Argos has like many other m-commerce retailers has opted to add PayPal to it’s rosta of payment providers. Argos this weekend will be rolling out it’s 75th catalogue and at the same time it will be adding PayPal as a payment option to it’s e-commerce and m-commerce systems. Mobile is seen to be a potential…
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Marks & Spencer’s mobile grabs the EMMAs
Retailer Marks & Spencer walked away with two awards at the Effective Mobile Marketing Awards (EMMAs) ceremony in London, making it the most awarded business of the night. The high-Street retailer, took the award for Most Effective Mobile Site, created by Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), and for Most Effective Mobile CRM/Enterprise Messaging Campaign, where it…
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Argos iPhone app hits 800k downloads
The high-street retailer Argos is in rude health on the mobile front. James Tarbuck Argos’s Multi-Channel Programme and Operations Manager revealed a few interesting facts at the Internet retailing 2010 conference yesterday. The Argos iPhone app is doing very well. Since it’s launch on May 22 the app has been downloaded over 800,000 times –…
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Where to buy an iPad
The two months wait is over. Yes it’s official you can now buy an iPad from anywhere you want. DSG International’s (DSGi) two-month monopoly on Apple’s iPad has finally come to an end. From this week you now no longer have to skulk around with the spotty youths running PC World, Dixons Travel airport shops,…
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Argos app hits 500,000 downloads in three weeks
Argos has revealed today that “strong consumer demand” and above-the-line marketing support – a TV ad and a iPhone press ad – for the Argos iPhone app has resulted in more than 500,000 downloads in just three weeks, and on one day Saturday 28 May 2010 the retailer had over 40,000 downloads. The Argos app…
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Argos to launch iPhone app after huge Apple user interest
Argos customers will soon be able to access over 25,000 Argos products on the move, following the launch of the free Argos iPhone Application which is expected to launch in the coming days. Argos is confident of high consumer demand for the App following a traffic increase of over 600% from mobile Apple devices to…