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7.2KLondon Deliveroo Drivers Upset Over New Pricing Model
London-based drivers for Deliveroo, the on-demand restaurant food delivery startup, are up in arms over a new pricing model the company is...
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4.7KTaxi Lender Shares Glum Capital Outlook
Chalk up another potential casualty to Uber’s meteoric rise to dominance of the ridesharing industry, as an almost $2 billion lender that...
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3.1KApp Store Will Hit 5 Million Apps By 2020
Developers can’t seem to stop developing apps. Mobile apps available for purchase or download through Apple’s App Store are expected to double...
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3.6KDigital Ordering Boosting Papa John’s Sales
Papa John’s is going all in on its “strong digital platform,” according to Business Insider. In the first quarter of this year,...
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5.6KeBay Makes It Even Easier To Access Its Mobile App
Mobile apps are supposed to be convenient, but eBay wants to make them even easier to use, announcing earlier this week new updates...
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5.7KAT&T Teams With Startup To Hand Deliver Your Next Phone
AT&T plans to expand its hand-delivery service of its phones to six additional cities beginning on Tuesday (Aug. 9) through a partnership...
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BlueSnap Integrates With Visa Checkout
Global payments tech firm BlueSnap said Monday (Aug. 8) that Visa Checkout is available through the enterprise’s Powered Buy Platform. That integration,...
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4.2KPokémon GO Made $200 Million In First Month
Pokémon GO, the hot new game that allows users to “catch” Pokémon on the streets through a virtual reality app, has made...
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4.0KGrab Raises $2.3 Billion Valuation To Compete With Uber In Southeast Asia
Grab, the Singapore-based ridesharing service that is Uber’s largest competitor in Southeast Asia, is negotiating to raise a new round of founding...
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4.7KThe Three-Step Plan To Optimizing Mobile Revenue
There’s no question that mobile has established itself as a default channel as far as the average consumer is concerned, and the...
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4.1KShoppable Secures $3.5M In Series A
It’s not cheap work ensuring that wherever customers want to checkout, their favorite merchants are ready to meet them there. That’s been...
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1.6KMikMak, The ‘Mini-Mercial’ Maker, Makes Millions
ECommerce is here to stay, but the way consumers find their way to the products they want to buy doesn’t have to...
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6.0KGoGoGrandparent Lets Your Grandparents Order Up An Uber
As popular as online on-demand ordering apps and services have become, there’s still about 75 million Americans who still don’t possess a...
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4.3KPokémon GO Learns Its First Lesson In Consumer Engagement
Within 24 hours of its release, Pokémon GO had stolen the hearts and minds of millions of players and countless more observers who...
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6.0KBaskin-Robbins Puts 31 Flavors On A New Mobile App
So far, ice cream is one of those things that doesn’t translate well across the digital divide of modern commerce. Even with...
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3.4KUber Southeast Asia Services Focus Pays Off
For a company the size of Uber, it can be tough to know when it’s time to keep the foot on the...
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3.5KSprig Stops Food Delivery To Chicago, Begins Laying Off Staff
Sprig, the mobile app that allows customers to find and order “delicious meals” made with “honest ingredients” that can be delivered to...
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Ready To Shop By Emoji?
Shopping with the help of a bot is old news at this point. Everybody has a bot. But Facebook Messenger bot Kip...
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8.9KScooter Rentals Just Got A Lot More Secure
Over the last few years, there’s been a marked rise of tourist-friendly bicycles and Segways that make getting around foreign cities as...
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4.8KSmartphones Edge Computers As Top Web-Shopping Traffic Source
While a recent study reveals smartphones may have accounted for more eCommerce traffic than computers in Q1 2016, as reported by Bloomberg,...
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6.5KThe ‘Why’ And The ‘Wow’ Of Pay With Venmo
If one wanted a quick, three-word explanation for why social commerce or social media-based contextual commerce is actually much, much harder to...
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3.8KWhat Exactly Do Customers Search For On Their Mobile Phones?
We all know that consumers are using their mobile phones to shop and search for items more than ever before (and it’s...
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Pokémon GO Sets Mobile Download Records
The amount of press coverage Pokémon GO has attracted over the last few weeks has been groundbreaking in and of itself. However, Apple...
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2.8KUber Rival Plans Mobile Wallet Launch
There’s a reason Uber has managed to define the ridesharing market, and it’s not without cause that its ever-evolving business model has...
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5.1KNew York City Cabs To Allow Carsharing Via Apps
Carpooling may not be a favorite among commuters who don’t want to share a cab with a complete stranger, but it is...
