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Mobile Commerce
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1.3KTikTok Video Platform Launches In-App Shopping Feature
Video platform TikTok has launched an in-app feature that allows users to shop for products related to a sponsored Hashtag Challenge. The...
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4.8KWhy Retailers Need Better Payments To Boost Mobile App Appeal
The best is yet to come. As long as checkout and payments are part of the plan. In one sense, that describes...
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4.2KTinder Pulls A Spotify And Drops Google App Store Signups
Tinder removed Google Play Store integration within its Android app to avoid Google’s service charge, which can be as high as 30%. ...
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4.0KCan A Line Of Code Fix Customer Onboarding?
Few activities in the digital economy are as filled with friction, and as frustrating and risky for merchants, banks and other businesses,...
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2.5KIndia’s MobiKwik Mobile Wallet To Go Global
Mobile wallet app MobiKwik announced that it is partnering with Singapore-based DT One to expand into international markets. The partnership will enable...
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4.0KHow Consumers Shop Using Smartphones For Food Vs Retail Goods
Despite efforts by major supermarket chains as well as third-party delivery services, online grocery shopping still hasn’t seen mass adoption in the...
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6.7KWallets Versus Stored Credentials: How Consumers Shop And Pay With Smartphones
Mobile commerce might just be the key to saving brick-and-mortar stores. Consumers use their smartphones to shop for everything, everywhere – including...
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6.5KStudy Reveals Consumers’ Mobile Shopping Behaviors
Consumer dependence on smartphones is often derided as a distraction, but they have also become a vital mobile shopping and buying tool...
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5.4KShopping While Driving Gains Traction
Voice-activated commerce has been the key to connecting commuters. These in-car shoppers spent $230 billion last year and with new retail initiatives...
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7.7KWhite House And FCC Prioritize 5G Spend On Rural Broadband
The White House and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have announced they will prioritize 5G to make sure America is at the...
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9.3KVenmo Debuts Limited Edition Rainbow Card
Today Venmo will be rolling out its latest card offering for consumers. Joining the lineup of the six brightly colored, Mastercard-branded debit...
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6.5KFlorida Prisons Delete $11M Worth Of Inmate Music Purchases
Following a switch in contractors that reportedly caused prisoners to lose access to music that they purchased, an inmate in a Florida...
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8.7KTomTom Sells Telematics Unit In Ongoing Push With Google Maps
TomTom, a Dutch navigation and mapping company, has sold its telematics unit to Bridgestone Europe for €910 million ($1,033 billion). Telematics is...
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9.0KCARDFREE Launches Mobile Order-Ahead Service API
CARDFREE, a mobile payment app, has made its order-ahead interface available to merchants to develop through the CARDFREE mobile development kit, according to a...
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16.6KWhat Black Friday Tells Us About The Future Of Retail
The verdict is in. Black Friday was a boon for online retail. Nostalgia still drove consumers to physical stores to snag and...
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12.1KWill Snapchat Get Snapped Up Or Snap Back?
Snapchat, according to recent reports, is having cash flow troubles. The app that got famous for its disappearing messages is looking like it...
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14.5KThe Coming Consolidation Of Marketplaces
The tremendous push toward marketplaces and commerce platforms over the last several years really comes down to capturing a single moment in...
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14.1KBypass CEO: Dining’s Big Digital Disruption
Grubhub’s announcement last week, that it will acquire mobile ordering and payments platform LevelUp, is the most recent reminder that software and technology is eating the...
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12.5KHow Winnie Wants To Build The Portal Parents Need
Winnie – like so many tech innovations – started out as an attempt by its two co-founders to solve their own problems....
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12.5KCan Social Media Make Ordering Takeout Less Frustrating?
Food ordering and delivery have come a long way since reliance on the Yellow Pages and those paper menus stuck into door...
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12.1KIn Praise Of The Selfie And The Commerce It Drives
National Selfie Day has passed into the history books once again. For those us who need a few days to let go...
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11.3KInstagram Expands Shopping To Instagram Stories
Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing social network, announced Tuesday (June 12) that it is expanding shopping beyond Feed to Instagram Stories. In a press...
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14.9KTicketing (Finally) Comes To Google Pay
Since rebranding its various mobile and digital payments efforts under the moniker Google Pay earlier this year, Google has been aggressively introducing new functionality to...
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12.6KWalmart Tests New Mobile Checkout Technology
Walmart announced on Thursday (April 19) that it is testing Check Out With Me, a new service that will speed up checkout...
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12.6KWhat One Coffee Chain Learned After Extensively Testing Order-Ahead
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is new to mobile order-ahead – but not to the market. The chain, now with 1,200...
