June 19, 2014
Creating The Omnicommerce Consumer
Mobile is the tool of choice for consumers and merchants as they meet at the intersection of on and offline commerce. But how to best use this powerful tool in...
June 02, 2014
Alibaba Helping Merchants With Online Video Ads
Alibaba Group has begun placing Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com merchants’ display marketing on the country’s top online video websites through the company’s Alimama online marketing platform, the Chinese e-commerce giant...
May 29, 2014
Are Merchants “OmniReadi?”
Omnichannel is clearly the retail industry’s “it” buzzword. At its best, it delivers the great promise of consumers moving fluidly between devices and shopping channels, with retailers in lockstep at...
May 06, 2014
Summer School Course & Faculty Matrix
[custommenu menu=”SummerSchool_2014″] Summer School Course & Faculty Matrix Mobile, Payments, and The Reinvention of Retail Tuesday, August 12 All courses will take place in The Northwest Building on the...
March 11, 2014
Foursquare Lands $15M From Microsoft
Foursquare has received a $15 million investment from Microsoft. As part of the deal, Microsoft received a multi-year licensing deal for Foursquare’s location data, the company said in a Feb....
March 10, 2014
10 Things Payments Innovators Are Teaching Us About Innovation
03 March 2014 We’re T-minus two weeks and a few days until the March 19 kick off of Innovation Project 2014. It’s been a real thrill over the last few...
November 08, 2013
Fed: Card Use Falls For Fourth Straight Month
By Michael Patrick McSweeney (@mpmcsweeney) Newly released Federal Reserve data has revealed that consumer interest in services like car loans increased in September, but that Americans remain apprehensive about taking...
January 07, 2013
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or eCommerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...
November 21, 2012
American Express Announces Media Partnerships For Television Commerce
American Express has partnered with Fox, NBCUniversal and other media companies in order to drive its “T-Commerce” initiative, reports Finextra. “The integration of commerce enablement into the television and mobile...