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333In 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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1.1KInstagram 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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4.0KTicketing (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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2.7KWalmart 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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3.2KWhat 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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3.1KWorldpay: ‘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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1.7KWithout 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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3.2KSquare 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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3.1KBuilding 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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3.3KGoogle 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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3.4KHow ‘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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2.0KMobility 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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2.6KCloudCraze 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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3.9KZelle 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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10.1K2018: 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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2.3KAirbnb 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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6.1KFitbit’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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6.2KIn-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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6.2KMobile 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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3.9KPost-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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4.3KPayPal 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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2.9KSamsung’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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2.7KALDI, 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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7.6KBanking 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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5.6KPayPal 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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4.2KWhat 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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6.2KFacebook 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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3.9KFacebook 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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5.1KPayPal’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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3.9KShopify 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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3.4KFirst 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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6.1KBraintree, 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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7.7KConsumers 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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9.2KVisa 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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4.8KBirkenstock 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...
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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...
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5.1KFacebook’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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2.1KToday 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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5.2KVisa 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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2.4KXiaomi 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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9.8KWhat’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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6.6KWhat 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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3.4KFlywire 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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3.5KVerifone 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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3.1KMonese 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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3.9KWalmart 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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2.6KCarrier 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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3.8KCurb 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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7.1KApple 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...
