The fashion retailer has seen the average order value on its website increase significantly since introducing Peerius’ recommendation technology.

The usually low-tech world of farmers markets has leaped ahead with the launch of a 3D virtual market that lets shoppers ‘stroll around’ the stalls of 45 specialist food and drink producers.

The fashion brand has picked Portaltech for its new ecommerce platform, while Pod1 will be responsible for the design of the new site.

A US survey conducted by Adobe Scene7 provides detailed information on online shoppers’ visual merchandising preferences and identifies the ecommerce shopping features considered most useful for making an online purchase.

LinkShare’s Liane Dietrich looks at the options for brands and retailers looking to profit from Twitter and identifies a way to get your affiliates selling for you on the microblogging site…

Metro Group’s CE supermarket chain Media Markt is expected to open its first branch in China. The first store for consumer electronics (CE), Metro Group announced, will open in Shanghai, with ca. 100 more stores until 2015.

The first week of the new year held an unpleasant surprise for ca. 30 million German shoppers: Their new Eurocheque cards for 2010 were not accepted in most shops.

According to the latest press release of the German government’s department of statistics (Statistisches Bundesamt, http://www.destatis.de), the German national domestic gross product (Bruttoinlandsprodukt, BIP) shrank by 5% in 2009. That was the largest downturn since …

For the full holiday online shopping season, $29.1 billion was spent online, marking a 4-percent increase versus the same period last year, says comScore.

The department store chain has reported an increase in online sales of 91% for the eight week Christmas shopping period.

The increase was driven by a strong performance in toys, TVs, games and entertainment, including digital downloads, the retailer reports.

Gomez has launched a free calculator which allows retailers to easily quantify how much revenue is at risk from slow page loading times.

Retail internet, mail order and telephone sales increased by over a quarter last month according to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium.

And 79% are prepared to work with retailers to co-design new products and services that better meet their personal needs, according to a global survey of 32,000 consumers conducted for IBM.

Registration is now open for our next free-to-attend ‘JumpStart’ event focusing on payments solutions and fraud prevention, to be held in London on Thursday 11 February.

Search engine and ad business giant Google presented its first own smartphone Nexus One at its headquarter in Mountain View, California, and at the Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas.

“User-generated content” plays an increasingly significant part in buying decisions. There is a growing number of places on the internet where shoppers can read other users’ ratings of brands, products, and services.

Amazon reports healthy growth in Christmas season’s sales. Customers of Amazon ordered 110 products per second on all of Amazon’s websites – more than 9.5 mio. items on December 14th, 2009, and 1.7 mio. items in Germany alone.

For 2010 there are positive signals of growth coming from the German hightech industry. According to a BITKOM poll, four out of five companies expect a noticeable increase in demand.

UK internet retail sales reached a total of £49.8 billion in 2009, according to research from Retail Decisions.