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Snowed-in Britons Go Online for Fun…and the Tools They Need

Visits for sledges up 4,314%, and snow shovels up 1,442% London – January 7th, 2010 – Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, has seen a massive rise in snow-related traffic, with visits for sledges up a massive 4,314% in just one week. Twenga’s research shows snowbound Britons also using the internet to find the tools to [...]

Top 20 High Tech Christmas Products – Gifts For All the Family

LCD TVs are more popular than ever London – December 17th, 2009. Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, has revealed this year’s top 20 most popular searches for high tech Christmas gifts. LCD TVs are number one, with models such as the SONY KDL-32W5500 topping the list. These all-year bestsellers saw a 27% surge of visitors [...]

Christmas Gifts Online 2009: Classic Toys Hold Their Own Against Video Games

Puzzles up 95% and Lego up 75%: classic toys are the favourite children’s gift from both women and men London – December 7th, 2009 – Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, report a surge of shoppers visiting the classic toys categories, searching for items such as puzzles and Lego on www.twenga.co.uk.  With searches for puzzles up [...]

Christmas shopping online 2009: British Women Overtake Men

77% of British women will use internet to buy, and 87% will use it to compare prices London – November 23rd, 2009. Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, has analysed the online buying behaviour of British men and women. It found that, in just one year, British women have quickly overtaken men in using the internet [...]

Reselling Unwanted Christmas Gifts Online: Pragmatic Brits Lead the Way, But Not Out of Thriftiness

Less than half of UK consumers would keep unwanted gifts, but they give them to charity as often as they resell them online. London – November 16th, 2009 – Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, has asked internet users what they would do with Christmas gifts they don’t want. The results show that only 49% of [...]

Christmas Gift Wish List: No more scarves and ties and no sex please, we’re British!

London – November 10th 2009 – Twenga, the comprehensive shopping search engine, today reveal further results from its Annual Christmas Spending Survey showing that some of the more common gift items are a big no-no for the British population.  Over one third  (36%) admitted that they would not like to receive a scarf (for women) or [...]

Online Shopping: Postal Strike Concerns Unfounded

80% of online retailers that are Royal Mail clients offer alternative delivery methods London – November 5th, 2009 – Twenga, the shopping search engine, has carried out research to predict how the Royal Mail strikes will impact online retailers in the run up to Christmas.  Twenga investigated the delivery options offered by the top 50 online retailers [...]

Christmas Shopping 2009: Will the British be deterred by Swine Flu?

2 out of 3 Brits plan online shopping to reduce the risk of contracting the virus London – November 3, 2009 – Twenga, the comprehensive shopping search engine, today reveal further results from its annual Christmas Spending Survey.  The company asked over 3000 Europeans if their Christmas shopping would be affected by the Swine Flu virus H1N1. [...]

Compare prices on your iPhone: Twenga’s new application gives you direct access to online shops

Successful application downloaded by 50,000 iPhone users is now available in four additional languages London – October 29th 2009 – Twenga the most comprehensive online shopping search engine, today launched an updated version of its iPhone application to help shoppers find the best price available before buying in-store or online. iPhone and iPod touch users can [...]

Cautious Christmas for Brits – European Spending Survey shows Gloomy Outlook

43% of British shoppers intend to cut their Christmas budget this year and only 12% are planning to spend more London, October 26th 2009 – Twenga, the new-generation search engine, today reveals the results of its annual Christmas Spending Survey.  More than 3,000 Internet users across six European countries, including the UK were interviewed. The study [...]