Mobile Commerce

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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...

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Monese Adds Direct Debit Capability To Its Mobile App

Monese, a fintech startup based in London that has a mobile banking app, added a new feature to its offering that is aimed...

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Walmart Pay Now Offers Faster Access To Walmart Credit Cards

Walmart Pay has been out in wide release for a little over a year — and in that time, it has made...

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Carrier Billing Is Coming To Amazon Japan

According to news out this morning, DOCOMO Digital will enable NTT DOCOMO’s carrier billing for Amazon in Japan. NTT DOCOMO is both...

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Curb And Via Team Up To Challenge Uber

Imagine an Uber with professional drivers, easily identifiable cars and no surge pricing. Oh, wait – that’s a taxi company. Now, a...

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Apple iOS 11 Will Support P2P Payments In iMessage

Apple announced Monday (June 5) during its World Developers Conference being held this week that its new iOS 11 will support the...

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Video eCommerce Platform Yeay Raises $4.9M Seed Funding

When it comes to attention spans and absorbing information, visuals can sometimes be the key differentiator between what does and does not...

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TouchBistro Raises CDN $16.3M In Funding To Expand Its Features

TouchBistro, the payment technology company, announced Thursday (June 1) it raised CDN $16.3 million in Series C funding. In a press release,...

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Warby Of X: Warby’s Prescription Check App

Removing the middleman in order to provide tailored and streamlined products or services seems to have become the norm over the last few...

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Messaging App Kik Rolls Out Ethereum-Based Cryptocurrency

Kik, the messaging app, is creating its own cryptocurrency in an effort to boost user numbers and get brands to engage more...

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WeChat Keeps Search Inside Its Walled Garden

WeChat, the Chinese internet company, rolled out a new search feature late last week that gives preference to things that can be...

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Turning Digital Meeting Places Into Digital Marketplaces Worldwide

While shopping online is not much of an event for anyone anyplace on Earth at this point, Hyperwallet Managing Director for Asia-Pacific,...

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Mastercard, UnionPay, Visa Launch Standardized QR Code For E-Payments In Thailand

Mastercard, UnionPay International and Visa have introduced a Standardized Quick Response (QR) Code for payments, accelerating Thailand’s transition to a cashless society. According...

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Samsung’s Galaxy 7 Generates More Mobile Browsing Than Other Devices

Samsung Electronics, the South Korean consumer electronics company, may be getting a lot of buzz with the launch of the Galaxy S8 line...

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Starbucks Sees Uptick In Q2 Mobile Orders, Payments

Starbucks reported second quarter results that showed a big uptick in mobile ordering and an increase in its rewards program. For Starbucks’...

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Many Waze To Satisfy A Dunkin’ Crave

No direction home, sang Bob Dylan, who never had Waze, and never had a Dunkin’ on the Waze way, we’d guess. Tongue-in-cheek aside, Waze...

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Vantiv Finds Millennial And Boomer Expectations Meet On Mobile

Living up to consumer expectations is difficult work these days for many reasons, not the least of which is that consumers are...

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Intertrust, Google Partner For IP Litigation Program

Startup companies are formed every day, and with that there comes concerns over intellectual property. To help protect startups, Intertrust Technologies Corporation...

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eBay Results Meet the Street But Guidance Disappoints

eBay’s efforts to reinvent itself amid a shifting eCommerce landscape that continues to be trod upon, and heavily, by Amazon, showed up...

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LevelUp On Making Mobile Order Ahead Pay

The benefits of mobile order ahead are well documented, says Emma Beckerle, director of Client Services at LevelUp, as consumer satisfaction and...

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Alipay GM On Building Bridges To The Chinese Consumer

“We’re here to be disruptive. Who wants to write checks?” When Alipay North America’s president, Souheil Badran, took the stage at Innovation...

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Credit Suisse Says PayPal Beating Plastic Online

According to Credit Suisse, PayPal shows it is at no risk of handing over marketshare to credit and debit cards any time...

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Amazon Opens Alexa Up To Other Hardware Developers

Amazon’s suite of Echo products could end up at other hardware companies, with the eCommerce giant announcing it’s making its technology available to...

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Android Pay Expands To Mobile Banking Apps

Android Pay announced new partnerships with a handful of banks from around the globe, including Bank of America, USAA, Bank of New...

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Google Home To Support Multiple Users, Ushers In Increased Functionality

Google Home is reportedly gearing up to support multiple users. According to a report, while multiple users aren’t supported on Google Home...

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India’s Flipkart Raises $1.4B From Three Major Players

Flipkart, India’s leading eCommerce marketplace, has raised $1.4 billion from Tencent Holdings, Microsoft and eBay. According to Fortune, this latest round — Flipkart’s biggest...