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News Retailers should be evaluating the benefits of the mobile web, and be mindful of the success of regular ecommerce sites in generating sales. The annual gross transaction value of payments made via mobile phones to buy digital and physical goods is... [01 Jul 2008]
Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed
Case Study Thomson Holidays ecommerce manager George Nolan said: "The traditional testing products tell us a lot about what is going on in the site but they don't give us a lot of information about how many attempts to purchase are failing and why. [09 May 2008]
GNER unveils online ticketing
News Emma Passey, ecommerce manager for GNER, told silicon.com: "The primary reason is to get people from our offline sales offerings to online ticket buying. GNER customers can currently buy train tickets from thetrainline.com but the rail operator has... [09 Nov 2007]
Online shoppers get savvy in run-up to Xmas
News Tealeaf CEO, Rebecca Ward, said after a decade of ecommerce, UK consumers have very high expectations of their online experiences, yet many companies doing business online are still failing to deliver an acceptable level of service to internet... [05 Nov 2007]
Dell spends $340m on summer of SAM
News Asap's subsidiary, License Technologies Group, specialises in licensing and ecommerce services for software publishers and their partners. Dell said it is spending around $340m to buy Asap Software, a software asset-management (SAM) company, as... [03 Aug 2007]
Six-millionth dot-uk domain sold
News Lesley Cowley, chief executive of Nominet, said: "With six million domain names now registered and a large percentage of these linked to ecommerce, it's easy to see the importance of a .co.uk domain name to a business. [09 Jul 2007]
March away from cheques continues apace
News In some countries, even with the rise of ecommerce, use of cheques remains more popular. Cheques account for just under a tenth of non-cash payments in the UK, according to Apacs. Seventeen per cent of French customers who buy online pay this way... [22 Jun 2007]
De Beers ventures into selling diamonds online
News The site engine is provided by ecommerce specialist Venda and allows customers to view highly detailed images of its products. All three of these sites now allow customers to buy diamond jewellery online.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [19 Jun 2007]
Amazon to open DRM-less digital song store
News The ecommerce giant has announced it intends to offer songs from more than 12,000 record labels in the MP3 format, without the controversial digital rights management (DRM) software. Amazon.com plans to launch a digital music store later this year... [16 May 2007]
Virtual worlds meet real life laws
News Naylor said, as a practical approach, European businesses should assume that unfair contract terms, consumer protection, ecommerce and distance selling obligations will apply to transactions in virtual worlds - unless European customers can be... [15 May 2007]
Online insurers let down by poor sites
News A fifth of motor insurance consumers abandon online quote forms in annoyance, without getting a price, according to the survey from Foolproof, an ecommerce consultancy. Nearly two-thirds of UK online adults anticipate buying their next car... [12 Oct 2006]
Google to make online shoppers pay
News Large companies and ecommerce and shopping integration providers can also integrate it as an option within new or existing shopping cart systems, as retailers Levi's and Timberland are doing, he said. [29 Jun 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Been let down by an e-tailer?
Comment And when the nature of ecommerce means your nearest competitor is never more than a click away, controlling the rate of customer churn can be a problem. So, on Christmas Eve you go to the shops and you buy the presents again and return Amazon's... [08 Mar 2006]
Yahoo! spends $500m to buy back its sites
News s partner in the Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba, which the company invested in this summer. will spend $500m to regain control of its European and Korean arms, with the transaction due to be concluded between now and the end of the fourth quarter... [08 Nov 2005]
eBay-Skype: The blogosphere speaks
News On news of eBay's acquisition of VoIP provider Skype on Monday, "Skype" and "eBay Skype" shot onto Technorati's list of the 10 most searched-for subjects - as bloggers speculated on what was behind the move, and how the ecommerce giant plans to... [13 Sep 2005]
