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Shares down on weak sales, with chief exec warning of continued difficult trading conditions

Gartner says industry has reached landmark figures; predicts two billion in 2014

Richard Jones, architect of Sainsbury's non-food strategy, is set to head to rival supermarket

PC Retail sits down RET UK and finds out what its plans are for the next 12 months

Distributor snaps up Billion networking range

RET made its name with refurbished laptops and PCs, but with its new Power Squared line of batteries it looks set to add a significant new string to its bow. Rob Power takes a closer look?

PC Retail takes a look back at Rome?s Retail Vision trade event

Compares Open Source to Communism saying like the latter, the former is destined to fail

Strong sales last year see like-for-like figures fall

Vendor says it will not impose a revenue threshold to relief of partners

Says manufacturers must wake up to modern world instead of wanting return to 1950s

Retailer set to unveil expansion plans including numbers and locations in September