Retailers have always worked on a sliding schedule: release a product, wait a few months, check the sales data to measure performance and adjust prices accordingly. In the age before computers and eCommerce, this was a comparatively leisurely timetable. Now, retailers that fail to adapt in...
It can be difficult to know if you are a victim of transaction laundering without having a clear understanding of the threat itself and its significant impact on eCommerce. Transaction laundering is a complicated problem and opens the door to a multitude of criminal activity. In...
It looks as though the tech industry has gained a win in the ongoing battle over access to consumer data transmitted via smartphones and digital devices, with President Barack Obama's administration announcing it will not seek new laws granting government access to this encrypted information.
A new report from Forrester Research, “U.S. Mobile Phone And Tablet Commerce Forecast, 2015 to 2020,” predicted mobile commerce transactions will exceed $115 billion in 2015 and skyrocket to $142 billion next year. “We project that mobile phones will generate 15 percent of eCommerce sales...
Operating an artisanal retail business: as easy as riding a unicycle backwards and blindfolded atop the edge of a razor blade. That’s the challenge of scaling custom-made merchandise in a way that creates magic for consumers and profits for retailers. Custom furniture startup Joybird Co-founders...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Giving money away is very easy, almost anyone can do it. However, unless one has a neverending supply of funds, giving money away is not something any human or company can afford to do for very long. And while this seems...
One man, two very big hats. As the social media and payments worlds (and much of the rest of the globe) know by now, Jack Dorsey has been appointed the permanent chief executive of Twitter. The move leaves Square, the other company Dorsey runs as...
Everyone has a friend or family member who can turn even the simplest restaurant order into a Herculean ordeal. The person who goes to McDonald’s and orders a Big Mac, only to ask for substitutions for a full half of the components, the cousin who...
“There’s got to be a better way” is the age-old consumer conundrum when there’s too much friction in getting a task done. It’s this same conundrum that often drives innovation and new products into market. “There is a better way,” claims the crew at Walletron....