Spending over tablets has risen considerably and is making a major contribution to this channel’s figures. According to the latest figures that have been issued regarding mobile commerce sales in the United Kingdom, there have been massive year over year increases recorded when comparing June of this year to that of 2012. Even the comparison of the sales figures from May to June have shown a very meaningful rise. The report that was jointly issued by Capgemini and the research firm called the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) has…
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Mobile commerce makes up one fifth of U.K. online purchases
A recent report has shown that smartphone and tablet shopping have increased by 5,000 percent in three years. A new mobile commerce report has just been released by Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) and Capgemini has suggested that in the first quarter of this year, 20.2 percent of the purchases made online came from smartphones or tablet devices. The report found that the adoption of shopping over smartphones and tablets is explosive in the U.K. Moreover, not only is mobile commerce growing extremely rapidly, it is reaching levels that…
Read MoreMobile commerce sends British retail skyward in April
The performance of the sector in the United Kingdom received considerable benefit from smartphones and tablets. Online sales underwent a significant growth in the United Kingdom in April, this year, and a great deal of it is being credited to the contribution of mobile commerce, said the British Retail Consortium. The trade association for the British retail industry reported that the impact of smartphones and tablets is massive. The latest report from the British Retail Consortium looked directly at the growth and impact of online shopping and indicated that mobile…
Read MoreMobile commerce study in U.K. identifies top performers
The research, conducted by EPiServer, showed that Debenhams has the leading smartphone shopping experience. The results of the latest EPiServer study have shown that the among the leading 30 mobile commerce websites and apps, the top performers in the United Kingdom are Debenhams, Expedia, and Argos. The report showed issued a score to the smartphone friendly websites of 30 of the leading retailers in the U.K. The websites and apps of these British retailers were scored against a benchmark of detailed best practices. The data used for the scoring was…
Read MoreMcommerce Android apps in the U.K. are growing quickly
Shopping and banking applications are increasing in use faster than most others. The latest data from the United Kingdom is showing that the use of banking and mcommerce apps is growing more quickly among Android device users than the use of gaming applications. That said, Facebook and Google are still at the lead of that marketplace, regardless of their nature. Nielsen statistics are showing that among the top 15 major apps that are growing the most rapidly for users of Android devices, seven are related to mcommerce, such as those…
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