Tagged: Retail
-
Frockadvisor fashions e-commerce for independent retailers News
14.05.2013 Sonya Lennon, stylist and TV presenter, is turning her eye to fusing technology with retail. Together with her fellow presenter Brendan Courtney from the RTÉ fashion show Off... -
Oxfam Ireland gives computers new lease of life for resale from €120 News
13.05.2013 Oxfam Ireland’s new Born Again initiative offers refurbished computers for sale in-store and online for a fraction of their original price.Categories: Computers -
Sage Pay roadshow and new e-tail body offer e-commerce assistance to Irish businesses News
13.05.2013 In Ireland, €4bn of the total €35bn spent on retail goes to online retailers, but not necessarily those based in Ireland. This figure is predicted to grow to €11.3bn over the...Categories: Online Business, eCommerce -
The five minute CIO: Vincent Nolan News
10.05.2013 Smyths Toys is one of Ireland’s fastest-growing retailers. Its head of IT Vincent Nolan talks about changing the mindset from an SME to an enterprise, and why IT operations... -
Retail Ireland Conference 2013 Events
23.05.2013 The Retail Ireland Annual Conference 2013 carries the theme of ‘Inspiring the Consumer’. This theme will focus on how the sector as a whole, and individual retailers, can... -
Best Buy to sell off its European business to Carphone Warehouse for stg£500m News
30.04.2013 One of America’s leading technology retailers Best Buy has revealed that it plans to sell off its 50pc stake in Best Buy Europe to Carphone Warehouse for an estimated stg£500m...Categories: Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, Leadership & Management, Deals Done, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Seasoned start-up co-founders put the detail back into retail News
16.04.2013 Sometimes in life it is the journey and not the destination that matters the most. That could be said of Conall Lavery, a seasoned Irish technology executive who sold his IT... -
BlackBerry wants probe of ‘false’ report about BlackBerry Z10 return rates News
12.04.2013 BlackBerry is to ask securities regulators in Canada and the US to review what it says is a “false and misleading” report about retail return rates for its new Z10 smartphone. -
Discount voucher start-up Voucher Pages launches new coupon platform News
09.04.2013 Irish online discount voucher directory Voucher Pages has launched a new coupon platform to allow users to view discounted offers for products and services without having to... -
Nokia closes flagship store in Shanghai, China News
05.04.2013 Nokia shoppers in Shanghai, China, will have to buy the company’s mobile devices at retailers and mobile carriers, now that Nokia has closed what it had deemed its largest store... -
Social rewards app Popdeem will be ready for retailers next week News
28.03.2013 Fresh from successful showcases at the London Web Summit and the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Texas, Wayra-accelerated Irish start-up Popdeem is preparing for the... -
ESB reports profits of €194m for 2012 News
13.03.2013 Electricity utility ESB’s operating profit dropped 12pc to €415m in 2012 and profit after tax amounted to €194m, the company revealed in its annual report for 2012, published... -
The technology business week: Economic impact of the ‘Internet of Everything’, Eircom expands fibre rollout News
25.02.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Google to open its own retail stores this year? News
18.02.2013 Move over Apple stores, Google stores are on the way, and just in time for Christmas shopping. Maybe. -
Say it with clicks: consumers prefer to buy their Valentine’s gifts online News
13.02.2013 Given the choice, up to 82pc of Irish consumers would be open to buying their Valentine’s Day gifts online rather than in a physical store, while 18pc would prefer to shop in a...Categories: Online Business, Internet, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Limerick brothers launch e-commerce solution for the retail sector News
13.02.2013 A Limerick duo has created a new e-commerce solution called CueCommerce, with the aim of helping the retail sector capitalise on the growth of online shopping.Categories: Online Business, Mobile, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Consumer Tech -
Half of new retail customer IDs will be based on social network IDs by 2015 - Gartner News
07.02.2013 Imagine a world where personal information from social profiles can be imported to other sites requiring users to log in, therefore reducing users’ need to remember passwords...