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6.6KLocation-Based Advertising And The Consumer: What Works, What Doesn’t
So, what’s this location-based advertising thing, and why is it (going to be) so important for the future of retail and mobile transactions?...
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3.7KCVS Gives Beacons Another Shot With Google Nearby
Beacons are treading dangerously close to the realm of vaporware that’s often talked about in revolutionary terms, despite never materializing in the...
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7.5KUber’s Adoption Curve Defies Even Moore’s Law
Anyone questioning the business model of Uber may need a new hobby, granted the service continues to gain in popularity, as it seems...
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6.3KIs Paying With Cash More ‘Painful?’
How did you pay for your coffee this morning? If you’re among the group of people who prefer paying in cash over...
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8.9KComing Soon To Pokémon GO — Retail Partnerships
Pokémon GO — you might love it, you might hate it, but you’ve most certainly heard of it by now. Retailers had to...
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4.6KThe Pokémon GO-Retail Partnership Plot Thickens
Years from now, parents will struggle to describe to their kids what life was like before Pokémon GO was released and countless millennials were...
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3.9KValve Clamping Down On Sites That Potentially Let Children Gamble
Valve, the entertainment software and technology company that specializes in online and mobile gaming, is finally getting tough with the “gambling ecosystem”...
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6.4KMasterpass Gets Connected — And Contextual
Mastercard CIO Ed McLaughlin was often heard describing Mastercard’s vision for commerce as one that would take it anywhere the consumer wanted...
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3.5KNew Coupon Strategies Give Shoppers Convenience Instead Of Control
For most retailers, the name of the game is convenience. It doesn’t matter what they sell or what channel they do it...
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3.7KWashington, D.C. Fire, EMS Mulling Using Uber
911 calls are on the rise in Washington, D.C., prompting officials to mull using Uber cars and drivers to handle some of...
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3.7KUber Is Gaining In Popularity But Yellow Cabs Still Kicking In NYC
Uber is growing in popularity among people looking to save a few dollars, but in New York City, yellow taxis are still...
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5.8KStarbucks’ Mobile Payments Go To China
Starbucks is officially expanding its digital experience to China. The company announced on Tuesday (July 12) that it is making its mobile...
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4.5KeBay Hopes Google’s AMP Can Make Its Mobile Pages Faster
EBay wants to make sure that its mobile pages load as fast as possible, and in order to ensure that it stays...
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8.1KThe Unlikely Retail Applications Of Pokémon GO
For years, retailers have lamented the fact that mobile traffic so rarely translates in equal numbers to in-store traffic. An entire industry...
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6.9KLyft And GM Expand Express Drive To California, Colorado
Aiming to expand the number of drivers who have been shut out because they don’t own a suitable car, Lyft and strategic partner...
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4.8KTrulioo Adds Middle East, North Africa To GlobalGateway
Global identity verification company Trulioo announced Tuesday (July 12) that its identify verification product, GlobalGateway, now includes the Middle East and North...
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16.9KThe Coming Clash Of The Commerce Titans
There’s a battle brewing in commerce, Karen Webster says. One that’s driven by the fear of being boxed into the whims of...
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China’s Millennials Are In The Mobile Payments Driver’s Seat
The forecast for China’s mobile payments market is looking bright, with a strong chance of significant millennial influence. Though there are some...
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4.3KIs Lyft Preparing To Sell?
Ridesharing firm Lyft has been getting ready to capitalize on investor desire to delve into transports and has been exploring raising additional funding or...
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5.1KAre Retailers Missing The Mark On In-Store Location Tracking?
Of the many ways the rise of mobile devices has prompted brick-and-mortar retailers to evolve, the translation of in-store visits to analyzable...
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4.9KDoorDash Dashes Into Booze Delivery
DoorDash, the online food delivery app, is adding another component to its delivery service: the ability to bring you alcohol. DoorDash was...
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In-Store Apps Could Make Retail’s Mobile Moment
Even the most omnichannel-savvy brick-and-mortar retailers have several justifiable fears about the rise of mobile in just about every path to purchase....
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7.7KMeet MyKAI: The Bank Account Focused Chatbot
Going to a physical bank branch can often be the same as going to the DMV – long lines, surly customers and...
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4.2KCan Upfront Pricing Disarm Uber’s Biggest Rivals?
It’s an odd testament to Uber’s rise that almost everyone nowadays has at least one surge pricing horror story. Whether it’s to...
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4.3KModiFace Embraces Chatbot Commerce
In a move that should be officially titled “clash of the retail trends,” augmented reality firm ModiFace has integrated its simulation technology...
