Dutch online and mobile payment company Adyen, has launched a single-click mobile payment solution for iPhone and Android, that aims to give application developers the ability to implement an alternative payment solution to iTunes that also accepts credit cards, PayPal and a range of other payment methods within mobile applications and mobile websites

VeriFone’s next generation VX Evolution contactless payment solutions are being piloted with a number of merchants in the UK and Ireland, by Integral – the first vendor to gain accreditation for the latest range of mobile and countertop POS systems here

Heathrow airport parking provider, Purple Parking, has seen a 400% increase in traffic – of the online booking variety – from mobile devices in the past year and so has launched a mobile commerce site this week, to service this demand

We all know that mobile should be the key tool in the marketing-retailing-payments chain, but still many retailers are unsure about what mobile payments actually are and what they can do. Here Keith Brown, MD paythru, gives us an overview of it all to help you develop your m-payments strategy

Online grocery shopping remains a niche area despite the popularity of internet retailing in the UK, says a team from Kingston University, which argues that supermarkets must think of imaginative ways to encourage shoppers to keep shopping online.

The first keynote speakers have been unveiled for the sixth annual Internet Retailing Conference, to be held on October 4 2011 in London.

Fashion brand Anthropologie has opted for 10CMS content management technology to cut the costs of using rich media on its European website.

Ann Summers is getting personal. Visitors to the sex toys and lingerie website will see personalised recommendations, thanks to the retailer’s use of RichRelevance technology.

Online retailers are expected to spend 14% more on ecommerce-related technology this year than last as they invest to deliver customers’ expectations of joined-up channels, mobile and social commerce.

An upgrade to its technology means that payment processor Retail Decisions can now process transactions in virtually any language in the world. This is significant for its trade in the Far East, where it will now be able to make Chinese, Japanese and Korean available as payment options for the first time.

Topshop leads the way in F-commerce according to the new Channel Advisor Facebook UK Commerce Index. The brand has nearly 50% more fans than its nearest rival.

Internet shoppers bucked the high street trend of declining sales by spending more online in May than they did a year ago, according to figures from both the ONS and the IMRG. Multichannel companies, clothes and alcohol retailers were among the chief beneficiaries online.

eModeration manages brands and their reputation in the world of social commerce, handling 100 live projects at any time for global brands including Smirnoff and The LEGO Group. Internet Retailing editor-in-chief Ian Jindal asked its chief executive Tamara Littleton to give a ‘poacher’s view’ and characterise the differences between social media channels.

The latest research from eDigitalResearch and the IMRG shows that consumers are increasingly influenced by what they see and read on social networking sites – especially through mobile. Of the 2000 UK consumers surveyed, 15% said that they have been influenced to make a purchase by adverts, groups and discussions on social networking sites.

Everything Everywhere, Telefónica UK and Vodafone UK have announce plans to create a standalone m-commerce joint venture. The new entity, the first of its kind in the UK, will bring together the expertise and technology of the UK’s leading mobile operators, enabling the rapid development and delivery of new mobile marketing and payment services

Retailers are not prepared to meet the demands of the new breed of Smart Consumers who use multiple, web-enabled touch points to interact with brands, warns on-demand e-commerce provider Demandware – and there is a widening gap between the touch points that retailers are currently offering, and the ways in which consumers expect to interact with brands now and in the future

Consumers want mobile payments and the ‘mobile wallet’ may have become an industry buzz phrase, but research by YouGov shows 70% of consumers haven’t heard of the concept, and 91% haven’t heard of Near Field Communications (NFC) – the technology that enables cashless payments on their mobile handset

PizzaExpress has joined the growing number of restaurants to roll out an app, offering an iPhone app that, amongst other things, gives customers the option to pay their bill automatically via their Smartphone

Net-a-Porter has come up with a new way of engaging its customers – by showing them a live feed of who’s buying what, where. Net-a-Porter Live went live today.

Video game retailer Game said its sales were down in the first 19 weeks of its financial year but that its strategy to develop its multichannel business was showing early results.