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. Although December e-commerce statistics will not be available until 15 January, Interactive...
[January 2, 2007, 13:08]
Microsoft unveils entertainment software
News People can order and download it starting 7 January from a host of Web retail outlets. At their introduction, the machines carried prices that were at least about $500 higher than those of average-priced retail PCs.
[December 17, 2002, 7:36]
Group endorses bigger Web ads
News Industries including human resources, computers and office equipment, publishing and retail have shifted a greater portion of their advertising dollars to the Internet in the last year. The Universal Ad Package will result in a stronger, more...
[December 12, 2002, 7:10]
UK heading for a record e-Christmas
News The Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) said on Wednesday that British e-commerce spending was up 40 percent year-on-year in October. It can't give precise figures for the number of visits, but it did say that more people went to retail sites...
[November 24, 2005, 16:40]
Startup Spotlight: handbag.com
News Our final goal is to greatly enhance our retail offering, and to build something that will make it an advantage to buy online with us. We are at the point of market development where we are moving from an unedited market to the first stage of...
[February 10, 2000, 10:18]
E-Christmas may not live up to promise
News A spokesman for Verdict, a retail research firm agrees the e-Christmas boom has been over-hyped. Virgin radio is launching an interactive shopping facility on its Web site, with music, computer games, clothes, mobile phones and other goods...
[November 15, 1999, 16:39]
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]
Lycos-USA: No e-commerce home run
News Put the two together, and it could be a formidable retail and marketing network encompassing telephone, television and Internet services. Lycos (Nasdaq:LCOS) CEO Bob Davis suggested giants such as Amazon.com are within the reach of USA-Lycos...
[February 10, 1999, 10:22]
E-tills ring out for Internet Shopping Day
News The event is organised by e-tail body IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group), and will be supported by high street staples such as Boots, Virgin and Debenhams and the charms of the event's frontwoman, Melinda Messenger.
[July 24, 2003, 16:14]
Bringing 3D to the Web
News Marketers have reported success with 3D retail environments in which products can be rotated and manipulated in three dimensions. The next level, Interactive, adds to the Interchange profile interaction with elements in a 3D page, such as mouse...
[February 27, 2002, 6:31]
US Report: VCR-PC hybrid adds up to interactive TV
News Retail units will be shipped in the first quarter of 1999 at a whopping price of $995 (£606). Two big issues holding back interactive TV is monthly fees and privacy," said Jim Plant, director of marketing for Replay Networks.
[December 18, 1998, 10:58]
Virgin Entertainment and Hannaford Bros. Co. Increase Store-Level Productivity and Communications With Cisco's Intelligent Retail Network
White Papers Virgin Entertainment Group operates 18 Virgin Megastores in the United States that provide thousands of customers with experiential, interactive shopping through in-store appearances by major entertainment artists, a wide variety of music and DVD...
[June 7, 2006, 0:00]
3Dfx is getting into the image game
News Dfx hopes the merger -- expected to be complete at the end of March -- will combine its well-known retail brand name with STB's success at selling to PC makers. The retail market may be a different picture, however, said Feibus.
[March 17, 1999, 10:08]
