Fashion retailer Missguided looks to iPhone app to boost online sales

BufferOnline fashion retailer Missguided has launched its own iPhone app in a bid to expand its online retail offering. The business, which specialises in “catwalk looks and celebrity inspired women’s fashion”, hopes to use the application to strengthen ties with customers … Continue reading

Zara owner puts smartphones and tablets at centre of online sales venture

BufferSpanish fashion retailer Inditex has announced it will start online sales later this year. The company, which owns brands including Zara and Massimo Dutti, is due to open an online store on September 2 covering the United Kingdom, France, Germany, … Continue reading

Retail sales via mobile internet forecast to more than double in three years

BufferMobile phone users bought nearly £123million of goods in the UK in 2009 using their smartphones, according to a new report, and this figure looks set to more than double in the next three years. As total online retail spending … Continue reading

Argos joins rush to sign up i-Phone users

Buffer“Don’t just shop for it, i-Phone it to Argos” – that might well be the latest variation of Argos’ well-known advertising catchphrase promoting the retailer’s latest idea to open new channels for its customers. The high street company has followed … Continue reading

Nexus One online sales nixed

BufferGoogle’s Nexus One phone is no longer available from the company’s own website, after the company admitted buyers had proved reluctant to buy the phone without putting it through its paces first. In an announcement on its blog, Andy Rubin, Vice-President … Continue reading

Good news for online advertisers as US display ad impressions hit one trillion in first quarter

BufferTotal display advertising impressions in America numbered 1.1 trillion in the first quarter of 2010 according to data released by comScore. The research firm found a 15 per cent increase in the number of display ads shown to internet users … Continue reading

Mobile payments set to quadruple by 2014, says UK research firm

BufferThe value of payments for physical and digital products made through mobiles will reach almost $630bn by 2014, according to industry experts. Hampshire-based research firm Juniper Research said the gross value of all mobile purchases stands at $170bn this year, … Continue reading