Monthly Archives: July 2011

29Jul2011

Meet our fab work experience intern!

Meet our fabulous work experience intern, 17 year old Emily Hargreaves. She’s the one in the passenger seat. For now! Emily has had an action packed week here at Ve Interactive London (and some action packed evenings out and about … Continue reading →

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28Jul2011

Digital dependency

Are you emotionally dependent on technology? Have you turned yourself into a slave to your digital devices and is it making you feel discombobulated? Do you sleep with your iPad? Is your Twitter feed more like an intravenous feed? Do … Continue reading →

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27Jul2011

Making Ideas Happen – part 2

“Sometimes a little encouragement can be found right under your nose. Like here, in the book US entrepreneur and author, Scott Belsky autographed for me. I was so busy chatting to him about New York where he is based now … Continue reading →

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26Jul2011

Ve Interactive talks CSR

There has been an interesting article in today’s Guardian concerning the disconnect between charities and businesses wanting to do Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) partnerships, and to do with the amount of effort involved in making such partnerships effective for both … Continue reading →

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25Jul2011

Shopping will become a social sport

Wow that was some weekend to take in! Norway then Amy Winehouse. Utterly tragic. Poor kids. But taking a deep breath and moving on. Today’s a new week. We’ve got four more new recruits and an adorable new work-experience intern, … Continue reading →

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22Jul2011

Making Ideas Happen

Ve Interactive London went to The Hospital today! No not the emergency room, luckily the rather plush members club in Covent Garden where (even luckier), Like Minds were holding their inaugural Business Book Club breakfast, and hosting the US author of … Continue reading →

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21Jul2011

The football connections to Ve Interactive

Do you remember the singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram? Or the swarthy actor Ramon Tikaram? Well we’ve got their cousin, Mark Tikaram as Director of Finance and Corporate Affairs at Ve Interactive UK. He’s really good with spread sheets and numbers, which is … Continue reading →

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20Jul2011

H1 UK Online sales beat their forecast

In spite of industry predictions for a tough year for retail, internet retail sales jumped by 19 percent in the first six months of 2011, one percent higher than the forecast at the beginning of the year, according to IMRG … Continue reading →

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19Jul2011

Retailers focus investment on ecommerce & mcommerce

Investment into ecommerce and mcommerce platforms is appearing to be a priority for UK retailers. The latest IT in Retail Report by Martec-International, shows the UK’s Top 100 retailers’ IT investment has grown from 17 percent to 23 percent, over-taking … Continue reading →

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18Jul2011

One size doesn’t fit all

  There’s a call for clothing sizing standardization to be addressed online. Did you know that £25 a year is wasted by the average online consumer on postage fees associated with clothing returns. Across the UK this adds up to … Continue reading →

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