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Mobile payments up 300% during Christmas shopping season
PayPal, the world’s most popular online payments and money transfer service, have today announced that they’ve witnessed a three hundred percent increase in payments made on mobile devices during the...
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Irish online yearly spend approaches €3 billion
Irish consumers spent €2.96 billion online in 2010 according to research published earlier this week by Visa Europe. This represents an increase of 39% from 2009 figures, where an estimated €2.13...
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Shopping technology fears and how to get over them [Infographic]
TabJuice, a leader in social commerce, have created this nice infographic that illustrates initial shopping technology fears through the ages and how we overcame these. Fears over technologies like the...
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Conversion rates down 55% among online shoppers
Global online sales increased by 25% in 2010 Online conversions rates among UK shoppers are down almost 55% in the past five years, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. In 2006...
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Shoppers are no longer impulsive, study finds
An Amazon Fulfillment Centre in south Wales. Credit: dailymail.co.uk Shoppers are no longer impulsive. A recent study from Deloitte has found that nine out of 10 shoppers know what they’re purchasing...
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After record week in online spending, Cyber Monday sentiment “positive”
As holiday shopping season official kicked-off this week, dramatic increases in online spending have been recorded on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, up 39.3% and 24.3% respectively. An IBM...
View ArticleIrish consumers will spend €257 million online this Christmas
Irish consumer are expected to spend €257 million online this Christmas, with today, Cyber Monday, set to be the single busiest day in terms of online trade during this holiday shopping season....
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What nation leads the world in mobile commerce rankings?
What country leads the world in mobile commerce rankings? Australia, apparently, with 47% of online shoppers doing so on mobile. Mobify analysed the activity of 200 million online shoppers on mobile...
View ArticleEarly data from Thanksgiving and Black Friday reiterates the rise of mobile...
As if this needed reiteration but mobile payments are definitely on the rise, with early data reports from Thanksgiving and Black Friday confirming what we all predicted – an increase in online...
View ArticleGoogle Shopping will begin paid-for transition this February
Google Shopping is beginning its transition to a commercial model in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil, Australia, and Switzerland next month – a...
View ArticleAmpleFind lets you shop 4 million sporting goods items from a single platform
With over four million items from 15 of the largest sporting goods retailers, AmpleFind officially launches its one-stop sporting goods online shopping portal. AmpleFind has announced the official...
View ArticleThe changing tides of currency: payment industry rides the waves of...
Money may currently be what makes the world go round, but it hasn’t been around forever. The beginnings of what we know as modern currency began in ancient times, though our modern payment methods...
View ArticleShopping online could be less sustainable than in-store, study suggests
Online shopping via distribution centers can generate more greenhouse gases than making physical purchases in-store, research by the peer-reviewed scientific journal Environmental Science and...
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