Mobile Commerce

Mobile Commerce
LevelUp’s Latest Online Move
September 24, 2014

E-Commerce platform WooCommerce has added LevelUp as a mobile payment option to cut merchants’ payment processing costs, the companies said in a news release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

B2B Payments
Walmart Expands Its India B2B eCommerce Presence
September 24, 2014

Walmart’s ambitions to be a viable B2B supplier in India continue to grow, as two more of the megaretailer’s Best Price Modern Wholesale stores are set to add eCommerce-service support, in Guntur and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. The stores reportedly will begin supporting eCommerce sales...

Mobile Commerce
This Holiday, U.S. Retailers Focused On Marketing, Not Infrastructure
September 24, 2014

Online retailers are worrying less about infrastructure and more about marketing and customer service for the 2014 holiday season, according to a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. ecommerce professionals by eBay Enterprise. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Merchant Innovation
Wayfair IPO: More Than $2 Billion Valuation
September 23, 2014

Online home furnishings retailer, Wayfair Inc., has set its value at more than $2 billion in documents filed in advance of its initial public offering of stock. Wayfair is projecting  an initial share price of $25 to $28 and  82,756,943 shares outstanding after the IPO. Get the...

Merchant Innovation
Pay By Phone To Park Now In Minneapolis
September 23, 2014

Perhaps it is the snobbery that associates sophistication with living on one of the two coasts, but when most people think about cities that are being innovative when it comes to mobile payments, Minneapolis probably isn’ their first thought.  New York, San Francisco or London...

Apple Pay
Apple Breaks Record On iPhone Sales First Weekend
September 23, 2014

Say what you will about Apple, but it sure knows how to sell phones. The first weekend for sales of its new iPhones—the 6 and the 6 Plus—moved some 10 million of the larger-screened devices, which did not come close to keeping up with demand....

B2B Payments
China’s Bustling Cross-Border eCommerce Market
September 23, 2014

With Alibaba last week having gone through the largest initial public offering in U.S. history, expect continued growth in international eCommerce trade coming out of China. Alibaba already is saying it wants to create more online sales between China and other Asian businesses and consumers,...

Apple iPhone 6s’ Mobile Commerce Push
September 22, 2014

Much discussion has been made about the ability of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to support contactless payments at Some 200,000 participating stores. But perhaps an even bigger development is how the phones could produce millions of safer online transactions. Get the...

Mobile
Is Apple Pay Prepping A SIM Card For Next Year?
September 22, 2014

Is a vague comment from the CEO of SoftCard (formerly ISIS, the AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile mobile payment effort) that his group is “actively working with Apple” to be permitted onto the iPhone in 2015 “using integrated secure SIM-based hardware” an indication of a future...