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Interflora launches a transactional mobile website
Interflora has soft launched a transactional mobile phone website featuring a selection of the flowers and gifts available via its main website. Payment can be made via click-to-call functionality
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'Name your price' shopping service signs first customers
Canadian retailers Lavish & Lime and Lemon Lime Kids have become the first to sign up for Pricewhispers.com, a new service that lets consumers state the price they are willing to pay for an item -- from right on the individual product pages on an internet retailer's website
Game has reported an increase in online sales of 85% and of 109% in online profitability
Amazon has reported a strong first quarter with profits soaring 24% cent to £121m
Amazon's international sales, including the UK, jumped 15 per cent to 1.58bn for the period. Just in...
What UK retailers are doing on Twitter
The site now receives more visits from UK internet users than almost all of the newspapers that are online in the UK.
Asos estimates traffic to its Twitter pages is up by more than 1,000 per cent since Christmas, and traffic from Twitter to Asos's site has increased by a similar level.
Twitter is also proving valuable to Shop Direct Group while it is in the process of relaunching the Woolworths brand online. Shop Direct wanted to join in the conversation occurring online about the "old Woolworths" and what potential customers would like to see from the new Woolworths
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Debenhams opens year-round online clearance store. The new Outlet store allows the retailer to market its clearance items throughout the year.
Debenhams have reported a 29.7% increase in online sales for six months to the end of February.
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Argos internet sales pass £1bn
Homebase and Argos are now working together to improve the group's overall online performance, Home Retail Group has revealed in its annual report. The internet now generates more than a quarter of Argos' sales, with continued transfer of skills to support the rapidly growing Homebase online offer
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Gap will make its online debut in the UK via young fashion website Asos this August. Asos confirmed that it would carry Gap womenswear, menswear, kidswear and babywear as well as a range of accessories from this autumn.Asos sells more than 800 brands via its website. It recently signed Mango, Hackett, Gant and Mini Boden, which will also launch on its site this summer.
