The average time between when an online shopper first vists a website and when they make their first purchase has increased by 15 hours in the past two years, according to a survey by ScanAlert.
Wolseley UK, the building materials retailer, is to implement a 2,500-user eProcurement and spend-control system from Proactis across its UK operations, which include Plumb Center, Build Center and Bathstore.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has said it has saved more than half on its order-processing costs by implementing an electronic procurement and trading system for local government.
Google has been voted the most significant e-commerce development of the past decade in a poll carried out by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIAA).