29/04/2011
Not that we’re blowing our own trumpets or anything… okay, we are a bit. With the world’s media focused on Westminster Abbey this morning, just about every news organisation on the planet is reporting on the marriage of Wills and Kate, sorry, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. So who’s top of Google for “royal [...]
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If you’re after a final souvenir from the Royal Wedding eBay hasn’t failed to come up with the goods on today’s Daily Deal with a replica Royal Engagement Ring and Pendant. At just £9.99 each you can buy The Royal Engagement Collection Silver Plated Ring and Pendant in what eBay are calling special deals for [...]
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photo credit: garryknight People across the UK and around the world are sitting down to watch the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton who will hence forth be known as their Royal Highnesses Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the highest rank in British Peerage. William also became the Earl of Strathearn and Baron [...]
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29/04/2011
eBay has made a really interesting payment acquisition according to the Boston Globe. It’s only a three man start up outfit, but Fig Card, founded just over a year ago has apparently attracted the attention of John Donahoe eBay’s CEO, who snapped up the company which will now, unsurprisingly, report to PayPal. Fig aim to [...]
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During last night’s Q1 2011 Investor Earnings conference call John Donahoe once again emphasised that eBay UK is the darling of all country sites. The UK is outperforming it’s rivals including eBay.com, although only the third biggest country site after eBay.com and eBay.de it’s growth is faster. eBay UK Q1 in numbers eBay released the [...]
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eBay and Amazon have both reported their first quarter earnings for Q1 2011 and they’re both significant for different reasons. Amazon are growing at a fantastic rate of around 38% and significantly a third of all items shipped on Amazon are by third party sellers. That means although sellers often fear competition from Amazon overall [...]
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27/04/2011
Staples is throwing it’s weight behind the The StartUp Britain Campaign in their aim to boost the economy by getting 500,000 new businesses launched in 2011. The retailer will host weekly Start up Saturday classes in its 138 stores for potential entrepreneurs – giving over prime retail space on a Saturday morning Start up Saturday, [...]
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The British Retail Consortium has published its first Online Retail Monitor report today, showing a dramatic increase in mobile retail searches. Mobile search grew 181% in the first three months of the year and now accounts for 11% of all retail searches. This tallies with eBay’s commitment to mobile technology and the importance the place [...]
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In advance of next months Catalyst Conference, ChannelAdvisor have announced new additions to their team in London. Simon Bushell has joined as European sales director and Johan Valind as EMEA marketing manager. If you’re attending Catalyst you’ll get the opportunity to meet the new additions to the ChannelAdvisor team, who bring with them a wealth [...]
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There’s been an interesting price war taking place on Amazon.com which resulted in a book on genetics being offered for sale at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping). Spotted by Michael Eisen, a biologist at UC Berkeley, two sellers appear to have been using automatic re-pricing which resulted in the price being increased on a daily basis. [...]
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