Amazon’s foray into handmade goods has continued to spell bad news for the original craft-commerce gangsters over at Etsy since it launched about a month ago. Etsy’s stock has taken a 14 percent hit since November, largely attributed to Amazon Handmade. Interestingly, this does not seem...
Holiday shopping got moving into high gear last week, as consumers dug deep, browsed adamantly and shopped with the fevered intensity of athletes competing in the Olympics. The strenuous shoppers event of choice? Mobile commerce. When the dust had cleared, over $3 billion was spent...
While most experts like to cover the battle for smartphone market share supremacy as the be-all and end-all fight in retail, there’s more than a few segments where familiar brands are jockeying for position on the sales charts and in customers’ wallets. What’s unique about...
Consumers in Russia are about to have a very different reason to give Apple a chance. Starting this week, Russian shoppers will be able to purchase a host of digital content from the app store and add the charges to their monthly bill. No plastic...
When all phones could do was call and send the occasional text, consumers were crazy for devices that were as small and low-profile as possible. When they essentially became pocket computers, screens ballooned in response to the increase in functionality. Now, it looks like Apple...
There is nothing quite worse than having a famous older sibling, as Janet Jackson can readily attest. Janet Jackson is independently talented and a successful musician who has sold 160 million albums. That’s slightly more than the Eagles (150 million) and slightly less than...
ProPay, a TSYS company, announced the launch of its Pay-by-Text service for the dental payments industry in coordination with Practice-Web. The service will be the first practice management software that offers the mobile payment option to dental offices nationwide. What’s unique about this service is...
Until now, Amazon’s restaurant delivery service has been exclusively serving busy diners in cities scattered up and down the West Coast, but that’s all about to change. Amazon announced Thursday (Dec. 3) that the Baltimore area would be the first on the East Coast to have access...
The 1950’s B movies were a place where size really mattered, mostly because a majority of the plots revolved around making something much too big — or much too small. The culprit might be nuclear weapons, magical mist, a gypsy curse or intergalactic radiation —...
