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Home Retail Group has reported a year of flat sales and reduced profits, but owned multi-channel retailer Argos has had a better year. The company also announced a ‘transformation plan’ to reinvent Argos as a digital retail leader and reposition it from a catalogue-led to a digitally-led business. The firm’s …
Read More »Discover new sales and profit opportunities at PCR Boot Camp
A free Jabra Solemate Bluetooth speaker worth 150 will be given to all attendees of next month’s PCR Boot Camp. PCR Boot Camp, organised by MCV sister magazine PCR, is a conference and expo for the UK’s top technology retailers. The one-day event returns for a second year at The …
Read More »Dixons celebrates a good Christmas
Dixons Retail, owner of PC World and Currys, has today reported strong sales for the 12 weeks up to January 5th, including the Christmas period. Like-for-like sales were up seven per cent, with UK and Ireland doing one better on eight per cent (based on stores open for the full …
Read More »Comet staff offered Xmas lifeline by Dixons Retail
Sebastian James, group CEO of Dixons Retail, has told Radio 5 Live this morning that the firm hopes to offer Comet staff around 2,000 jobs over Christmas. Comet,which went into administration last week,is currently still trading, but its 7,000 employees all risk losing their jobs before the holidays. James commented:"Comet …
Read More »Realtime Distribution and VIP Computers announce merger
UK IT distributors VIP Computers and Realtime Distribution have announced that they are to combine their business operations. The company will berebranded as VIP Computers and will continue to operate from its existingWarrington andHuntingdon offices.VIP Computers is one of the UK’s largestindependent distributors of components, peripherals and consumer products, while …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: Guild Wars 2
Getting online this weekend was the first battle for many Guild Wars 2 gamers. The three-day headstart hit something of a stumbling block with creaky login servers and firewall problems that look to have cropped up again today on the main launch date. But was Guild Wars 2 worth the …
Read More ȣ4bn wiped from Tesco value
Supermarket retailer Tesco has seen more than 4 billion disappear from its share price after issuing a profit warning and revealing that UK sales fell by 2.3 per cent over Christmas. Chief executive Philip Clarke said: "In a challenging economic environment, we made good progress internationally but despite record sales, …
Read More »Ban on 1994’s Doom finally lifted in Germany
Germany has removed restrictions from Doom and Doom II after a ban on selling it to teenagers spanning 17 years. In 1994, Germany put it on an index of controlled titles, believing that it could harm youths due to its level of violence. The video game could only be bought …
Read More »Anonymous investigators arrest two in UK
The Metropolitan Police arrested two suspects today for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The arrests were made as part of an investigation with the FBI, South Yorkshire Police and other law enforcement bodies into hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec, and in particular the activities of …
Read More »PopCap lands Sony Ericsson deal
Casual games firm PopCap has announced a global deal with Sony Ericsson to pre-load ‘Games by PopCap’ onto its Xperia mini and Xperia mini pro models. Puzzle game Chuzzle will be embedded in its entirety, while other popular games such as Plants vs. Zombies and Peggle will be included as …
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