(NEW YORK) New
American Library to Publish 'The Sopranos: A Family
History'
NYMFNS3 10/02/2000
05:20 r l bc-CT-HunkMania-expands
(DANBURY)
HunkMania Male Revue Expands it's Operation to Connecticut!
LAM037 10/02/2000
06:01 r f bc-CO-AmeriVest-new-pres
(DENVER) AmeriVest
Names New President
NYM012 10/02/2000
06:01 r f bc-NJ-StorageApps-LSI
(BRIDGEWATER)
StorageApps Selects LSI Logic for High-Performance,
Fibre-Attached
SANLink Storage Systems
HSM055 10/02/2000
06:02 r n bc-MN-Mall-Amer-Sotheby
(BLOOMINGTON)
Snoopy Statues Fetch Big Bones at Sotheby's Auction
HSM069 10/02/2000
06:05 r f bc-NY-Warner-Music-Group
(NEW YORK) Warner
Music Group Unveils First Releases in DVD-Audio Format
LAM059 10/02/2000
06:30 r e bc-CA-Offspring-MP3.com
(SAN DIEGO) The
Offspring Releases Free Single on MP3.com Before Album
Hits Retail Stores
NYM057 10/02/2000
07:01 r f bc-NY-SmartBargains.com
(NEW YORK)
'Survivor' Host To Give Away Tropical Island Getaway At Launch
Of
Smartbargains.com, Just Before Heading To Australian Outback
NYM048 10/02/2000
07:02 r f bc-MA-Praecis-Pharm
(CAMBRIDGE)
PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED Invites You to View Its
UBS Warburg Global
Life Sciences Conference Investor Presentation
SFM025 10/02/2000
07:15 r f bc-CA-NBCi-AccuWeather
(SAN FRANCISCO)
NBCi and AccuWeather Unveil Anchor Tenancy and Content
Deal
SFM020 10/02/2000
07:30 r f bc-CA-American-Champion
(HAYWARD) ACEI's
Subsidiary BA Network Lands US$6 Million
Contract For Voice
and Data Lines
CHM001 10/02/2000
07:31 r e bc-TN-HGTV-fall-hints
(KNOXVILLE) Henry
Harrison, Host of New HGTV Series 'Help Around
The House,' Offers
Tips For Fall and Beyond
HSM046 10/02/2000
07:58 r f bc-MA-Market-Vision-Band
(BOSTON) Bands.com
Joins Forces w/Digital Adventure, HMV Canada to Launch
'City Rocks-Canada
Volume 1,' a CD Celebrating the Best in Canadian Rock
NYM008 10/02/2000
08:00 r e bc-NY-History-Channel
(NEW YORK) Modern
Marvels: Men at Work Week 2000
SFM003 10/02/2000
08:06 r f bc-CA-3DO-Co-Ships-Two
(REDWOOD CITY) 3DO
Ships Two Value Packs for PC
SFM004 10/02/2000
08:07 r f bc-CA-3DO-Co-Sammy-Sosa
(REDWOOD CITY)
Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball(TM) 2001
Championship
Edition Slides Safely Into Stores
NYM050 10/02/2000
08:08 r e bc-NY-History-Britain
(NEW YORK) The
History Channel(R) Presents a Six-Hour Mini-Series of Epic
Proportions And
Psychological Intensity That Offers a Transforming View...
