According to report by BBC quoting authoritative ecommerce survey, UK shoppers are spending more money online. Online ecommerce sales has gone up by almost 40%, you can read the full story below: UK shoppers spent 17 pence in every pound online in the first half of the year, a report has said. The total internet spend was £26.5bn, up 38% on the same period last year, according to e-commerce group IMRG and consultancy Capgemini. Rising food and fuel bills and the credit crunch have forced shoppers to seek out bargains away from the high street stores. Online... 

Ivobank, a new online banking service specialising in online payments and money transfer services, has launched in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Spain. Timothy Sawyer, Managing Director of Ivobank, said: “Our new company offers more than just online banking. We offer a service where businesses and customers who make payments online can do so knowing that their money is secure, earning interest and easy to manage. It also allows customers to move money instantly from their account to friends’ and families’ accounts with Ivobank, making it very attractive... 

Official Sony PlayStation site was successfully hacked recently, it is feared thousands of  credit card details belonging to PlayStation fan may have been stolen.  The cyber-criminals behind the fraud successfully fooled visitors to the site to hand over their credit card details using classic phishing techniques; claiming the visitors computer is infected with bugs and viruses, they are then offered bogus security patch and asked to enter their credit card details to pay for it. Security experts were surprised that a website run by a company the profile... 

Ecommerce shopping is largely dependent on specially designed software to make if function. These shopping carts are used for anyone who is shopping on the internet. The shopping ‘cart’ or basket is virtual i.e. you don’t actually get a shopping cart or basket – you simply order a product from a website, which then tells you it has put it in your shopping cart, if you buy more than one item these are also added to the cart until you are ready to cash up. Once you have paid for your purchases by credit or debit card along with any postal or shipping... 

The interactive media’s share of UK advertising expenditure is set to hit 30 percent next year, the highest of any world market, according to a new GroupM study. The survey, called Interaction: Addressable, Searchable, Social and Mobile, finds that interactive media will remain the principal source of advertising growth in the UK and beyond over next two years. In 2007 the interactive media segment – which includes the internet, mobile and gaming – accounted for 20 percent of all UK ad spend, and was driven by better handsets and WiFi connections. The...