The number of UK adults planning to buy Valentine’s Day gifts or cards has dropped to 45% from 50% last year – the equivalent of 2.5 million people – according to new research.
Phones made by China’s Xiaomi – the world’s fourth biggest smartphone maker – are going on sale in the US for the first time, but they won’t be able to run on 4G networks.
Microsoft has bought London-based SwiftKey, a pioneer in touchscreen typing apps, according to reports.
Nicholas Mann, owner and managing director of Interdirect gives us his take on the colourful little characters that seem to be leading the way in the future of emotional expression in digital communication.
Grim sales forecasts for smartwatch sales have been reaffirmed by new research commissioned by The BIO Agency, which found just 6% of British adults intend to buy one in the next 12 months.
Twitter is considering ditching its 140-character limit in tweets, expanding it to a whopping 10,000 characters.
The latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index have revealed that online retail sales in November recorded their highest ever month-on-month (MoM) growth since the Index launched 15 years ago – up 40%.
Online sales driven by UK retailers’ paid search ads on Black Friday were up nearly 25% this year compared with 2014 according to new data released by Kenshoo.
Online sales on Black Friday increased 21.5% this year from 2014, according to IBM, and Adobe reports US spending was more than $2.7 billion.
This Christmas, one-third of UK shoppers want to use click-and-collect, a quarter to buy presents on their smartphones and over half want home-delivery as consumers report these services are central to how they expect to shop and receive their orders this festive season according to new research .