NYM055 10/02/2000
08:08 r f bc-NY-Imbot.com-Zephyr
(NEW YORK)
Imbot.com, the Web Enabled Messaging Service, Receives Funding
SFM060 10/02/2000
08:08 r l bc-CA-eHow-Halloween
(SAN FRANCISCO)
Halloween's How-to Headquarters Launched Online at
eHow.com
LAM058 10/02/2000
08:09 r f bc-CA-Dotcomix-Duke-2000
(SAN FRANCISCO)
Dotcomix Brings Aboard New Talent
DCM018 10/02/2000
08:23 r v bc-DC-WWF-Vote-Smackdown
(NEWS ADVISORY)
The Rock Heads to Capitol Hill
SFM028 10/02/2000
08:30 r f bc-FL-CA-MyPoints-Mars
(FORT LAUDERDALE)
Mars Music and MyPoints.com Announce Marketing Agreement
CGM028 10/02/2000
09:00 r f bc-CA-Levy-BlueMeteor
(SAN FRANCISCO)
Levy Restaurants Selects BlueMeteor to Host Oracle
Applications On
World-Class Technology Infrastructure
LAM012 10/02/2000
09:00 r f bc-KS-Infinity-Inc.-Oil
(CHANUTE)
Infinity, Inc. Signs Letter of Intent With Major
Independent Oil
and Gas Company on LaBarge Project
LAM020 10/02/2000
09:01 r f bc-CO-ScheduleWise
(DENVER) Bonfils
Blood Center to Offer Scheduling Online;
High-Tech Solution
Will Increase Blood Donations
SFM066 10/02/2000
09:01 r f bc-CA-Phone-Telcel
(REDWOOD CITY)
Telcel Launches Commercial Wireless Internet
Service Using
Phone.com Platform
HSM004 10/02/2000
09:06 r e bc-FL-iTV-Freddie-award
(BOCA RATON) iTV
Celebrates Winning 2000 Freddie Award
FLM006 10/02/2000
09:07 r f bc-FL-SportsLine.com
(FORT LAUDERDALE)
SportsLine.com Records More Than 1 Billion
Page Views in
September
DEM009 10/02/2000
09:14 r v bc-MI-Masonic-Blast!
(NEWS ADVISORY)
Blast! An Explosive Musical Celebration Opens At the
Masonic Temple
Theatre October 3 at 8 p.m.
NYM059 10/02/2000
10:00 r e bc-NY-Arista-Stankonia
(NEW YORK) Arista
Artist Outkast Issues a Statement Regarding
Distribution of
Their Unreleased Album Stankonia Over the Internet
NYM111 10/02/2000
10:24 r f bc-TX-Panja-Music-Choice
(DALLAS) Panja and
Music Choice Form Alliance to Deliver Digital
Music Content to
Home Internet Appliances
DAM038 10/02/2000
11:38 r f bc-GA-Southwick-Invst
(ATLANTA)
Southwick Investments Initiates Coverage of Rick's
Cabaret With
Long-Term Buy Recommendation
MNM018 10/02/2000
11:42 r v bc-MN-Park-Nicollet
(NEWS ADVISORY)
Free Movie Screening at Park Nicollet Re: Breast
Cancer/Mountain
Climbing
NYM128 10/02/2000
11:55 r e bc-NY-World-Sports-oper
(NEW YORK) World
Sports Enterprises to Cease Production Operations
NYM027 10/02/2000
12:00 r v bc-CO-Red-Bull-Winter
(SALT LAKE CITY)
Renowned Skateboarder Tony Hawk Shines at
'Red Bull
Rock-N-Air'
LAM003 10/02/2000
12:01 r e bc-CA-Cypress-Hill-Smoke
(MARIETTA) Insider
Magazine Presents the 3rd Annual Cypress Hill Smoke Out
LAM106 10/02/2000
12:06 r e bc-CA-Wild-Brain-EM.TV
(SAN FRANCISCO)
Award-Winning Wild Brain Partners With EM.TV
For Hot New
Animated Series 'Mr. Baby'
NYM135 10/02/2000
12:29 r f bc-New-Cinema-Partners
(TORONTO) New
Cinema Partners to Amend 10-SB in Accordance with
Comments Received
from the Securities and Exchange Commission
NYM146 10/02/2000
12:37 r f bc-NY-Newsweek-Carlton
(NEW YORK)
Newsweek Productions and Carlton Television Announce Co-Venture
OT050 10/02/2000
12:39 r f bc-Marketing-Agreement
(CHARLOTTE)
eatsleepmusic.com and Sound Choice Accompaniment Tracks
Enter Strategic
Content Distribution and Marketing Agreement
CGM064 10/02/2000
12:43 r f bc-NC-ProMusicFind.com
(RALEIGH) Raleigh-based
ProMusicFind.com Acquires Second Largest
Record Dealer
Search Service on the Web
NYM158 10/02/2000
12:50 r a bc-MA-Miss-Universe-HIV
