Four UK retailers The Officers Club, Whittard of Chelsea, Zavvi and Adams Childrenswear have called in administrators during the Christmas week in 2008.

U.S. retailers are offering unprecedented discounts in their 2008 Day After Christmas sales to lure more customers to their websites for online shopping and to their stores.

There has never been a better opportunity for online retailers and holiday gift shoppers to come together and meet in a new online social networking place such as www.Reizit.com, which helps to raise awareness about better products and directs consumers to the pages where products and goods are sold.

Sierra Trading Post announces the addition of exciting website features to greatly enhance its customers' online shopping experience. Effective today, visitors to SierraTradingPost.com will notice a new, user-friendly interface that instantly transports shoppers from the homepage to any one of Sierra Trading Post's seven popular specialty shops.

Online retailers wary of the possibility of recession, or simply lacking the finance or other resources to expand abroad, are harnessing the advantages of advertising images over advertising words to market and sell their products globally.

Online Banking (the security of which) has been taking a beating over the past couple of weeks. But there's good news too...according to the BBC, Barclay's PIN Sentry Device has made online banking more secure. ( read more on Barclay's PIN Sentry Device and HomeATM's Wedgie) at: HomeATM Has Powerful Potential!

IBM today announced that online retailer Findel Direct, a division of Findel Plc., has selected IBM to create a single source of master data on all of its products. The aim of the project is to enhance Findel Direct’s ability to focus on customers and customer service.

With the so-called "Amazon Tax" taking effect in New York state on Sunday, Overstock.com filed suit Friday against New York, joining Amazon.com, which filed a similar lawsuit in early May.

Newegg is one of the more popular e-tailers for computer and technology products. In fact, according to Newegg, since launching in 2001, it's become the 10th biggest Internet retailer in the entire U.S. Why stop at tech?

InTrends, a leading online retailer of designer apparel & accessories, announced an expansion in their product line to include designer jeans from True Religion, Antik Denim, Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana, Habitual, Pure Venom among many other brands of designer denim. The newest additions follow recent expansions of clothing, sunglasses and designer handbags.

With Over 14,000 Purses, eBags' Handbags Category Drives Growth Into Holiday Season Preparing for Cyber Monday.

People are willing to pay extra to buy items from online retailers when they can easily ascertain how retailers' policies will protect their privacy, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows. Participants in the laboratory study used a Carnegie Mellon shopping search engine called Privacy Finder, http://www.privacyfinder.org, which can automatically evaluate a Web site's privacy policies and display the results on the search results page.