Forrester Research predicts that online retailing across Western Europe will grow at a steady 11% a year over the next five years, reaching a total of €114 billion by 2014.

Overall, 89% of UK companies are not certified as PCI compliant, 35% do not fully understand the requirements and nearly a third of respondents to a Tripwire survey do not know if they will be PCI compliant by the September 2010 deadline.

Internet, mail order and telephone sales were 15.5% higher in February 2010 than the year before, according to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium.

The last few places are still available for tomorrow’s free-to-attend JumpStart event, focusing on ecommerce platforms and featuring presentations from 10CMS, BT Fresca, Claranet, Portaltech, Intershop and Salmon.

French car maker Peugeot is to launch a mobile advertising campaign in conjunction with OMDUK, Peugeot’s media agency, that consists of a new expandable format for mobile, composed of three clickable sections promoting the 107, …

The five-year-old company says it has now passed the 100 billion mark in terms of reviews, answers and stories served.

The Chartered Institute of Marketing has published ‘Shape the Agenda’, a discussion paper that looks at what the future holds for online marketers.

31% of UK consumers now rarely or never pay full price when shopping and the average Brit now spends one to two hours a week searching for the lowest prices and money saving offers, according to new research by Fatcheese.

The majority of North American retailers (60%) have a single view of the customer, while the majority of UK retailers (62%) do not, according to new research conducted by Martec for BT and Epicor.

42% of retailers responding to the second annual Aldata/IBM Global Retail CIO Survey say they will implement multi-channel CRM within three years — and 38% will implement a loyalty system.

“The acquisition creates the first enterprise solution to manage social media, email marketing and mobile marketing,” says ExactTarget.

Report from CeBIT IT Trade Fair: “Greetings from Spain open the world’s largest IT conference this year – in 3D”

A recent survey published by Sterling Commerce has revealed that U.S. consumers online and offline want a better integration of channels to improve their buying decision.

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) is warning marketers that consumers don’t go looking for brands on the web, rather that they stick with fewer than ten websites they know and trust. And future success …

US consumers are getting excited about researching retailers and even shopping on mobile, but many are actually being turned off by mobile adverts, a study conducted by electronics retailer Retrevo.com has found.

UK shoe retailer Barratts Shoes is set to roll out what it is calling “a state of the art retail mobility system” – that’s an app to you and me – at its flagship store …

The sending of special offer vouchers to consumer mobile phones as they near certain retailers looks set to overcome its biggest hurdle – spamming people – as Placecast in the US and now MePlease in …

Digital marketing consultancy Econsultancy has published a mobile commerce best practice guide to meet the demand from retailers looking to make sense of how to sell through the growing number of smartphones out there – …

Mobile discounts app vouchercloud has shot straight to number one in the lifestyle section of the iPhone app store following its launch at the beginning of February, with nearly 250,000 consumers downloading vouchercloud – leapfrogging …

Customer convenience is the key driver to retailers adopting mobile, with 64% of those quizzed by analyst Aberdeen Group contending that as a result, mobile is a definite initiative for 2010. More than half of …