Beauty fanatics will never be more than a finger tip away from their favourite products now that Debenhams has extended mobile offering with the launch of the Beauty Club iPhone app

Half a billion people worldwide will use their mobile devices as travel tickets on metros, subways and buses by 2015, according to new forecasts from Juniper Research

Michael Norton, Managing Director of PayPoint.net looks ahead at the payment methods that we’ll be becoming more familiar with over the next decade as well as the new sales channels that will be available to retailers

As the Royal Wedding draws close, online spending is spiking, says eBay. The online marketplace has seen sales of Prince William-related memorabilia rise by more than 1,000% compared to last year.

John Lewis’ online sales rose by almost a third in the run-up to Easter, while Waitrose also enjoyed strong ecommerce growth, show John Lewis Partnership figures released today.

Fashion retailer Alexon has said online remains a key part of its turnaround strategy after a year in which sales through the channel rose by 144%.

Retailers will be reminded of the importance of the right domain name to an online business after gambling.com sold for $2.5m in a deal announced today.

Video games retailer GAME says it must adapt in order to prosper in a changing market. Digital and social gaming were growing, it said, while sales of hardware and software were falling – and GAME must diversify to meet the needs of a multichannel future.

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Despite the growth of ecommerce, bricks and mortar stores remain important for success in retail, says a report from property consultants CB Richard Ellis.

The number of retail-related searches carried out online grew quickly in the first quarter of 2011, according to the new Online Retail Monitor from the British Retail Consortium and Google.

Online visits to menswear brand Matinique have risen by 20 times after the launch of a new ecommerce site.

The UK’s first online dress rental service is enhancing its customer service throughout this year, including improvements to its website.

M&S has launched its first multimedia kidswear campaign, promoted online and through a dedicated microsite as well as in store, in print and on television.

The Carphone Warehouse saw sales of selected multichannel promoted products grow by a fifth following the introduction of new technology.

Retailers may be among those looking to buy snappy two-character domain names now available to register. UK.com has released a range of the easily-recalled names, which it says are also easier to put into mobile devices.

Some 98p in every £10 spent in the UK in March was spent online, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The amount spent over the internet was 13.7% up compared to the previous year. Overall, however, sales rose by just 4.5% in value last month.

A crosschannel future for the way we watch film has been predicted by Tesco, which this week moved towards allowing consumers to link their purchase of a film DVD to downloading the same film online with the acquisition of an 80% stake in blinkbox.

Nearly 90% of retailers believe mobile will impact shopping in the next two years, yet just 16% have a mobile strategy in place – despite 42% of retailers already seeing mobile impacting how they run their bricks and mortar businesses

Mobile retailing is poised to dramatically change the high street as the boom in mobile phone based shopping leads to many retailers literally shutting up shop and focusing instead on delivering a mobile internet shopping experience