Online retailing 'surging ahead'
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Online retailing in the UK has grown at its fastest annual rate since the dotcom bubble burst, a survey finds.
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Fueled by Web searches for iPods, Elmos, gift cards and video game consoles, online retailers are expecting sales to increase by about 20 percent this year.
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AUGUST 20, 2004  - While they&#39;re still only a tiny portion of overall US retail sales, retail online sales continued to rise in the second quarter to $15.
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By Mark Albright, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Feb. 2--KISSIMMEE -- Internet shopping sales soared 24 percent to  $100-billion in 2006, but it's hardly blues skies on the industry horizon.
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Retail sales have risen sharply in the run-up to the key Christmas season, adding to data which suggests the economy is gathering pace and interest rates may rise next year.
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U.S. retail sales over the Internet  rose 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2004 and gained 23.1  percent compared with the same period last year as consumers  continued to turn to e-commerce to make purchases, a government  report showed on Friday.
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Internet advertising and access  spending by U.S. consumers will rise each year by double digits  on average through 2011, fuelled by high-speed connections and  social networking and entertainment sites, according to a  forecast released on Thursday.
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Market research firm reports online spending was strong this holiday season, up 19 percent from last year.
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Researcher says U.S. shoppers will fork out $13.2 billion online this season, but year-over-year increases are slipping.
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Holiday shoppers gravitated toward the Internet in big numbers late last year, with online retailers reaping some US&#36;23 billion from U.S. consumers. That figure marks a 25 percent increase from the &#36;18.5 billion spent online during the same period in 2003.
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Online retail sales overseas continue to show significant growth, according to the latest figures released by the US Department of Commerce.
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For those pushing their way through the Black Friday crowds on the year&#39;s busiest shopping day, this is the year they may resolve to join the record number of online shoppers.
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Online auction king eBay (Quote, Chart) reported a better than 50 percent rise in quarterly revenue from last year and profits that jumped by about 77 percent compared to last year, thanks in part to its PayPal unit and growth overseas.
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Spending by Americans shopping  online during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent from a  year earlier to $8.8 billion, with sharp gains in purchases of  clothing and entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. VRSN.O  said on Thursday.
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At a time when conventional retailing has been sluggish at best, e-commerce is flourishing.
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UK internet sales rose by 50% in the run up to Christmas, compared to a year earlier, a survey says.
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Search Engine Marketing Mistakes Retailers Need to Avoid  According to a recent survey conducted by Shop.org and Forrester, in 2003, online retail sales jumped 51% to reach $114 billion with 79% of all online retailers (etailers) were profitable. Online sales are expected to reach 6.6 percent of total retail sales in ...