(BOSTON) Miss
Universe(R) to Speak at Forum on Women and
HIV/AIDS at The
Harvard AIDS Institute
NYM162 10/02/2000
13:08 r f bc-NY-Bloomberg-TV-new
(NEW YORK)
Bloomberg Television Launches Two New Shows,
Continuing Push
Into Branded Programming
LAM113 10/02/2000
13:14 r e bc-CA-Kalisto-Fox-Kids
(LOS ANGELES)
Kalisto Entertainment and Fox Kids Europe
Establish
Exclusive Partnership
LAM116 10/02/2000
13:17 r e bc-CA-Luis-Miguel-New-CD
(LOS ANGELES) VIVO
- Luis Miguel's Live CD Available in Stores
Tomorrow October 3
On Warner Music International
CGM074 10/02/2000
13:39 r e bc-IL-Playboy-Nov-intrvu
(CHICAGO) Ben
Stiller is Playboy's November Interview
DCM067 10/02/2000
13:43 r e bc-XM-Satellite-Radio
(WASHINGTON) XM
Satellite Radio Taps New Programming Talent;
Second Wave Brings
11 Additions
NYM125 10/02/2000
13:53 r e bc-NY-VH1-Kiss-PPV-conc
(NEW YORK) VH1
Classic Taken Over by KISS Legends Gene Simmons and Paul
Stanley for
Exclusive Pay-Per-View Concert 'Pre-Game' Show, October 7
LAM127 10/02/2000
14:12 r f bc-CA-TMCS-Iceland
(PASADENA)
Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch Expands International
Presence to
Iceland; TMCS Signs Agreement with World Wide Web Inc.
FLM011 10/02/2000
14:17 r v bc-TX-Walt-Disney-World
(NEWS ADVISORY)
Walt Disney World's Millennium Celebration Coming to
Hurricane Isabel
taught local students and teachers a physics lesson: It's hard to read in the
dark.
Schools took note
as they began reopening this past week. Accordingly, many have relaxed or even
banned homework temporarily, including Mack Benn Jr. Elementary in Suffolk.
``That was an
issue that did come up simply because some of our teachers don't have lights,
and their children go here,'' Principal Ronald M. Leigh Jr. said. ``Not only
that - it's pretty stressful right now.''
Thus schools walk
several fine lines: acknowledging reality while trying to return to routines
and keep up with academic demands.
Those demands mean
some students are hustling to catch up on missed work.
Brittney A. Brink
of Chesapeake's Great Bridge High had to cram for Friday tests in history and
English. Jazmyn Artis of Portsmouth's I.C. Norcom High moaned, ``I have a week
to learn what I'd have learned in two weeks.''
Margaret Bonay
faced a math quiz on her return Thursday to Landstown High in Virginia Beach,
and expected some 60 pages of reading - four times that of a typical night - in
Advanced Placement History.
Still, she said,
``I know a lot of teachers are pretty lenient.''
``I pretty much
backed off any major homework assignments,'' said Linda Lavender, a computer
teacher at the Beach's Advanced Technology Center - home Internet access
remains a problem for many students.
Private Norfolk
Academy recommended no tests or quizzes, and to go easy on the take-home stuff.
It also offered students use of its computers today. Exemptions were given from
an art assignment to sketch something ``under bright light,'' said Sarah K.
Johnson, a junior.
Norfolk principals
reminded staff that it's not just students without power. Jeanne Kruger of
Rosemont Middle e-mailed that ``both completing homework or grading it can be
difficult by flashlight.''
Louis C. Page,
principal of 1,200-student Norview Middle in Norfolk, charged teachers to move
forward with patience, remembering that some students remain powerless or even
homeless.
``In a school this
size,'' he said, ``you have some children who were untouched and others who had
severe situations.''