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12.7KWorldpay: ‘Future-Proofing’ The POS
The next big thing is not often easy to spot. Sometimes, the thing that everyone sees coming fails to actually show up....
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10.7KWithout Wow Factor, Smartphone Sales Expected To Be Flat In 2018
Smartphone growth last year was just 2.7 percent — and while market research firm Garner is projecting that sales of smartphones will...
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12.1KSquare Debuts Instant Deposit In UK
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and Chief Executive of Square announced news on Wednesday (March 21) of the launch of a new Instant...
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12.2KBuilding Bridges For Chinese Consumers To U.S. Commerce
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, 2.97 million Chinese nationals visited the U.S. in 2016 (the last year for which data is available), spending...
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12.6KGoogle Launches Shopping Actions With Target And Walmart
Alphabet’s Google has found a new way to make money off of its search engine, getting a cut of product sales from...
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12.9KHow ‘Mobile-Only’ Audiences Stack Up To ‘Multi-Platform’ Audiences
While consumers are still using multiple platforms — such as desktop and mobile — “mobile-only” users are on the rise. In fact,...
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10.8KMobility Spending Forecast To Hit $1.7 Trillion In 2021
Spending on mobility solutions is expected to increase 3.2 percent this year, with global spending hitting $1.6 trillion, driven by mobility-related hardware,...
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11.7KCloudCraze Being Sold To Salesforce For Undisclosed Sum
CloudCraze, the enterprise eCommerce startup, announced Tuesday (March 13) that it is being acquired by Salesforce, the customer relationship management software company....
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13.1KZelle Reports New Account Openings Of 100K A Day
Zelle, the mobile payment service of U.S. Bank, says that close to 100,000 customers sign up for the payment app on average...
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23.5K2018: The Year Of The Mobile Wallet Reset
It’s time to talk more about what we’re really trying to accomplish for consumers — and for our businesses — and less about the...
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10.8KAirbnb Names Amex’s Chenault To Board
As part of its plan to become a so-called 21st-century company, Airbnb announced Thursday (Jan. 25) in a blog post that it is...
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15.2KFitbit’s Future In Commerce
The Fitbit Ionic, released last fall, was a departure from the Fitbit brand the world had known thus far. The original Fitbit was...
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15.2KIn-App Spending Up 12.3 Percent On Christmas Day
Spending on in-app purchases jumped 12.3 percent on Monday (Dec. 25), with consumers around the globe spending money on in-app purchases, subscriptions...
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16.3KMobile Payments 2.0: Building Better Retail Experiences
Payments has by and large been a growth business for the last half decade or so, and that fact has been mappable...
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13.1KPost-ICO, Texcent Eyes Financial Access For Unbanked
Bitcoin may be the headline grabber of cryptocurrencies. The price soars and then it dives. Billionaires and regulators and even casual observers of...
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12.9KPayPal Launches Virtual NYC Shopping Platform
PayPal, the digital payments company, announced Thursday (Nov. 30) that on Sunday, Dec. 3 it will launch another live, interactive shopping experience,...
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11.4KSamsung’s Next Move Could Be Bendable Galaxy
Samsung may have beat Apple in adding “X” into the name of its smartphone, but that doesn’t mean the Korean technology company...
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11.4KALDI, Venmo Team On Thanksgiving Campaign
ALDI, the grocery retailer, and Venmo, the peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payment app company, announced news on Monday (Nov. 6) of a new...
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16.7KBanking On Social Banking
Ah, those Millennials. Changing the face of payments. How can banks lure them to put thumbs to device and send money –...
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14.9KPayPal Launches Marketplaces And Marketing Solutions
While retail has never been an easy business, the shift from analog to digital retail over the last decade or so has...
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12.7KWhat Tech Will Make Irrelevant For The Class of 2035
Consider, for a moment, the Class of 2035. What’s wrong with these kids of the future? Nothing, actually. Their future is just showing up all...
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16.0KFacebook Messenger, PayPal Partner On P2P
On Friday (Oct. 20), PayPal and Facebook announced news that they are expanding their partnership. Facebook users will now be able to...
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12.6KFacebook Tests APIs For In-App Purchases
Facebook is making changes to the way third parties can monetize their use of the platform, TechCrunch reported. The company is rolling...
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13.9KPayPal’s Market Cap Blasts Past Amex
It’s been a strong year for PayPal, which has seen its shares up 75 percent since the beginning of the year. And,...
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12.5KShopify Defends Citron Research Drubbing
Shopify, the Canada based eCommerce software provider, is out defending its business after short-seller Citron Research slammed the company, sending shares down...
