Despite all the pressure that brick-and-mortar retailers are feeling from online and mobile commerce, physical stores are still the primary place shoppers turn to buy things, according to an annual consumer survey by PwC. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
It may still be more than a week until Chinese New Year on Feb. 19, but China’s online war of the Red Envelopes is already well underway, Tech in Asia reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Smartphones’ share of online retail sales jumped 50 percent in 2014, and mobile continues to top retailers’ marketing priority lists, according to a new report from Forrester Research. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
The topic of security and mPOS is as old as, well, mPOS. But now that 51 million devices are expected to be in market by 2019, in support of a variety of use cases across a variety of merchants, the decibel level of that conversation...
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German startup investment company Rocket Internet has added to its galaxy of food delivery partners by investing a 30-percent stake in take-out aggregator Delivery Hero, worth 496 million euros, Bloomberg reports. The investment means that the Berlin-based food company is now valued at over $2 billion...
In an effort to nurture the budding online commerce community of South Korea, PayPal announced that on Feb. 12, it will have a website and call center in the Korean language, according to Korea Joongang Daily. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Groupon is in talks to spin off Korea’s second-largest e-commerce company Ticket Monster for a possible value of $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. If successful, Groupon could make as much as four times its investment back after just one year, when the company...
SimplyTapp, a leading provider of HCE services for merchants, announced late last week (Feb. 6) that it received an additional $2.5 million fundraising round as part of its Series B fundraising plan from mobile payments platform Mozido. This brings the total funding for the company...