Microsoft's new
consumer PC operating system, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), sold 250,000
units in the U.S. during its first four days in the market, putting the product
on a path to sell more than 400,000 units in its first month, according to
early sales figures released today by PC Data. During its first day, Thursday,
Sept. 14, the product sold 75,000 units.
At the current
sales rate, the new operating system will easily surpass one million units sold
at retail before the end of the year. Microsoft's two previous upgrades,
Windows 95 and Windows 98, sold 600,000 in their first month on the market.
Each title went on to sell two million units in their first six months.
"Windows Me
has a way to go before it becomes the top selling product of the year,"
said Roger C. Lanctot, senior director of research for PC Data. "But the
title is likely to have a huge impact on how home PCs are used now and in the
future."
"Its
integration of video, audio, photo editing and recording capabilities will
bring this functionality to a wider audience, and create new opportunities for
both publishers and peripheral manufacturers. The product's arrival has already
given a boost to lagging retail software sales and promises to provide a push
for fourth quarter sales in all software categories. Windows Me is the most
important new piece of software in 2000," he added.
About PC Data
PC Data
is the leading provider of high tech sales intelligence in the United States.
Its PC Data Online division has become a primary source of Web measurement
through its panel of over 120,000 U.S. home Internet users. It also conducts
rapidly deployed surveys over the Internet. In addition to the U.S., PC Data
collects online data in the Pacific Rim, Australia, Italy and Canada.
Yahoo.com, aol.com
and msn.com continued to dominate the August Top 100, according to a PC Data
Online report released today. At the same time, several diverse categories --
women, online financial resources, e-tail, and lottery and sweepstake --
exhibited new signs of strength and growth.
PC Data Online, a
leading Internet research firm that specializes in web commerce measurement,
compiles a monthly list of the top web sites, based on unique users that visit
the site. The list is based on a proprietary software tool that tracks visitors
and buyers on each web site.
"When you
compare August 2000 web activity with a year ago, it is obvious that a more
savvy, sophisticated user has replaced the typical online neophyte," said
Jeff Moulton, Internet analyst for PC Data Online. "Users are clearly
showing a growing online confidence and comfort with the Internet, and, as a
result, the next wave of web activity is emerging."
The increasing
presence of women on the net accounted for advances for ivillage.com and
women.com. Ivillage moved in the No. 43 slot from the No. 74 position in July,
while women.com advanced six places to the No. 62 position from No. 68 in July.
Sites that make
online usage and financial transactions easier also showed gains. E-wallet site
gator.com continued its steady climb up the chart in August to the No. 48
position from No. 65 last month. X.com (formerly paypal.com), which arranges
financial payments and transfers online, advanced from No. 76 in July to No. 60
in August. Nextcard.com, a Visa-related site that helps online management of
money, scored the highest ranking of the group at the No. 44 site, up from No.
51 in July.
Retail sites saw
increased shopping traffic in August. Amazon.com maintained its dominant
position in the No. 12 site. Cdnow.com had an impressive 25 percent increase in
traffic, moving up to No. 58 from No. 87 in July. Half.com, an e-bay.com
affiliate that offers large discounts on e-tail items, premiered on the Top 100
in the No. 65 spot from the No. 116 spot with a 41 percent increase in traffic.
Barnesandnoble.com moved up five positions to No. 79 from No. 84 with a seven
percent increase in traffic. Ourhouse.com, a home improvement site, made the
biggest gain among e-tailers moving up to No. 92 from No. 156 with a 50 percent
increase in traffic.
The lottery and
sweepstakes category continues to evolve as the web's prominent recreational
activity, claiming nine of the Top 100 positions. They are: freelotto.com at
No. 25 with 12.1 million unique users, webstakes.com at No. 36 with 9.6 million
unique users, luckysurf.com at No. 37 with 9.5 million unique users, iwin.com
at No. 41 with 9.million unique users, imustlotto.com at No. 74 with 6.5
million, grouplotto.com at No. 85 with 6.1 million, easywinning.com at No. 86
with 6.1 million, jackpot.com at No. 95 with 5.8 million unique users and
windough.com at No. 96 with 5.7 million unique users.
