In a sad turn of events, just days after HMV announced that they were entering administration another victim of the move to digital products – Blockbuster a symbol of the entertainment industry throughout the 80s and 90s has too called in the administrators. Although not entirely unpredictable it’s sad to [...]
Argos has hired a relatively unknown American to be its new managing director, as it looks to revive its falling profits and sales. John Walden has extensive experience from his time at Peapod an online grocer, electrical retailer Best Buy and department store Sears. Home Retail Group hired Mr Walden [...]
Apple managed to pull off something amazing with the launch of iTunes Match. We all know that Apple seem to have the midas touch, seeming able to take (almost) any consumer product, re-package it in sleek aluminium, slap a bit of Apple magic on to the user interface and BOOM! [...]
February 08, 2012 05:30 AM Eastern Time LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The first fundamental change to the way Direct Debits can be set up and managed in 40 years has been launched today. The new service from Cashplus® provides consumers with...
Social sign-on could solve one of the oldest problems on the internet, users hate having to sign up for websites, we’ve known this for some time now, there’s nothing worse than trying to buy something or download something and having to fill in 20 or so fields of personal information, [...]
Anders Dahlvig, former IKEA chief executive, said that the retailer has become too large and should be broken up. Mr Dahlvig, currently holds posts as a non-executive director at both Kingfisher and H&M, says IKEA faces significant slowing growth and rising costs. He argued that the chain should be split [...]
A freedom of information request from the South Wales Echo revealed that council staff in Rhondda Cynon Taf council have three eCommerce sites, Amazon, Argos and Next, amongst their top 100 most-visited sites. A spokeswoman for the council said: “Staff are allowed to access the web through the council’s internet [...]
James Ellington the Olympic hopeful who attempted to secure sponsorship through eBay has stated that he ‘could not be happier’ with the result of his campaign, despite the winning eBay bid not being genuine. James, from south London, took to eBay to seek a sponsorship after failing to secure corporate [...]
High street sales for November fell at their fastest rate in almost three years, according to the CBI’s Distributive Trades Survey. The scale of decline in annual sales growth, at minus 19, was worse than the minus 11 recorded in October. It was the lowest reading since March 2009. Th [...]
Word on the street is that Microsoft is rolling out a new automatic upgrade process for it’s Internet Explorer web browser, users on Windows XP and above will from now on automatically be upgraded to a newer version of IE unless they specifically choose to opt out of the programme. [...]