This month saw retailer Very.co.uk launch a click-to-buy sponsorship deal with Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother. Mark Curtis, chief client Officer at service design consultancy Fjord, says this collaboration is just a taste of where retail needs to go in the future to create a more holistic and immersive customer experience.

Channel 5 has teamed up with online retailer Very.com to offer a ‘click to buy’ website based on products featured in this year’s Celebrity Big Brother reality show.

UK consumers made 113 million visits to retail websites on Boxing Day, a 17% increase on last year, while Brits spent a combined total of 14 million hours shopping online the day after Christmas, according to new research.

Twitter could be worth up to £7 billion as the company prepares to go public in 2014 according to a news report.

Facebook has added a voice record feature to its Messenger apps for Android and iOS, with plans to introduce full voice calls in the near future.

Google has axed a censorship notice on its Chinese search engine, as the firm looks to build on its paltry 5% market share in the rapidly growing market.

UK Internet users made 84 million visits to retail websites on Christmas Eve and 107 million visits on Christmas Day up an astonishing 86% and 71% respectively compared to the same days in December 2011, according to new data.

MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, starts the new-year by unveiling its mobile predictions for the next twelve months.

Gumtree.com has announced the launch of its first official app for Android in the UK, and an update to its existing iOS app.

The UK Government has unveiled a list public services it intends to make online by 2015, as part of a cost cutting drive.