New to the Top 100
in August were entertainment site eonline.com (from No. 105 to No. 88), CBS'
sports site sportsline.com (from No. 123 to No. 98) and games site dealtime.com
(from No. 110 to No. 100).
About PC Data
PC Data was
established in 1991 and is a leading source of computer hardware, software and
gaming intelligence and data. Its PC Data Online division is a leading provider
of web traffic measurement and analysis. Through its 120,000 home Internet
panel, PC Data Online also fields custom, state-of-the-art Internet based
surveys from topics ranging from online music trends to online behavioral
differences between men and women to web buying preferences and trends.
August Top 100
Aug Rank July Rank
Web Site Aug Unique Users (000) %Change
1 1 yahoo.com
54,393 4
2 2 aol.com 48,340
5
3 3 msn.com 42,355
3
4 4 microsoft.com
33,134 4
5 5 passport.com
32,036 2
6 6 geocities.com
30,815 0
7 7
AOLProprietary.aol 30,153 3
8 8 lycos.com
22,486 9
9 10 ebay.com
19,970 5
10 12
angelfire.com 19,109 5
11 13 excite.com
19,028 9
12 11 amazon.com
18,998 5
13 9 altavista.com
18,824 -8
14 14 netscape.com
17,779 3
15 15 tripod.com
16,736 5
16 16 ask.com
16,199 6
17 17 iwon.com
16,067 11
18 19 about.com
15,824 17
19 21
speedyclick.com 14,197 16
20 26 go.com
14,112 23
21 20 real.com
13,457 4
22 28 cnet.com
12,885 17
23 18
americangreetings.com 12,805 -6
24 23
looksmart.com 12,527 9
25 22
freelotto.com 12,154 -1
26 24 goto.com
11,823 3
27 25
bluemountain.com 11,629 1
28 46
passthison.com 11,214 39
29 30
infospace.com 11,099 3
30 34
homestead.com 10,651 11
31 55 jobsonline.com
10,547 44
32 29 zdnet.com
10,377 -4
33 27 xoom.com
10,243 -7
34 41 mypoints.com
10,166 20
35 32 msnbc.com
9,990 -6
36 33
webstakes.com 9,637 1
37 37
luckysurf.com 9,547 6
38 44
prizecentral.com 9,386 14
39 38 mapquest.com
9,087 2
40 39 uproar.com
9,054 2
41 47 iwin.com
9,022 12
42 31
priceline.com 8,589 -20
43 72 ivillage.com
8,477 35
44 51 nextcard.com
8,449 11
45 43
alladvantage.com 8,375 -1
46 36 snap.com
8,240 -13
47 50
digitalcity.com 8,212 5
48 65 gator.com
7,999 23
49 52
coolsavings.com 7,972 7
50 42 mailbits.com
7,894 -7
51 35 napster.com
7,867 -17
52 59 cnn.com
7,822 13
53 60 espn.com
7,671 12
54 61
windowsmedia.com 7,669 13
55 63 google.com
7,500 14
56 57 weather.com
7,494 6
57 45
shockwave.com 7,384 -10
58 87 cdnow.com
7,297 25
59 108 unicast.com
7,115 44
60 76 x.com 7,073
15
61 53 icq.com
6,950 -6
62 68 women.com
6,922 8
63 54 flowgo.com
6,831 -7
64 103 bizrate.com
6,821 34
65 116 half.com
6,770 41
66 88
earthlink.com 6,769 17
67 70 sexshare.com
6,767 7
68 40
gamesville.com 6,725 -22
69 89
preferences.com 6,712 16
70 79 bonzi.com
6,590 10
71 78
fortunecity.com 6,577 9
72 56 porncity.net
6,526 -8
73 85
classmates.com 6,525 11
74 148
imustlotto.com 6,504 60
75 49 onhealth.com
6,498 -18
76 67 webmd.com
6,376 -1
77 58
travelocity.com 6,329 -10
78 64
lifeminders.com 6,325 -4
79 84
barnesandnoble.com 6,322 7
80 62 disney.com
6,249 -7
81 *
digital-impact.com 6,231 *
82 71 karasxxx.com
6,214 -1
83 66 mtv.com
6,193 -5
84 73 expedia.com
6,174 -1
85 126
grouplotto.com 6,163 37
86 92
easywinning.com 6,114 10
87 149
hotsocket.com 6,069 49
88 105 eonline.com
6,066 19
89 81 v3.com 6,058
2
90 69 cjb.net
6,013 -5
91 80
majorhost.com 5,938 -1
92 156
ourhouse.com 5,867 50
93 96 pogo.com
5,863 8
94 107
planetofmusic.com 5,827 17
95 109 jackpot.com
5,785 17
96 97 windough.com
5,674 6
97 * akamai.net
5,583 *
98 123
sportsline.com 5,571 22
99 86
cybererotica.com 5,555 -5
100 110
dealtime.com 5,509 11
* PC Data does not
consider these sites true sites in the traditional definition of a web site.
