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Can Better Data Stop The “Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral”
November 20, 2014

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40 Percent Of U.S. Online Shoppers Say They Want To Use Mobile Payment
November 20, 2014

A new survey has 40 percent of U.S. online shoppers saying that they like the idea of mobile payments and prefer that idea to carrying around a wallet. How much that interest in using mobile payments will translate to shoppers actually using mobile payments is...

Mobile Commerce
Holiday Online Spending To Jump 16% To $61B
November 20, 2014

Americans will spend $61 billion on retail ecommerce for the holidays this year, up 16 percent from the same period in 2013, Chain Store Age reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

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Alibaba’s Amazon Killer?
November 20, 2014

As if Amazon and eBay needed more reasons to worry about Alibaba—which might also be getting frighteningly tight with Apple—founder Jack Ma said Thursday (Nov. 20) that Alibaba is creating an international version of Taobao, it’s E-Commerce marketplace, to serve shoppers in several languages, including...

Oberthur, Mobeewave Turning NFC Secure
November 20, 2014

Given the fresh popularity boost that Apple Pay has given NFC, concerns about the transmission’s use outside of Apple Pay has raised security concerns. Two companies,  Oberthur Technologies and Mobeewave, are leveraging those fears and have rolled out a product designed to turn any NFC...

SEQR Partners With The Secure Gateway To Grow Mobile Payments
November 20, 2014

Provider of the mobile payment solution SEQR, Seamless announced that it has partnered with Newtek Business Services’ majority-owned subsidiary, The Secure Gateway, according to a company release.

Connecting The Dots Between Payments And Retail Advertising
November 20, 2014

Retailers. Brands. Consumers. Each stakeholder, with its own objectives and interests, plays a key role in the rapidly transforming, increasingly tech-savvy retail industry. And at the intersection of all three sits Jingit, the first real-time events-based payments and engagement platform, says Jingit’s CEO Kate Bolseth....

What An NFC-Enabled iPad Could Mean For mPOS
November 19, 2014

Will the new Apple iPad ring the register for merchants? Scott Holt, VP of Marketing and Solutions for ROAM and MPD CEO Karen Webster chatted about this, as well as the other developments that could help – or hinder – the existing plans of mPOS...

How LevelUp Is Powering The “Groupon” Merchant
November 19, 2014

In a perfect world for merchants, building a loyal customer base would be as easy as luring them in with a great deal and then banking on the fact that they’ll just stick around after they’ve had a chance to experience the product or service....