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Online shopping reaches record high
News Online shopping jumped in January, with sales reaching a record high of £4.5bn in the UK over the month. Anthoula Madden, head of Capgemini's UK consumer products and retail team, said online growth is happening despite sluggish sales on the high...
[February 25, 2008, 8:00]
Online shopping sets record
News This has definitely been a strong online-shopping season," said Abha Bhagat, senior analyst with Nielsen/NetRatings. Bhagat attributed the impressive showing to consumers starting their online shopping earlier and spending more online, taking...
[December 30, 2003, 9:00]
Online shopping still causes security fears
News The OFT said 79 percent of web users it surveyed were "very concerned" about the security of their payment details when shopping online. The report said: "[Consumer security awareness] campaigns need to be balanced, so that shoppers know how to...
[June 20, 2007, 9:35]
Online Christmas shopping soared in 2001
News Twenty-nine percent of British customers visiting e-tail sites in December went on to make a secure connection, while just 6 percent of Italians visiting shopping sites, and 8 percent of Swedes, were enticed into doing so.
[January 24, 2002, 17:03]
Online shopping increase provides bait for phishers
News Phishing is on the increase and the phenomenal rise of the crime shows little sign of slowing -- especially with more and more of us moving online to use services such as banking and shopping. According to research from VeriSign, the increase in...
[July 29, 2004, 14:40]
Men have a grand time shopping online
News Five percent of men have spent in excess of £5,000 on a single online-shopping session, according to research that claims to expose the "extravagant shopping habits" of Britain's males on the Internet.
[November 7, 2003, 11:10]
Asda expands online shopping
News Supermarket chain Asda is expanding its Internet shopping service, offering one million households in the South-East the chance to buy online. An Asda spokeswoman said that a "very positive" take-up of the online shopping service prompted the...
[October 21, 1999, 11:42]
Britons turned off by online shopping
News Most Britons feel alienated by shopping online according to a report released last week. The report, from London Bridge Software (LBS), found that 41 percent of 1,000 shoppers questioned feel that technologies enabling shopping such as the Internet...
[July 4, 2000, 11:23]
Spam fears dampen online Christmas shopping
News Nearly half of consumers are planning to limit their online shopping during the Christmas season due to fears related to privacy, with smaller online retailers particularly affected, according to a survey commissioned by nonprofit certification...
[December 1, 2003, 16:55]
Asda expands online shopping
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[November 6, 2004, 8:36]
Securicor to offer anonymous shopping online
News Concerns over online security and the treatment of personal data by Internet firms has put up to 40 percent of Internet users off Web shopping, according to figures from the National Consumer Council.
[November 28, 2000, 12:40]
Performance Testing for an Online Shopping Portal
White Papers This company operates an online shopping portal which sees a large number of customers transacting through it every day. The company has a chain of over 800 stores in USA that sell domestic merchandise.
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
H2O Plus Improves Their Customers' Online Shopping Experience With Commerce Server 2000
White Papers To improve their customers' online shopping experience, and to realize the 20-25% of their sales potential lost due to the instability of their Java-based Web site, H2O Plus turned to Microsoft for a more reliable, scalable platform.
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
US online shopping passes £7bn
News Top categories this year include the stalwarts of online shopping: books, music and videos. But while the festive season gets people focussed more on shopping, as Christmas gets closer, people spend more time out of the house or the office, and...
[December 24, 2002, 8:30]
Tesco takes Safeway into online shopping
News Having become one of the UK's e-commerce success stories, supermarket chain Tesco will launch its first US-based online shopping service on Monday. American grocery giant Safeway teamed up with Tesco last summer, in a deal that saw Tesco pay £16m...
[January 14, 2002, 12:30]
Taobao.com Spearheads the Rise of China's Online Auction and Shopping Market Segment With Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Technology
White Papers Back in 2003, when online auction and shopping in mainland China was still in its infancy, Taobao.com was set up to cater to the fledgling market segment. Today, the website has thoroughly changed not only the online auction and shopping ecology in...
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
Major Online Merchandiser Sees a Big Drop in Shopping Cart Abandonment Following Deployment of VeriSign Extended Validation SSL Certificates
White Papers As a result of the enhancement, site visitors with browsers that support the new certificate now abandon their shopping cart 8.6% less than other site visitors. The ever increasingly competitive online marketplace makes it necessary for companies...
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
UK online Christmas shopping to top £13bn
News The researchers said Monday 8 December will be the biggest UK online shopping day before the holiday, notching up sales worth £320m, with over 40 percent of sales made out of office hours. While the e-Retail Sales Index is bullish about online...
[November 13, 2008, 6:30]
A Year Ago: Online shopping impacts men
News Defying common stereotypes, the report states that 34 percent of men that use the Internet are happy to spend their cash online, compared to just 19 percent of wired women. According to Peter Duffy, director of online banking at Barclays, this is...
[February 27, 2001, 6:03]
Online shopping impacts men
News Defying common stereotypes, the report states that 34 percent of men that use the Internet are happy to spend their cash online, compared to just 19 percent of wired women. According to Peter Duffy, director of online banking at Barclays, this is...
[February 28, 2000, 13:19]