Web sites, according to PC Data, are defined as a primary domain.
Morgan Crucible's
ex-chief charged THE former chief executive of Morgan Crucible, Ian Norris, and
three others have been charged in the US with attempting to obstruct a
price-fixing probe into the carbon products industry.
Two of the four -
not including Norris - agreed to plead guilty on some counts.
Possible penalties
include fines and up to 10 years in prison. The charges were filed in
Philadelphia. In 2002, Morgan Crucible (down 1p at 127p) paid [pounds
sterling]7m fines to settle antitrust charges.
Capital on prowl
CAPITAL Radio says it 'will be looking at acquisitions next year'. Its shares
fell 221/2p to 4971/2p as six-month likefor-like radio revenues fell 3pc.
ClassicFM's owner GWR said its underlying UK revenues are up 4pc.
Merger blueprint
AIR France and KLM are poised to agree an 80:20 merger, but the role of
potential partner Alitalia remains unclear.
Caudwell
'shopping' MOBILES tycoon John Caudwell, who this week sold his Phones4u retail
chain to Vodafone for [pounds sterling]400m, is seeking an acquisition of up to
[pounds sterling]1bn 'outside mobile and inside the UK'.
Crunch for Names
LLOYD'S Names were told that the EU Commission plans to close its probe into
whether UK law gave adequate supervision to the Lloyd's market. The European
Parliament said the Commission must decide by November 15.
Gloom for insurers
THE financial strength of UK insurers fell further in the past year, says
credit agency Standard & Poor's. It downgraded over a dozen leading
companies including the Prudential, Standard Life and Friends Provident.
S&P expects the downward trend to slow in the next three years.
Amstrad's [pounds
sterling]3.8m SIR Alan Sugar's Amstrad lost another [pounds sterling]6m on its
em@iler home internet gadget last year, though sales doubled. Group profits
were [pounds sterling]3.8m pretax, against [pounds sterling]1.8m losses.
Dividends rose 0.7p to 3p. Amstrad fell 21/2p to 117p.
Dana gusher DANA
Petroleum's UK, Russian and African fields trebled its first-half oil output.
Net profits soared from [pounds sterling]1.3m to [pounds sterling]11m, cash
flow from [pounds sterling]3.5m to [pounds sterling]18m. Dana fell 31/2p to
2361/2p.
Yahoo! Inc
attracted the biggest global audience in July, according to a report by the
research firm Nielsen/Net Ratings.
The research found
that Yahoo! attracted a global audience of 66m people, followed by America
Online (AOL) with 62m and Microsoft's MSN with 50m visitors on an at-home basis
only, said Nielsen/Net Ratings.
The company
measured usage in the US, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Singapore and Japan in July. MSN was ranked first in terms of unique audience
in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and Yahoo! was first in Japan,
Singapore and Ireland. AOL was ranked first in the US.
MSN logged the
most minutes online per user in Australia, Ireland, Canada and Singapore, while
Yahoo! logged the most time in New Zealand, the UK, Canada and the US in July.
The report also
found that about 42% of home Internet users (around 52m people) visited
shopping sites in July.
