To give players an easy way to order official state lottery tickets, Jackpocket today announced the public rollout of its lottery app in the Garden State. New Jersey is the first state lottery to authorize lottery courier services formally, enabling the placement of orders via...
Ultrasonic data firm LISNR is getting a strategic investment from Visa to speed up expansion of its mobile payments, LISNR announced in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. 5). LISNR uses ultrasound technology to provide a solution that lets merchants and payment providers accept mobile...
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NEBR) shows that the majority of Uber riders don’t tip their drivers. The Verge said that only 1 percent of riders always tip and more than half (60 percent) never do. On average, a driver...
The multi-channel commerce platform Shopify is rolling out new features to help merchants sell hemp and hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products online and in physical stores wherever it is legally allowed, Shopify said in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. 17). Retailers in the U.S. can...
On a perfect day, when everything goes exactly to plan, managing a supply chain is no easy task — particularly when procurement processes have to handle scores of suppliers spread out across the globe. Also, as LevaData Founder and CEO Rajesh Kalidindi and Resilinc CEO...
Starting next month, customers looking for flights on Spirit Airlines in the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America will be able to make reservations over text message. Travelers will be able to buy flights and change reservations through Facebook’s WhatsApp starting Sept. 1 in both...
Video platform TikTok has launched an in-app feature that allows users to shop for products related to a sponsored Hashtag Challenge. The feature, called Hashtag Challenge Plus, prompts users to post videos of themselves using a product or participating in some sort of manufactured viral...
The best is yet to come. As long as checkout and payments are part of the plan. In one sense, that describes the situation for mobile commerce — specifically, retail apps — as 2020 looms. New research from PYMNTS and LISNR digs deep into consumer views of...
Tinder removed Google Play Store integration within its Android app to avoid Google’s service charge, which can be as high as 30%. Tinder users who want to subscribe to premium services will now be asked to enter their credit card information directly into the Tinder...
