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Mobile Commerce
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20.8KFitbit’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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20.6KIn-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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22.6KMobile 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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18.8KPost-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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18.2KPayPal 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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16.2KSamsung’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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14.1KALDI, 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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19.1KBanking 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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17.3KPayPal 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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14.2KWhat 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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18.6KFacebook 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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14.0KFacebook 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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14.9KPayPal’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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13.1KShopify 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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12.5KFirst 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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15.1KBraintree, 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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15.9KConsumers 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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22.2KVisa 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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12.2KBirkenstock 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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12.1KFacebook’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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8.6KToday 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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12.7KVisa 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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7.3KXiaomi 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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16.1KWhat’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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12.0KWhat 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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6.9KFlywire 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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7.2KVerifone 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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5.4KMonese 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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7.2KWalmart 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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4.0KCarrier 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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6.5KCurb 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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9.0KApple 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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4.9KVideo 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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4.3KTouchBistro 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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2.0KWarby 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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6.5KMessaging 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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5.7KWeChat 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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4.4KTurning 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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7.2KMastercard, 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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1.8KSamsung’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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9.0KStarbucks 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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4.0KMany 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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4.3KVantiv 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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4.1KIntertrust, 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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3.9KeBay 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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5.5KLevelUp 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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9.6KAlipay 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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5.2KCredit 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...
