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The Guardian's ongoing site redesign continues this week with the launch of an all new sports section, complete with embedded video and enhanced photography.

Leon Bailey Green gives fashion retailers five tips to think about for increasing revenue and sales.

MySpace has teamed up with three of the four major record labels, Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal, to make their catalogues available via MySpace Music.

Amazon this week introduced a new service in the US that lets customers buy products from the site by text message.

With the new system, dubbed 'TextBuyIt', mobile users can text a product name, search term or ISBN number to Amazon, and will get the top two results from the search sent back to them.

German firm Siemens has the best corporate website, while eight of the top ten websites are those of European firms, according to a study of 75 top company sites.

The FT Bowen Craggs Index looked at the effectiveness of corporate websites, and finds that more of these firms are now taking their web presence more seriously.

The BBC has followed up the launch of its new homepage last month with a redesign of the news and sport sections of the website.

Yahoo has today launched Shine, a new site which is taking aim at women between 24 and 54.

LinkedIn has launched another new feature, adding profiles of 160,000 companies to the professional networking site.

Leon Bailey and Jonathan Hirshler look at how five of the UK’s most popular campaign groups can enhance their online visibility and presence. 

ITV's online catch up TV offering will be revamped in an attempt to compete more effectively with the BBC's iPlayer.

Though ITV launched the service months earlier than the iPlayer, it has quickly been overhauled by the BBC's offering. Around 11m videos were viewed via the iPlayer in January, compared with just 2m for ITV.com