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Dell to launch auction site
News The new auction business continues the Round Rock, Texas, company's broad push into Web retailing, begun three years ago with its own Internet site and continuing this year with the launch of its Gigabuys online site for computer and electronics...
[July 19, 1999, 15:30]
E-Christmas: Online with Santa looking good...
News Leslie Mingey, business development controller for Great Universal Electronic Retailing - famed for its mail order catalogues - agrees with the optimistic predictions: "We started our first site in the early part of 1996 and we now have seven...
[December 2, 1998, 13:55]
Loyalty Lab: Delivering On-Demand Relationship Marketing for Consumer Brands
White Papers In the consumer goods business, effectively integrating sales across multiple channels can be difficult and expensive, in part because most retailers' point-of-sale applications were implemented before Internet retailing really took hold.
[August 10, 2007, 10:43]
Retail Analytics
White Papers The retailing environment is a dynamic one. With the development of the Internet and the growth of multi-channel operations, businesses must be able to change their business models so they can collect real-time business information and drive the...
[March 2, 2007, 0:00]
BT and WH Smith sign Internet deal
News The deal may help WH Smith reach its goal to control at least 30 percent of the Britain's online book retailing market. Telecommunications top dog BT (quote: BT.A) and high-street bookseller WH Smith clinched a mutually beneficial Internet deal...
[January 27, 2000, 11:19]
Demon seeks Net suite spot
News UK ISP Demon Internet will next week attempt to lay the ghost of Internet software retailing with the release of Demon Internet Suite. The £39.95 package will include a Demon dial-up account sign-up with one-month's usage, Microsoft Internet...
[September 25, 1996, 15:14]
AOL members set shopping record
News This is the latest piece of good news for the Internet retailing sector. Major Internet retailers like eBay and Amazon.com have not yet released their sales figures -- both companies are scheduled to report quarterly results later this month.
[January 2, 2002, 16:39]
Home Office demands massive cybersecurity overhaul
News The combination of the Internet and global retailing now paves the way for such rapid and wide dissemination of new technology that unpredictable negative consequences do not just locally emerge but often explode onto the global environment.
[December 13, 2004, 17:30]
French shoppers bag bargain PCs
News According to a Cyrix spokesman, the machine is "customised for the Internet" and is set to compete with high-street machines retailing for £1000. Stan Swearingen, vice president for National's Cyrix PC division commented: "This is another example...
[February 2, 1999, 11:16]
Top Red Hat IPO sees share price triple
News From a financial perspective, Red Hat's a much safer IPO bet than some of the other Internet and retailing companies that have gone public in the past month. Linux is used more as a server software so Red Hat will be counting on large companies and...
[August 11, 1999, 17:06]
Web of Porn: The Business of Porn - Part 2
News Although not directly selling sex, lingerie company Victoria's Secret for example, showed investors what the future of online retailing could look like by sending its underwear models sashaying down an online catwalk.
[March 9, 1999, 15:50]
London voted e-business capital of Europe
News They have had longer to get used to the wide variety of online retailing, and have had access to online US etailers," he said. E-tailers are at the sharp end of the Internet revenue generation, following the simple old-fashioned notion of selling...
[April 26, 2001, 7:08]
Assessing the tech market carnage
News And many sceptics are chalking up the boom not to the underlying technology surrounding the Internet, which they dismiss as no more significant than the dawn of catalogue retailing, but rather to global economic conditions and timing.
[March 12, 2001, 9:00]
Amazon makes Web-ad patent bid
News In February, it received a patent for an online retailing chat technology. The e-commerce giant, which sells limited advertising space on its Web site, recently filed with the United States Patent and Trademark office for a patent that deals with...
[March 25, 2003, 9:34]
Coming Soon: Exhibitions and Conferences
News Electrical Retailing Show '97, Halls 11 & 12, NEC, Birmingham; 01737-768417, fax 01737-789985 Internet Security Seminar, Holiday Inn, Manor Lane, Maidenhead, Kent; Cole and Cole, Maxine Orton 01865-262600, fax 01865-721367
[March 10, 1997, 9:14]
The arrival of MP3 - Retailers told to adapt or die
News How music retailing will change remains to be seen. Diamond Multimedia's Rio PMP300, launched in the US yesterday, is the first MP3 player from a leading hardware manufacturer and is being watched carefully by an industry with very little clue how...
[September 15, 1998, 16:02]
A Year Ago: The arrival of MP3
News How music retailing will change remains to be seen. Diamond Multimedia's Rio PMP300, launched in the US yesterday, is the first MP3 player from a leading hardware manufacturer and is being watched carefully by an industry with very little clue how...
[September 15, 1999, 7:00]
E-commerce celebrates double figures
News Though they have their differences, Adams and Kohn both agree that in August 1994, online retailing was on the cusp of a breakthrough. Web retailing began to flourish the following year, when Netscape (now a division of Time Warner) came out with a...
[August 17, 2004, 11:00]
Update: Scoot gets the Loot in £189.8m deal
News The combined business will now focus on five vertical markets: home and garden, business services, motoring, travel and entertainment, and retailing. Scoot, which currently focuses on city-guide information via the Internet and telephone, says it...
[June 12, 2000, 15:17]
Christmas e-commerce boom beats expectations
News Britain's online spending in the run up to Christmas has exceeded expectations, according to the global e-retailing body, Interactive Media in Retail Group. Twenty-five percent of all electrical goods are now sold on the internet.
[January 2, 2007, 13:08]
