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  • Comparison sites now drive 10% of online sales

    Almost half the retailers who took part in a survey conducted by E-consultancy and DoubleClick say the proportion of their sales from comparison shopping engines increased this year and, overall, one in ten online sales now originates from these services

  • Volumes will be up this Christmas, says Amazon UK MD

    It will be another best selling Xmas, Amazon UK's managing director has told The Sunday Times, with sales volumes reaching over one million items on the busiest day of the year

  • Fed up with your hosts?

    Amazon are adding new features to their cloud computing services with the aim of taking on the web hosting market

  • Amazon: Coming soon to a TV near you?

    In America, two new services let viewers place orders for Amazon products direct from their TV

  • Amazon introduces Bill Me Later

    Amazon is looking to new ways to increase growth in the US and has picked alternative payment option Bill Me Later

  • Amazon goes down

    Amazon breaks for the first time in years, with outages on Friday and Monday

  • Another Option

    A US site has built an online search tool to find the biggest discounts on Amazons worldwide sites.

  • Amazon video widgets

    Amazon has entered the video hosting business with its Your Video Widget referral scheme for Amazon affiliates

  • Amazon: adds Grocery category in beta

    It was only a matter of time until Amazon tackled groceries. Lots of fuss, but it's still a beta and only covers non-perishable goods. Still, it's the first step rather than the final word...

  • Best ever Christmas for internet retailers

    Early reports indicate that online sales in the run up to Christmas were 50% up on 2005 as internet retailers, including Tesco and Amazon, record their best ever Christmas.

  • New Marks & Spencer e-commerce site goes live

    Marks and Spencer's new e-commerce site went live this morning. The site has been developed by the company's in-house e-commerce team in partnership with Amazon. It is John Dixon's first public step towards fully integrating the site, telephone ordering service and high street stores after taking up the task in January.

  • Amazon profits up as music downloads rumoured

    Amazon.com has announced Q1 sales of over $3 billion, an increase of 32% year-on-year. Operating profit for the quarter also increased by a similar amount, standing at 38%.

  • Marketworks announces support for Amazon

    E-commerce solutions provider Marketworks has added functionality to its system enabling customers to sell from Amazon. By integrating Amazon's Merchants@ programme into its e-commerce platform, customers of the multi-channel online services and technology company can now sell through Amazon without having to upgrade or change their inventory and order processing software.

  • Podcasts take Amazon customer closer to products

    The latest marketing innovation from Amazon.com is podcasting. Amazon Podcast network launches with four channels of free content to "bring customers closer to celebrity authors, actors and musicians. The four channels are Amazon BookClips, Music You Should Hear, Significant Seven and Amazon Wire.

  • Amazon moves in music and photography

    Amazon.com has announced officially that it is launching a digital music store later this year and has acquired a camera review site dpreview.com.

  • Google falls short on privacy

    Google has been ranked worst offender in terms of data privacy in a study by Privacy International. During the six-month investigation, the human rights research and campaign organisation analysed key internet companies, including Amazon and Microsoft, against 20 privacy parameters.

  • Amazon turnover up a third

    Amazon.com's Q2 turnover is up 35% year-on-year to $2.89 billion, a figure which has surprised US analysts and added 20 cents to the company's share price.

  • Amazon to launch payment rival

    Amazon has rolled out a beta of a 3rd party payments system along the lines of PayPal and Google Checkout. It also enables peer-to-peer transfers so that amazon.com members can move money amongst themselves.

  • Amazon expands through widgets

    Amazon is expanding its reach through the release of a number of 'Amazon Widgets' that can be used to feature products from Amazon on blogs, websites and social networking pages.

  • Amazon quietly launches shoes

    Amazon UK has started selling shoes.

  • Amazon adds data storage for businesses

    Amazon has launched its popular S3 (Simple Storage Service) product in Europe, hoping to attract European businesses to a service which won’t have the latency which affects European sites trying to use the US-based service.

  • Borders to split from Amazon

    Borders are to leave the umbrella of Amazon and are striking out on their own with their first UK and US transactional web site. Will it be too late to get market share?

  • New Deals

    The latest round up of software and services purchased by online and offline retailers featuring Amazon, Bill Me Later, Empire Stores, Tamar, Woolworths, Avail Intelligence, GSI Commerce, PaddyPower, Email Reaction, Glass, Timberland, and Bazaarvoice

  • Good news, bad news, part two

    Sales for Amazon beat all their previous records, while results for Next and DSG look bad

  • Find hidden discounts

    A US site has built an online search tool to find the biggest discounts on Amazons worldwide sites.

  • UK shoppers stick to trusted sites?

    Trust Index research reveals shoppers only buy from five or less e-tailers

  • Amazon UK tests Health & Beauty store

    Amazon UK is testing a new Health & Beauty store, in preparation for a launch later in 2008, five years after a similar store went live in the US.

  • Mobiles R Gr8 Sez Amazon

    Amazon.com has launched TextBuyIt a new facility to help users to shop and buy on Amazon using text messages.

  • Amazon S3 crash

    Amazon’s S3 storage-as-a-service has a hiccup for a few hours

  • Amazon payments - mobile search / buy

    Amazon has rolled out a beta of a 3rd party payments system along the lines of PayPal and Google Checkout. It also enables peer-to-peer transfers so that amazon.com members can move money amongst themselves.

  • Sainsbury’s site goes down

    Ouch! Sainsbury’s home delivery site has to pull the plug as it hits problems

  • ChannelAdvisor adds Amazon Merchants@ support

    ChannelAdvisor has added a simple way for businesses to integrate with the Amazon.co.uk Merchants@ program

  • [Editorial] Online footfall drops, but not everyone is losing out

    InternetRetailing.net's web editor, Sarah Clark, on the day's news...

  • Amazon to bring greener and easier to open packaging to UK

    A new initiative designed to both make it easier for consumers to liberate products from their packages and to be more environmentally friendly is to be expanded into the UK market next year

  • Home delivery continues to grow, but in-store collection gains ground

    Online shopping will continue to drive growth in the home delivery market but this may be about to stall as the success of stores' click 'n' collect services gather momentum, says a new report from Verdict Research

  • Amazon and Tesco target Xmas gift buyers with free shipping — but M&S drops its delivery offer

    Amazon.co.uk has dropped its eligibility requirements for free shipping to only £5 whilst Tesco Direct is introducing free delivery to stores on orders of £25 and above and to homes on orders over £50. Marks and Spencer, though, has dropped the free shipping on all orders it introduced last month. Is free delivery set to be the online battleground this Christmas?

  • UK & US

    Borders are to leave the umbrella of Amazon and are striking out on their own with their first UK and US transactional web site. Will it be too late to get market share?

  • Amazon takes on PayPal and Google Checkout

    Amazon is making a move into the ecommerce platform space, allowing other retailers to use its trademark 1-Click system as part of a new hosted ecommerce solution

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