Shopping on mobile devices is set to increase by 53% in the next 12 months hitting £4.5billion, making the British the biggest mobile shoppers in Europe for the third year running followed by Germany (£2.7bn) and France (£1.9bn), finds a new study commissioned by Kelkoo and carried out by the Centre for Retail Research

Annual revenues from consumer mobile applications will approach $52 billion by 2016 as consumer smartphone adoption accelerates in tandem with the emergence of a mass tablet market, suggests a study by Juniper Research

Feather & Black, a stylish bedroom furniture retailer, has now launched a transactional mobile website, following a 337% increase in mobile traffic to its website in the past six months

The idea of the ‘Digital High Street’ has come a step closer with leading retailers Everything Everywhere, Asda and Tescos joining the growing list of retailers signing up to appear on search and discovery app NearMe – adding potentially more than 30million customers to the service that already has an organically grown user base of 500,000

eBay.co.uk, the leading online marketplace, has predicted $8billion in global mobile sales on the site as a new consultation from Ofcom set out proposals to make 4G mobile spectrum available in the UK

The high street may have taken a hit this Christmas at the expense of online shopping – culminating in Boxing Day 2011 being named the UK’s biggest ever online shopping day – but much of this rise in e-commerce was driven by mobile, suggests a new report

Leading High Street retailer Topshop has created a fully transactional, multichannel iPhone app that brings the entire Topshop product catalogue to customers and actively engages with them in-store, at home and online

A study by Adobe carried out during the 2011 holiday season and throughout 2011, found that tablet visitors spent more per purchase than visitors using smartphones or traditional desktops and laptops, suggesting that tablet visitors were the most valuable online customers in 2011

Lakeland, the creative kitchenware company, has launched a mobile commerce website with the help of its implementation partner Javelin Group, one of Europe’s leading e-commerce consultancy and systems integrator and a speaker at Internet Retailing Expo on 22 March at the NEC in Birmingham

Motors.co.uk, the UK’s second largest car search response networks for motor dealers, has seen visits to its mobile and app sites more than double (123% increase) in the last 12 months, with 15% of total visits to the site now coming from mobile devices. The firm has also seen a 200% increase in visits from iPads

Mobile devices including the iPad, iPhone and Android help drive strong online retail sales over Christmas, according to the latest cloud-based analytics findings by IBM, accounting for some 15 per cent of all retailer online traffic

The way UK consumers shopped for presents this Christmas was completely different to any previous year, according to the annual survey by international consumer research specialist Intersperience – with the smartphone and mobile coupons stealing the show

Tablet use over Christmas Day and Boxing Day in 2011 doubled compared with 2010, as 8% of consumers now use these devices as their main means of getting online, according to the annual Christmas activity survey from eDigitalResearch and IMRG

The amount of mobile browsing over the Christmas period – as measured by how many people click on mobile adverts – reveals a much earlier start in 2011 than in 2010, as well as a frenzy of mobile browsing on Christmas day between 9 and 11am – up 50% on a typical day at that time

MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, kicks off 2012 by unveiling it’s predictions for the year ahead. In 2011, MEF accurately forecast that the proliferation of Smartphones would drive mobile consumer engagement with a number of other predictions also coming to fruition. So let’s see how it does with 2012s crystal balling…

John Lewis has (finally) launched an iPhone app, which gives customers access to 200,000 John Lewis products while they are on the move and allowing shoppers to find their nearest store, opening times, and to browse JohnLews.com while in store or lounging around at home – as well as seeking to improve customer experience in store

Ironic as it may seem, mobile operator O2 has only just embraced m-retailing for its own customers with the roll out of specially designed m-web pages that let customers purchase mobile phone accessories on the go on all web-enabled phones

Poor mobile app and mobile website design – including a lack of ‘thumb friendliness’ could be costing retailers £4billion in revenues as smartphone users making early forays into m-retail are put off their sites and head for better designed competitor sites

As ‘Cyber Monday,’ the busiest online shopping day before Christmas came and went on Monday 5 December, 12% of the £13.4billion expected to be spent on line this yuletide came via mobile, according to the Centre for Retail Research

Good news for drinkers, Virgin Wines has launched a mobile version of its website, following a threefold increase in the number of visitors to the Virgin Wines website in the last year compared to the previous year