Mobile Commerce

Walmart 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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What 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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Worldpay: ‘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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Without 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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Square 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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Building 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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Google 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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How ‘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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Mobility 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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CloudCraze 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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Zelle 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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2018: 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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Airbnb 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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Fitbit’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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In-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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Mobile 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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Post-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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PayPal 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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Samsung’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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ALDI, 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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Banking 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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PayPal 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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What 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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Facebook 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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Facebook 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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PayPal’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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Shopify 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...

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First Data And CareCloud Launch Breeze To Help Patients Everywhere

CareCloud and First Data are working jointly to make the experience of medical professionals and medical patients that much smoother and more engaging with...

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Braintree, Eventbrite Make Concerts And Commerce Contextual

Commerce interrupted is a terrible thing. Consumers miss out and merchants miss a sale. The familiar friction points – typing in 16-digit...

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Braintree Powers Cashless Payments For Eventbrite’s Events, Contextually And In Person

In contextual commerce, the play’s the thing. Or the concert. Or the game, for that matter. In an announcement via blog post...

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Consumers Love The Sharing Economy, But Are Ambivalent About eCommerce

Most Americans think ride-sharing — à la services like Lyft and Uber — has been good for the U.S. Online shopping, on...

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Visa Payments, (Truly) Mobile With Fitbit’s Ionic Smartwatch

Fitbit is debuting its Ionic watch – enabled for Visa payments. And, as noted Monday by the two companies, and as the...

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Birkenstock USA CEO Tells Shop Owners Not To Sell Its Products On Amazon

Birkenstock USA Chief Executive Officer David Kahan has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to having his company’s products...

Amazon Interjects Social Through Amazon Spark

Amazon recently announced the launch of Amazon Spark, a service designed to improve customers’ ability to find new products. According to a...

Facebook is planning to amp up its ad platform with "shoppable" video ads to contest market share with Youtube, a key competitor.

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Facebook’s New Revenue Strategy: Messenger Ads

Even an infinite scroll only generates a finite number of ad clicks. Facebook has just about maximized the amount of money it...

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Today in Data: Uber in Danger Zone?

2017 has not been the best of the best for ride-hailing company Uber. From its CEO stepping down to employees filing and...

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Visa Rolls Out Free Person-to-Person Digital Payments In Kenya

Visa, the credit card company, is enabling customers of Kenya Visa-affiliated banks to send online payments without paying transactions fees. According to...

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Xiaomi Shipped 23.16M Smartphones In Second Quarter

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone company, has reportedly started providing mobile phone shipments for Q2 2017 after halting the practice last year. According...

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What’s Next For European eCommerce?

According to the latest findings of the European Ecommerce Report 2017, it is a good time to be selling online in Europe — especially...

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What Should Be Inside Your Mobile Wallet (Strategy)

Whereas mostly a concept only really understood by early adopter and tech enthusiasts a few years ago, these days mobile wallets have...

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Flywire Partners With PayPal For Cross-Border Payments

As eCommerce continues its growth, the demand for providing solid options for cross-border payments also rises. Without these payments, it’s likely we would see...

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Verifone Launches New Portable Mobile Point-Of-Sale Products

Verifone, a world leader in payments and commerce solutions, has launched its newest portable and mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) products to utilize its...