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The eponymous and highly successful co-founder of Christopher Ward is profiled in the Guardian.

We have built an effective store finder for online retailers with stores using Google Maps.

Thorntons – home of chocolate gifting – has recently launched its m-commerce website.

Crave Maternity, the maternity business, has entered into a Creditors Voluntary Agreement which has been ratified by its creditors. All the background is here.

Excellent online customer service may be worth US$17.3 billion in 2010, according to a new Ovum/StellaService report. That’s a 10% premium consumers are willing to pay.

The company behind Magento, Varien, has received a major capital investment, which will help put in on a stronger footing relative to the enterprise e-commerce players. Screen Pages has been working with Magento for over a year now and has probably completed more bespoke Magento implementations than any other e-commerce service provider in the UK. [Read more]

An interesting article on Email Marketing performance covering ‘Deeper Perspective in Benchmarks’, ‘International Comparison’ & ‘Benchmarks Beyond Average’…

Ecommerce sites tend to use Facebook and Twitter above other social media sites in their digital marketing campaigns. This is according to an artcile by Blu Halo, which shows that 78 % of the US online retailers it polled use Facebook, while 75.6% utilise Twitter for social media marketing purposes. About 11% of respondents revealed [Read more]

Interesting article on e-consultancy with eBags founder Peter Cobb. Extremely valid points re. email segmentation, promotional activity & recent shifts in online patterns.