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Mobile Commerce
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2.4KApp Annie: Mobile Companies Valued 6X Higher Than Firms Without Mobile Focus
Go mobile or go back home — especially when it comes to payment and finance. That is one thing that came to...
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2.3KLime Announces eScooter, Bike Subscriptions
To let everyday scooter users and commuters gain the most from their micro-mobility, Lime has announced the rollout of a new subscription...
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2.7KNJ Launches First Mobile App For Lottery Tickets
To give players an easy way to order official state lottery tickets, Jackpocket today announced the public rollout of its lottery app...
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4.5KVisa Invests In LISNR To Boost Mobile Payments Growth
Ultrasonic data firm LISNR is getting a strategic investment from Visa to speed up expansion of its mobile payments, LISNR announced in...
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4.0KStudy: Nearly 60 Pct Of Uber Passengers Never Leave Tips
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NEBR) shows that the majority of Uber riders don’t tip their drivers....
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8.4KShopify Debuts New Features For CBD Merchants
The multi-channel commerce platform Shopify is rolling out new features to help merchants sell hemp and hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products online and...
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6.3KHow To AI: Cognitive Sourcing Meets The Supply Chain
On a perfect day, when everything goes exactly to plan, managing a supply chain is no easy task — particularly when procurement...
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5.4KSpirit Airlines To Roll Out WhatsApp Bookings
Starting next month, customers looking for flights on Spirit Airlines in the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America will be able to...
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5.5KTikTok 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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8.8KWhy 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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7.6KTinder 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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7.1KCan 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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5.1KIndia’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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7.0KHow 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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10.4KWallets 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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10.4KStudy 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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8.5KShopping 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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11.2KWhite 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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12.3KVenmo 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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9.4KFlorida 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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11.5KTomTom 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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11.9KCARDFREE 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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20.5KWhat 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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15.0KWill 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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17.6KThe 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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16.9KBypass 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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15.3KHow 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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15.6KCan 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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14.9KIn 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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14.2KInstagram 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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18.0KTicketing (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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15.4KWalmart 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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15.3KWhat 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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15.5KWorldpay: ‘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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13.3KWithout 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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14.8KSquare 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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14.8KBuilding 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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15.2KGoogle 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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15.6KHow ‘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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13.5KMobility 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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14.4KCloudCraze 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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15.7KZelle 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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26.6K2018: 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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14.4KAirbnb 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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18.0KFitbit’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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17.8KIn-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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19.3KMobile 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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15.9KPost-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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15.5KPayPal 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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14.0KSamsung’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...
