While consumers are still using multiple platforms — such as desktop and mobile — “mobile-only” users are on the rise. In fact, “mobile-only” users surpassed 30 percent of users in almost half of the markets studied by comScore in 2017 for its “Global Digital Future...
Spending on mobility solutions is expected to increase 3.2 percent this year, with global spending hitting $1.6 trillion, driven by mobility-related hardware, software and services. That’s according to a new “Worldwide Semiannual Mobility Spending Guide” from market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC), which expects spending...
CloudCraze, the enterprise eCommerce startup, announced Tuesday (March 13) that it is being acquired by Salesforce, the customer relationship management software company. In a blog post, Ray Grady, president and chief customer officer at CloudCraze, said the company’s B2B commerce platform, which is built on Salesforce’s cloud...
Zelle, the mobile payment service of U.S. Bank, says that close to 100,000 customers sign up for the payment app on average each day. According to news from TechCrunch, Zelle said it processed more than 247 million payments last year, which marks a 45 percent jump...
It’s time to talk more about what we’re really trying to accomplish for consumers — and for our businesses — and less about the tactics some are trying, with mixed success, to accomplish that. It’s seemingly all about tactics these days. The 2018 predictions seem more like a...
As part of its plan to become a so-called 21st-century company, Airbnb announced Thursday (Jan. 25) in a blog post that it is naming Ken Chenault, chief executive officer of American Express, to its board of directors. In an open letter, Airbnb chief executive officer Brian...
The Fitbit Ionic, released last fall, was a departure from the Fitbit brand the world had known thus far. The original Fitbit was pitched to the world as a mostly single-purpose wearable designed to help users get in shape — the $29 fitness-focused alternative to the much more...
Spending on in-app purchases jumped 12.3 percent on Monday (Dec. 25), with consumers around the globe spending money on in-app purchases, subscriptions and premium apps. That’s according to marketing intelligence provider Sensor Tower Store Intelligence, which found Apple’s App Store and Google’s Google Play store...
Payments has by and large been a growth business for the last half decade or so, and that fact has been mappable in scores of innovations around the world. But, as PYMNTS’ Karen Webster pointed out, for all of those advances, one is conspicuously missing from...
