Mobile Commerce

What the Payments Industry Can Learn From India
August 26, 2014

India is still a cash centric society with few credit cards and only a third of its population owning a debit product. Yet, Srinivas Nidugondi, Head of Mobile Financial Solution at Mahindra Comviva, says the rest of the world can learn a lot about payments...

Mobile Commerce
Mobile Authentication StartUp Gets $6M Boost
August 25, 2014

Zumigo, which uses location data from mobile devices to secure financial transactions, has raised $6 million in Series B financing, Payment Week reported on Friday (Aug. 22). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Karen Webster
Who’s On Your 2014 Fantasy Payments Team?
August 25, 2014

Even though the official end of Summer isn’t for another few weeks, the impending turn of the calendar pages from August to September sure signals that summer is over  . If that isn’t enough, the signs of Fall are also in great abundance: kids are...

Merchant Innovation
Is Delivery Finally Ready To Deliver?
August 25, 2014

2014 is shaping up to be the year that the internet decided the best thing it could do is make sure that consumers never had to wait for anything again. Delivery-on-demand for just about everything is now available—Amazon and Google are both going after grocery,...

An Inside Look at How Cash Goes Digital in the Middle East and Africa
August 25, 2014

Developing economies such as the Middle East, Asia, and Africa are all poised for massive growth as cash goes digital and consumers embrace mobile. As different as these markets are, they have one common theme: consumers are driving the change. MasterCard’s CEO of ElectraCard Services...

America Unplugged?
August 22, 2014

News flash. The majority of Americans are plugged in most of the time, and Millennials are the least likely to log-off. But curious to know other ins-and-outs of America’s increasingly logged-on population? Check out the PYMNTS Digital Consumption Slideshow. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Merchant Innovation
Merged Channel Strategies Continue To Boost Macy’s Results
August 21, 2014

The retail world is changing and Macy’s is transforming with it according to reporting in Retail Information System News.  The retail giant putting its money where its intentions are, and throwing its $1billion-plus annual CapEx budget to building their infrastructure to fulfill a variety of...

Merchant Innovation
Amazon’s Fire Phone Has Slow Start
August 21, 2014

Amazon’s Fire smartphone appears to be off to a slow start, according to one analyst that tracks activity growth using ad impressions — and the cause may be the fact that the Fire is only available from AT&T, C/Net reported. Get the Full Story Complete...

Company Spotlight
Does Omnicommerce Spell The Death of Big Data?
August 21, 2014

Understanding consumer preferences, expectations and shopping patterns and mapping those to retailer capabilities is all about having access to data and lots of it. Right? Well, maybe not. Maybe, better data, delivered faster is the ticket to omnicommerce success. This month’s Vantiv Omnicommerce Tracker benchmarks...