While shopping online is not much of an event for anyone anyplace on Earth at this point, Hyperwallet Managing Director for Asia-Pacific, Simon Banks, noted that even in the very recent past that wasn’t quite the case. “If you went into the eCommerce market 15...
Mastercard, UnionPay International and Visa have introduced a Standardized Quick Response (QR) Code for payments, accelerating Thailand’s transition to a cashless society. According to a press release, consumers holding a Mastercard, UnionPay or Visa card can pay using a mobile application with Standardized QR Code support...
Samsung Electronics, the South Korean consumer electronics company, may be getting a lot of buzz with the launch of the Galaxy S8 line of smartphones, but its Galaxy 7 controls the market when it comes to mobile Internet surfing. That’s according to ScientiaMobile, which released its...
Starbucks reported second quarter results that showed a big uptick in mobile ordering and an increase in its rewards program. For Starbucks’ second quarter, which the company reported on Tuesday (May 2), the coffee chain operator said active U.S. membership in its Starbucks Rewards grew 11 percent...
No direction home, sang Bob Dylan, who never had Waze, and never had a Dunkin’ on the Waze way, we’d guess. Tongue-in-cheek aside, Waze has debuted an “order-ahead” feature with Dunkin’ Donuts that lets users of the former order the latter and pick up said order at...
Living up to consumer expectations is difficult work these days for many reasons, not the least of which is that consumers are a fairly heterogeneous group of people with widely varying expectations. Baby boomers who grew up in the age of white-gloved service and millennials...
Startup companies are formed every day, and with that there comes concerns over intellectual property. To help protect startups, Intertrust Technologies Corporation unveiled its program with the goal of defending litigation risks. Joining Intertrust in this endeavor as a patent contributor is Google. The new...
eBay’s efforts to reinvent itself amid a shifting eCommerce landscape that continues to be trod upon, and heavily, by Amazon, showed up less than fruitful in its latest earnings results, at least as judged by investors. As noted in numbers put out on Wednesday (April...
The benefits of mobile order ahead are well documented, says Emma Beckerle, director of Client Services at LevelUp, as consumer satisfaction and order sizes increase. But for all the benefits there are challenges, including some new ones, that threaten its success. Forewarned is forearmed.