BRITAIN went into
a pounds 22.4million-an-hour Christmas shopping frenzy yesterday - without
setting foot in the shops.
Yesterday was
Cyber Monday - the world's biggest online shopping day - according to price
comparison site Kelkoo.
An estimated
pounds 537million was spent at the click of a mouse.
According to a
survey by Tesco Direct, 78 per cent of consumers will indulge in
"non-store shopping". Here we look at just how popular internet
shopping has become since the first online store began trading around 15 years
ago.
Following the
introduction of online banking in 1994, internet shopping began when Pizza Hut
launched the first online pizza shop. The following year, Amazon launched and
auction site eBay burst on to the market in 1996.
When online
shopping began, the main users were young men, usually with a high income,
according to the authors of The Impact of Internet User Shopping Patterns and
Demographics on Consumer Mobile Buying Behaviour.
This profile is
changing. In the US, the early years of the internet showed very few female
users but by 2001 women made up 52.8 per cent of the online population.
In the early
2000s, Tesco became of the first major retailers to make their goods available
online and delivered to the consumers' homes via their "pioneering"
Tesco.com. Today, they are recognised as the world's largest online grocer with
an online annual turnover of pounds 1billion.
In 2008, Tesco had
a 27.1 per cent share of UK site visits compared wit h Asda (10.1per cent), Ald
i (who don't sel l online) 9.5 per cent, Sainsbury''s (6.9 per cent) and
Waitrose/ Ocado on 4.2 per cent.
In the mid-2000s,
Britain's largest clothing retailers M&S launched their online shop.
Almost a third of
consumers are planning to do more Christmas shopping online this year than they
did last year, according to the latest Interactive Media in Retail Group
e-Customer Service index.
Sixty-one per cent
of e-shoppers plan to do 50 per cent or more of their present-buying.
According to IMRG,
UK consumers will spend pounds 17.4billion online during the last quarter of
this year - the up from pounds 15billion in 2009.
A survey by Tesco
Direct found that one in 10 British shoppers will use their mobile phone to buy
presents online this year, instead of using a home PC or laptop.
Smart phones have
meant that those with hectic lives can shop for bargains on the go using their
handheld devices.
In fact, the
survey found that half of those shopping using a smart phone and
"apps" will do so in front of the TV while one in four will log on to
shopping sites during the daily commute.
eBay Mobile made
online Christmas shopping easier for their visitors firstly by merging then
buying and selling apps -then they introduced an innovative app that includes a
barcode-scanning feature you can use to scan a product and compare its price to
eBay.
In the US, seven
million shoppers will buy using their mobile phones this year, says the
National Retail Federation, compared with just four million in 2009.
During their
busiest day, Play.com predict 1200 orders will be placed every minute.
There are two peak
purchase times for Play.com shoppers - just after 9am as mums arrive home after
the school run (or as employees arrive in the office for the working day - more
than half of orders received by Amazon last year were from work PCs) or at
9.30pm.
Amazon have always
been the must-visit online store for savvy e-shoppers. On the first Monday of
last December, they sold two million items during a 24-hour period.
Globally, Amazon
have experienced a 26-40 per cent increase in online orders on last year.
Amazon Mobile UK have introduced an Amazon Remembers app which lets you take
snapshots of products in a store to remember them later.
Sales for
Tesco.com almost reached pounds 1billion in 2005, with profits for the online
store up by 55 per cent to pounds 56.2million.
Five years on,
Tesco reported their web revenue continued to rise year-on-year, generating a
profit last year of pounds 136million.
They put their success
down to new sites clothingattesco.com and tescoentertainment.planning com, both
of which were launched in October last year.
The online
shopping phenomenon looks set to explode in the next five years, according to
food and grocery experts at IGD.
The organisation
predict that the market value in the UK will double to pounds 9.5billion by
2015.
The rising trend
is driven mainly by 18 to 34-year-olds and is down to developments including
smart phone apps and "click and collect".
Joanne
Denney-Finch, chief executive of IGD, also said: "Wider delivery coverage
and better home internet connections are some other reasons why internet
grocery retail has the potential to grow significantly."
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