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When I started in e-commerce nearly 15 years ago, there was a clear demographic split between online shoppers and “traditional” shoppers.

Online sales are rising strongly this month despite a slump in high street spending this month, according to CBI figures.

After the social media revolution, is e-commerce the next big thing in India? Recent reports indicate so.

The year in social media: Revolutions to riots, cyber-bullying to superinjunctions, social networking has dominated 2011

Ecommerce saw a significant increase in the number of customers choosing click and collect options during the third quarter of the year, latest reports have shown.

European small businesses are leading the first generation of digitally-native businesses, with mobile social networking and innovative technology tools becoming the backbone of how they do business day to day.

Ecommerce businesses looking to increase the number of shoppers visiting their website during the festive period have been warned to expect an influx of traffic from smartphone handsets during the month of November.

Social networking site Facebook has revealed that it has to fend off around 600,000 security attacks from hackers every day.

Marketing chiefs feel overwhelmed by the growing volume of customer data on websites like Facebook and Twitter, and while they realise its potential value they consider themselves ill-equipped to harness it, an IBM study found.

With the unprecedented growth of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, there has come an increased level of focus by business on reaching customers via social media marketing campaigns – spread across the platforms.