For those of you who don't know, responsive design is a way of designing and coding websites with a fluid layout, so that images and other elements of the site adapt to the screen on which the site is being viewed.
Online daily deal site Groupon fired its chief executive Andrew Mason this week, and while his leaving memo for staff was certainly candid, his depart...
Fears about the changing nature of the British high street look set to be realised, after new research reveals that 20 shops were closed a day on Brit...
"We'll do that like Amazon". I have heard this so many times in my concept workshops that I've lost count. It's true that Amazon does a lot right and swallows about 25% of the German e-commerce pie chart. But anyone who wants to be like Amazon is setting themselves up for a failure.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If only we could re-run past experiences, knowing what we know now. Picture the scene. It's 1986 and you've just taken the decision to open the world's largest record store on Oxford Street, London...
Marc Andreessen is on a roll. The Netscape co-founder heads one of the highest profile Silicon Valley venture firms, Andreessen Horowitz, and has made some outstanding investment calls since launching the firm in 2009, including Instagram, Twitter, and AirBnB.
How to avoid product returns is one of the most discussed topics in the retail industry. Particularly in the fashion sector, online retailers have to ...
So what can a finance system whose roots lie in third world economic development do to help stem the tide of further business failures in a developed country like the UK? A lot I would argue.
Despite the record sales on Cyber Monday and a predicted spike on Christmas Eve, 42% of British shoppers plan to buy some of their Christmas presents after December 25.
Despite the dark cloud hanging over the retail sector, in a difficult year that has seen a number of big name casualties, there is plenty of light at the end of the tunnel for those willing to embrace change, particularly for smaller businesses.
India's fast developing economy, coupled with a rise in the number of affluent middle class consumers, has led to a considerable appetite for eCommerce amongst the country's consumers.
I firmly believe that the reason Comet has gone into administration is because its customer service standards bar was set far too low and ultimately, customers have voted with their feet.
The rise of alternative payments has been phenomenal, to the extent that these types of payment now account for 22% of global transactional value. But what are the parameters for a payment method to be classed as 'alternative'?
China is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and consequently, its vast population has a higher percentage of disposable income to spend than ever before. The Chinese penchant for luxury items, and particularly western brands, is making it an attractive pool of income-rich consumers. How can UK eCommerce merchants successfully tap into this market?
Over the past few years, the European Commission has been examining the competitive environment for online commerce in the eurozone. This is due to the widely held view that e-commerce is the best way to transcend national borders and enable businesses and consumers to get the most out of the European Single Market.
The latest data published by the Office of National Statistics once again confirms that the UK has by far the most established e-commerce market in the European Union.
What's wrong with newspapers? We could spend the next year struggling to answer the question, while traipsing through the undergrowth of the internet, of consumer tastes and news appetite, and of the competition for time, money and advertising. Newspapers are, of course, a format, not a media channel.
Even a decade ago, using a vibrator or (worse!) a male mastubator was an admission of failure, a last resort for the losers in love who had given up on ever having an actual flesh-and-blood relationship. All the lonely people, the Beatles nearly sang, where do they go to come? But now, according to research, the sex toy market is worth an estimated £250m a year in the UK.
Last season I fell for Alexander McQueen's playful, younger line, McQ, all over again when Rihanna put a rockabilly spin on their sleeveless tartan puffball dress for her appearance on UK X Factor back in November.
Why is it that a product or deal displayed in a retailer's store may not be available to buy online or vice versa? Or why is it sometimes not possible to return a product bought online to the same retailer's store?
Two leading figures in the luxury sector argue the case for and against embracing technology and online selling, writes Clare Gascoigne.
In a winter of economic discontent, growing online sales combined with high street trading is a brighter outlook says James Wallman It doesn't mat...
The future of the high street isn't a debate that is set to run out of steam any time soon. From deliberations in Westminster about whether ecommerce is the saviour of bricks and mortar stores through to the financial results of some of the best-loved names on the high street being analysed or the implementation of Mary Portas's recommendations, all eyes are on the retail sector.
Mobile commerce is being lauded as the next big thing for e-commerce businesses. Many are already taking full advantage of this new opportunity, but according to latest research a large numbers of consumers are still left underwhelmed by mobile presence of many shops.
About this time of year lots of technology pundits write columns about what they think is going to happen in the upcoming twelve months or so. I have ...
