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E-commerce booms in UK
News According to figures released on Friday by the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG), a total of 14.3 million British shoppers spent some £1bn at e-commerce sites in November -- the most ever spent online in one month in the UK.
[December 13, 2002, 16:45]
E-commerce sites open to legal attack
News The OFT says lack of awareness of consumer standards does e-commerce no favours in the public eye. Find out how the Internet is revolutionising the economy at the E-commerce Special. Many UK consumer Web sites are leaving themselves open to legal...
[March 14, 2001, 16:11]
Q&A: E-commerce minister on broadband rollout
News Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham, was appointed e-commerce minister last month. My job is to live up to the targets that we have set, such as making the UK the best place for e-commerce by the end of 2002, and my sense is that we're actually well...
[June 24, 2002, 14:01]
E-Commerce Focus: Don't do DIY - Datamonitor
News In its report, e-commerce software, Datamonitor suggests the UK will continue to appease its ravenous appetite for Internet connectivity and concedes that for many larger organisations setting up an e-commerce system is a relatively small expense...
[July 8, 1998, 10:16]
E-commerce minister proposes online voting
News The e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander yesterday (Thursday) announced his intention to make online voting a reality within the UK. His speech, at the Democracy in the Information Age conference, marked a dramatic change in mood towards e-voting...
[October 26, 2001, 7:30]
E-Commerce Focus: Europe learning from US failures
News The UK and Europe may well be behind the U.S.in volume of e-commerce implementations but that could be a good thing according to new research. About 10 percent more of European IT managers felt they had been more successful in implementing e...
[July 7, 1998, 12:28]
E-commerce tools to push .Net strategy
News Microsoft will next week launch Commerce Server 2002, new software for building e-commerce Web sites and one of the first products supporting the company's .Net strategy. The e-commerce building software is seen as an essential tool for building...
[April 8, 2002, 11:32]
E-commerce to grow 57 percent
News Remember e-commerce? So says a study by research firm eMarketer released this week which predicts e-commerce sales will grow by 57 percent this year, rising to $65.9bn (about £44bn) this year from $42bn in 2000.
[January 10, 2001, 14:44]
E-commerce fraud takes a toll on sales
News E-commerce is transforming business around the globe. Get the latest headlines at ZDNet UK's E-commerce News Section. Merchants lose a higher percentage of sales to fraud online than offline, according to a new report from GartnerG2.
[March 4, 2002, 15:39]
E-commerce chief leaves Bertelsmann
News Andreas Schmidt, the head Bertelsmann's e-commerce division, resigned Wednesday to pursue "new entrepreneurial opportunities," the company said. Andreas Schmidt has expanded the position of Bertelsmann in the international e-commerce business with...
[November 28, 2001, 14:38]
E-Commerce Focus: DataMonitor predicts part II
News First E-Commerce focus story by noon
[July 7, 1998, 16:44]
E-commerce sites making moves offline
News And with Christmas around the corner it is likely consumers will see a big push -- both online and offline -- by e-commerce sites looking to grow their share of the festive cash. One pioneering e-commerce site based in London -- gadget site Firebox...
[November 24, 2004, 11:20]
E-commerce still booming
News E-commerce made up approximately 1.7 percent of the nation's $919bn in total retail sales, which rose nearly 8 percent from a year ago. Among the factors Forrester cited as contributing to the expansion of the online retail market were greater...
[August 23, 2004, 14:10]
E-commerce will kill the high street - report
News People are already turning to e-commerce," an RICS spokesman said. Take me to the e-commerce special. Unless traditional retailers adapt quickly, the high street will be replaced by its ever powerful virtual adversary a new report warns Friday.
[January 24, 2000, 15:06]
E-commerce bill to be centrepiece of government
News Prime minister Tony Blair put e-commerce at the centre of government policy but admitted he was personally a "technophobe" in a keynote speech at the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) conference in Birmingham Tuesday.
[November 2, 1999, 11:15]
E-commerce needs a new hero
Talkback Heard of Ian Watmore, the e-commerce government CIO who spoke at an event in London Recentlyrun by Information Age, he spoke well hand and described the MOT Online process and how it worked. I wrote to the e-mail address for information last...
[March 1, 2005, 12:47]
E-commerce analysts remake themselves
News Six months ago, Greg Konezny was an e-commerce analyst. As the downturn has decimated the ranks of e-commerce companies and sent stock prices of others plunging, at least one firm, CE Unterberg Towbin, has abandoned e-commerce coverage altogether.
[February 20, 2001, 14:59]
E-commerce minister 'neglecting IT for energy'
News Stephen Timms, government minister for energy, e-commerce and postal services, is so overburdened with responsibilities that he is being forced to put key IT issues such as broadband availability and electronic business on the back burner...
[October 28, 2003, 16:20]
E-commerce minister chases digital dragon
News The e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has embarked on a visit to the Far East to try and persuade Chinese high-tech companies to set up operations in the UK. Our strength in areas such as electronic design, digital content, mobile communications...
[July 9, 2002, 11:35]
UK Tech Week: E-commerce tidal wave is coming
News Speaking at the UK Technology Week exhibition yesterday, Phil Wade, Marketing Director for UK ISP Planet Online, predicted a massive increase in e-commerce for business and consumers over the next nine months with potential casualties among high...
[October 8, 1998, 13:54]
