e-commerce

0711 In the third quarter of 2007, U.S retail e-commerce transactions rose by 23 percent to US$28.44 billion from US$23.05 billion in the same period last year, according to ComScore. The U.S.-based consultancy says its figures exclude online auctions,...

0710 The Dutch Department of Justice has called on credit card companies not to provide their services to illegal gambling websites. As no gambling website has yet been approved in the Netherlands, all of the sites which are operating are illegal. Paysquare,...

0710 In July 2007, monthly UK Internet shopping sales rose above £4 billion (US$8 billion) for the first time ever.But the growth in online shopping is being accompanied by a corresponding rise in Internet fraud, a survey reveals. In July 2007, UK Internet...

0708 Yodlee Tallies $1Bn in Fund Transfers Online account-to-account (A2A) bank transfers are becoming a must-have product for U.S banks, according to banking technology company, Yodlee. Redwood City, California-based Yodlee says its FundsTransfer service...

0707 Bouygues, Orange, et SFR viennent de s'associer à SNCF, la RATP, Keolis, Transdev et Veolia Transport pour la création d'un groupe de travail. L'objectif de celui-ci est de commercialiser, à partir de 2008, un standard qui permettrait de remplacer...

0707 un peu plus complet que les articles de presse sur le sujet.... L'utilisation de la carte en France est aujourd'hui totalement banalisée pour une grande majorité de porteurs. Une part de la population reste cependant réticente à l'utilisation de...

0706 French contactless technology vendor Ask has won an order to supply contactless badges for Cyclocity, a self-service bicycle rental business that is planning to start operations in several European cities. Cyclocity is operated by JCDecaux, a French...

0705 U.S online sales including travel purchases are expected to hit US$259 billion this year, according to the 10th annual Shop.org study from Forrester Research. This represents an 18 percent increase from last year's total online sales, the U.S.-based...

0705 But social networking sites show strong growth March internet viewing figures show that Google is still the most popular site among UK surfers, with 27.3 million page visits. The next most popular sites were Microsoft 's portfolio and eBay , with...

0704 Internet research firm IMRG predicts that UK online sales will reach GB£ 42bn (US$ 83.28bn EUR 61.63bn) in 2007, up from sales of GB£ 30.2bn the previous year. Online shoppers are expected to spend an average of GB£ 1,600 each in 2007. The growing...