Orange offers Windows customers ‘free app a day’
Orange is working in conjunction with Microsoft to give its Windows Phone pay monthly and pay as you go customers a free app every day in July.
Travel
Lastminute debuts credit card with offers and reward points
Online travel and leisure retailer, lastminute.com has launched a new credit card in partnership with MBNA and MasterCard.
Online shopping in May: Top e-tailers give their views
Online shopping continues to grow in the UK, with £5.3 billion spent online during May; a year-on-year increase of 18%. However, Brits are preferring to make lots of small purchases rather than big investments, according to the latest data from the IMRG and Capgemini. Here, key figures form the UK ecomerce industry share their experience … [Read more…]
Online shopping in May: Brits splash out on the little things, but reluctant to buy big
Online shopping continues to grow in the UK, with £5.3 billion spent online during May; a year-on-year increase of 18%. However, Brits are preferring to make lots of small purchases rather than big investments, according to the latest data from the IMRG and Capgemini.
Online travel booking: Positive reviews ‘nearly as important as price’
User-generated content in the form of positive reviews on sites like Trip Advisor, is increasingly becoming the make or break factor when it comes to online travel booking, with more than one quarter of consumers identifying it as the most important factor, according to new findings released today.
Top 10 travel sites in Europe
Expedia, Priceline and Groupe SNCF were the most visited online travel properties in Europe according to new data from comScore.
Brits spent £5.2bn online in April: Travel sector suffers from UK heatwave
The latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index have revealed continuing strong growth for online sales in April, with shoppers in the UK spending a total of £5.2 billion online, a significant 19% more than April 2010 and equivalent to £84 per person.
Mobiles ‘to replace metro and bus tickets’
Half a billion people worldwide will use their mobile devices as travel tickets on metros, subways and buses by 2015, according to new forecasts from Juniper Research.
Home Service companies ‘need to be more responsive to online customers’
Almost half (41%) of all email enquires went unanswered in the latest eHomeServices benchmark report from eDigitalResearch, despite companies increasingly expecting customers to independently self serve using online account tools.
10m Brits use mobile shopping…but 83% have experienced problems
10 million online consumers in the UK made a transaction using a mobile device in the last year but, in what should be a convenient and simple way to shop, 83% of these experienced problems when conducting such mobile transactions, according to a new poll.