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Leading online retailer eBay has urged its users to change their passwords after its systems were attacked by hackers. The company has revealed that the attack actually took place in February and early March and involved the theft of encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of …
Read More »Apple Stores fall from 1st to 13th in Which favourite retailers survey
UK consumers are apparently falling out of love with Apple Stores over accusations of poor customer service. This year’s Which Shop Survey found that the chain is now the UK’s 13th favourite retailer – a sharp drop from last year when it topped the ratings. Several customers complained about it …
Read More »Child of Light launching on Vita
Ubisoft’s turn-based RPG Child of Light is to land on Vita in July. A digital edition of Child of Light will launch on PSN on July 2nd for 11.99. Meanwhile, a Complete Edition will hit UK retail on the same day, which includes additional game content including a bonus quest, …
Read More »Buyers of John Lewis £112 Wii U bundle miss out
The internet was last week set alight for a few brief moment as John Lewis offered an unbelievable discount on Wii U hardware. On offer was a Wii U Basic console along with a copy of New Super Mario Bros U and 8GB SD card for just 112 – less …
Read More »Buy something at GAME for a chance to get some ‘virtual loyalty shares’
We’re used to retailers giving away free store credit, but virtual shares? That’s a new one. GAME yesterday announced that as part of its proposed flotation it would be offering 20,000 Reward Card customers some virtual loyalty shares” worth around 1.8m. As part of this, 2,000 customers who are not …
Read More »GAME declares intention to float on stock exchange
UK retailer GAME has finally confirmed what has been on the cards for months – it’s going to float itself on the stock exchange. It will be doing so under the name GAME Digital. It’s a remarkable change of fortunes for a company that in March 2012 fell into administration, …
Read More »Dixons and Carphone Warehouse merger confirmed
Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse have confirmed that they are to merge in a deal worth 3.8bn. The parent firm of Currys and PC World and the mobile phone outlet will split ownership of the newly created firm, which will be known as Dixons Carphone, equally between their existing shareholders. …
Read More »CeX Glasgow to trial Bitcoin for three days
The upcoming vote on Scottish independence has lead to a pioneering experiment in the Glasgow branch of CeX. Retail Week reports that the store is for three days only accepting purchases made with digital currency Bitcoin. It will also pay out for trade-ins in the currency. Apparently it’s an effort …
Read More »MP calls for UK shoppers to boycott Amazon amidst tax row
Labour MP and chair of the public accounts committee Margaret Hodge has called for UK shoppers to boycott online retailer Amazon. That’s because Amazon UK paid just 4.2m in tax to the UK treasury this year (and 3.2m the year before) despite registering sales to the tune of 4.3bn. That …
Read More »Nvidia’s first G-Sync monitor due at UK retail this month
The first monitor to include Nvidia’s G-Sync technology as standard is due to hit UK shelves in the next few weeks. The AOC g2460Pg is said by AOC to be the first monitor to integrate Nvidia’s long-touted G-Sync technology into its design, rather than requiring aretrofitted kit. Demonstrating the technology …
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