spanish warehouse

Asda has begun selling the View Quest Mediabox 5in Media Tablet on its website for just £52

Enthusiasm for the VIP Art Fair is being taken as confirmation that the world is very much ready for online art sales

Dairy food company Dairy Crest says its innovative ecommerce doorstep delivery service milk&more is gaining new customers. Weekly sales generated by the service are now close to £1m.

New technology that aims to help retailers make sure their prices are competitive in the market has been launched. PriceOptimizer.com says its solution provides an answer to the time-consuming task of monitoring prices.

Facebook Deals has launched in the UK, following a release in the US in October 2010. Internet Retailing was invited to the launch event and Ian Jindal gives his thoughts on the news and its importance to retailers

New ecommerce site The Clothes Parlour is launching, offering what founder Joan Lilley describes as day-to-night designer fashion at prices that are not ‘faint-inducing’. Screen Pages has designed and developed the ecommerce site.

White goods retailer DRL is among the first customers for new technology from Bazaarvoice that lets search engines index user-generated content.