The BBC has produced an analysis of the top properties on the web that makes it easy to visualise the importance of internet retailing and of the major players within the market.

DRL, the UK’s largest white label online kitchen appliance retailer with clients including Boots, Marks and Spencer and Argos, is adding Fredhopper search and navigation tools to its consumer-facing website.

The UK service puts comparison shopping, eBay auctions, coupons and discount travel search all on one site.

Popular UK motoring website Auto Trader is hoping to make car buying easier by allowing car buyers to see a car they like and find similar models for sale nearby with an iPhone app that …

Will long promised NFC-based contactless payments finally start to gain mass appeal? Orange and Barclaycard certainly hope so as they roll out yet another payment solution. Will your local shop invest in the necessary infrastructure to make it work?

As m-Commerce is on the rise, so are the first conferences dealing with the subject of m-commerce and apps. The 1. Apps Summit to take place in Germany will be held at Wiesbaden on 4th and 5th of May.

On March 17th, Avail Intelligence, an expert on behavioral intelligence, and its customer Neckermann.de, a major German e-retailer, will present on how to convert web page visitors into buyers by designing a dynamically generated landing page.

On 27th and 28th of April, the ECOM 2010 conference takes place at the Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin. The conference debates over strategies how to profit from e-commerce technologies and how to make use of emerging technologies.

The John Lewis Partnership’s annual results reveal that sales via the retailer’s online operations increased by £60.6m in the year to 30 January 2010

The search marketing agency now manages the multichannel fashion retailer’s search engine optimisation and paid search accounts and reports.

The Royal Mail Insight Tool provides access to over 140 million UK transactions made through the online auction site, “giving advertisers and planners unparalleled insight into the purchasing behaviours of postcode areas across the UK.”

A new white paper allows marketers to easily benchmark their email marketing performance and includes statistics on open rates, click throughs and unsubscribe rates around the world.

Adobe has introduced a major update to its Scene7 hosted media platform, enabling retailers to further automate the production of dynamic creative media such as personalised promotional videos and targeted video ads.

The new ‘Social Affiliate’ tool is designed to let consumers easily earn affilate commissions by adding an advertising widget from a favourite brand or retailer to their personal blog or social networking page.

Online tourist websites have become a crucial factor in the retailing of tourism services. But if the performance or design of such a website dos not meet the visitors’ expectations they switch to the vendor’s hotline, causing high costs.

Many retails are still shying away from developing a mobile commerce strategy, often seeing it as having no real ROI. But, by the end of the year that could all have changed, suggests a study by PortalTech

Bad news for those of you heading off to the slopes to get away from the trials and tribulations of e- and m-commerce for a few days: SKIDATA has launched an iPhone app that allows …

In an effort to grow awareness of proximity marketing – where retailers can use Bluetooth or other mobile technologies to send offers and inducements to consumers when they near their premises or pass by an …

Commercial director Andrea O’Donnell is now responsible for retail store development, in addition to her current remit for multichannel and online selling.

The fashion etailer has launched Asos Follows Fashion, a site that aggregates the latest tweets from fashion industry insiders.