Mothercare announced a double-digit sales boost for its online channel at its AGM. At the same time it unveiled the purchase of the Blooming Marvellous brand and trademarks.

Fashion retailer Asos unveiled a 111% rise in international sales in the first quarter of its financial year. The rise means that overseas customers now contribute 37% of the company’s takings.

Nearly 60% of retailers are using mobile in some way, shape or form, with most using it for customer contact, delivery notification and special offers, as well as for marketing using text, finds the M-Retailing/Sponge survey conducted online over the past month. Encouragingly, almost 70% claim that mobile is vital in extending branding and marketing activities and two thirds think it likely that they will have adopted some use of mobile within the next 12 months

Google sees the future of retailing as mobile, but as further research suggests, its not about purchasing, but about what mobile brings to the shopping experience

Oh dear. While great things are expected of – and written about – m-commerce, the vast majority of brands are losing sales and failing to meet UK consumers’ expectations when it comes to actually offering these services, with just 4% of consumers finds the mobile purchasing process hassle free, according to the 2010 Brandbank M-commerce Content Report, which polled 2,255 British consumers with YouGov

As many as a third of US shoppers who have signed up to mobile marketing alerts say that they strongly influence the stores they visit, while as many as 27% say it has also impacted their decision to purchase goods a study commissioned by Placecast and conducted by Harris Interactive has found

While much attention is focussed on how mobile can be used by retailers to work with consumers and improve the retail experience, mobile also has another role to play: within the retail corporation, making staff right across the organisation from senior managers to HR to the cleaners work better and smarter. We take a look at how O2 made it happen for John Lewis Partnership

Leading credit and debit card companies MasterCard and Citi Cards, the payment card arm of Citi Bank are both using their brands to develop not only the payment tools for e- and m-commerce, but are also building ‘mobile malls’ where only their cards can be used

New mobile payment tool Waspit, which launches today, is aiming to make mobile payments for tangible goods, digital content and online services easy from any mobile phone – smart or otherwise – as the company pushes to open up m-commerce to everyone with a phone

Vouchercloud, the online and mobile discount voucher aggregator, is to start delivering location-targeted mobile ads to consumers following a deal with mobile ad sales agency 4th Screen Advertising

Royal Mail delivery offices are starting to offer longer opening hours, making it easier for online shoppers to collect their parcels. The move has been welcomed by online retailers.

The Trading Standards Institute has warned online retailers that failing to respect distance selling regulations is a ‘false economy’. It has issued advice for those unsure of where they stand in the wake of BBC investigation that found retailer Next had breached regulations.

Online sales rose in June at their second highest rate this year, according to today’s British Retail Consortium figures. Sunny weather and clearance sales were among the reasons why.

Visa Europe has unveiled a new security system, Visa CodeSure, that it says will be as effective at fighting online fraud as Chip & Pin has been on the high street.

Almost a third of orders to Domino’s Pizza now come through the internet, thanks to active engagement with social media. The company’s Facebook page, for example, has more than 36,000 fans. A sharp rise in e-commerce sales came as pre-tax profits rose by almost 28.6%.

UK consumers are the most confident in Europe when it comes to buying over the internet, according to new research. The main issue that concerns the British, it seems, is cost.

Dell has teamed up with crowdsourcing design business Threadless to produce a series of 11 new laptop designs now available for sale.

Tribune Media Services (TMS), a leading provider of entertainment information including showtimes for 44,000 cinemas in the UK, US and Canada, has formed a partnership with Placecast that will allow mobile application developers using the Placecast

Amazon, the internet retailer that started out as a bookseller, is now selling food and alcohol in the UK. The development means that mobile shoppers now can order groceries online wherever they are in the …

Channel 4 is selling fashion and make-up goods through its 4Beauty website. The move marks the first step by the broadcaster into e-commerce and is set to be followed by more similar sites in the future.