The consumer organisation has chosen PriceRunner to power its new Which? Compare service

Hot on the heels of WHSmith’s launch of a dedicated entertainment site last month, Argos has now also launched its own entertainment site, in partnership with The Hut

As the retailer announced its annual results this week, it also revealed it is to redevelop its website with a wider format and improved search and display of products

A long term strategic partnership has been signed with health information services provider WebMD with the aim of creating a leading healthcare information website

The owners/managers of each of the 3,300 Rewe-branded independent supermarkets in Germany have been given the tools to create their own websites within the overall Rewe.de website

Chief executive Mark Newton-Jones is continuing to keep busy at Shop Direct, with the latest plans including an expansion into Europe — beginning in July 2009

The garden centre chain’s new site will support the expansion of Dobbies’ social media strategy through blogs, forums and the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace

After spending over $5m acquiring the Toys.com domain name, Toys R Us has seen the site getting de-indexed by Google because it forwarded the domain rather than transferred it

“This business has continued to fall short of our expectations and customers’ expectations,” CEO John Donahoe has told analysts. “That’s not acceptable.”

The move follows the company’s decision to reduce its in-store involvement in the entertainment sector

Another week, another Asos competitor on its way, this time from John Lewis…

Following on from Shop Direct’s acquisition of Woolworths.co.uk, The Hut Group has bought Zavvi to bring it back as an online-only business and Toys R Us has splashed $5 million on the Toys.com domain name

Last year’s changes to its fee structure and efforts to attract established retailers to the site mean that British retailers and other big sellers could account for £1bn of sales on ebay.co.uk over the next five years, the company says

The company has seen a 50% increase in online sales since January 1, says chief executive Mark Newton-Jones, and Woolworths.co.uk will be back online in June

The home shopping giant has opened up its UK websites to overseas customers, launched a German version of its Simply Be catalogue and website and plans launches in North America, Australia and South Africa in 2010

“Grocery online retail has not yet been proven as a profitable model,” says marketing director Michael Bates

A new investigation into multi-channel marketing strategies has revealed most marketers now have clear plans to improve online and offline integration and deliver multi-channel personalisation

It looked for a moment as though Phones 4u had become the latest to make a clear statement that it would match its own online prices in store. Instead, the waters have been muddied still further…

Littlewoods, Great Universal, Empire, Kays, Marshall Ward, Additions — and potentially Woolworths — will all be run from one unified ATG ecommerce platform

A partnership agreement between the UK’s mydeco.com and Furniture.com from the US will see the two companies working together to promote each other to shoppers in each location