Dutch consumers—and tourists visiting the Netherlands—can now pay with PayPal when they are out on the go a seized by a sudden desire to stop for pancakes. PayPal has partnered with Rabobank Bank-backed MyOrder to allow PayPal users to preorder and purchase items prior...
Big data is only useful data when there is a business vision to ground it. Sears General Manager of “Big Data” Ankur Gupta, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to discuss how data-driven retailers are using new tools and technologies to make omnichannel real...
What can all SMBs learn about omnicommerce from a specialty coffee roaster in New Hampshire? The need to embrace omnichannel tools and techniques to maintain the same kind of personal relationship they have in their physical stores across all of the channels their customers want...
It’s not who you think. Of the 13M internet users in South Africa, the majority go online via their mobile devices. PYMNTS got the scoop from MasterCard’s Head of Emerging Payments for the Middle East and Africa, Aaron Oliver, to understand what makes the South...
While omnichannel remains an important focus of most retailers, most merchants say they lack the capabilities to support it. Yet most have plans to implement mPOS by 2016. Why? Because they view it as an enabler to the biggest merchant initiative of this decade: omnichannel....
It looks like digital commerce giant Amazon is ready to step into the ring against Square—the business that launched 1,000 mPos terminals. The eRetailer is reportedly preparing to launch its own mobile credit card reading hardware, according to internal Staples documents obtained by 9to5Mac. That launch...
Online baby and maternal products company BebeStore announced last week that it had completed an agreement to acquire Baby – its former rival. While financial terms of the cash transaction were not disclosed, the New York Times reported that the deal is believed to be...
Visa Checkout launched last week as part of Visa’s efforts to be the biggest digital payments player on the planet just like it is in the physical world. Can it solve the massive chicken and egg problem that has stalled everyone else? Maybe, says MPD...
According to a recent study by the UK Payments Council, a new UK payments service has caused the nation to become the leader in mobile payments around the world. P2P Paym service, launched in April of this year, is believed to be the cause of...
