Americans will spend $61 billion on retail ecommerce for the holidays this year, up 16 percent from the same period in 2013, Chain Store Age reported. Online buying using desktop computers will represent the vast majority of that spending, reaching $53.2 billion, according to comScore’s...
As if Amazon and eBay needed more reasons to worry about Alibaba—which might also be getting frighteningly tight with Apple—founder Jack Ma said Thursday (Nov. 20) that Alibaba is creating an international version of Taobao, it’s E-Commerce marketplace, to serve shoppers in several languages, including...
Given the fresh popularity boost that Apple Pay has given NFC, concerns about the transmission’s use outside of Apple Pay has raised security concerns. Two companies, Oberthur Technologies and Mobeewave, are leveraging those fears and have rolled out a product designed to turn any NFC...
Provider of the mobile payment solution SEQR, Seamless announced that it has partnered with Newtek Business Services’ majority-owned subsidiary, The Secure Gateway, according to a company release.
Retailers. Brands. Consumers. Each stakeholder, with its own objectives and interests, plays a key role in the rapidly transforming, increasingly tech-savvy retail industry. And at the intersection of all three sits Jingit, the first real-time events-based payments and engagement platform, says Jingit’s CEO Kate Bolseth....
Will the new Apple iPad ring the register for merchants? Scott Holt, VP of Marketing and Solutions for ROAM and MPD CEO Karen Webster chatted about this, as well as the other developments that could help – or hinder – the existing plans of mPOS...
In a perfect world for merchants, building a loyal customer base would be as easy as luring them in with a great deal and then banking on the fact that they’ll just stick around after they’ve had a chance to experience the product or service....
Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Will Long Distance Travel Be The Next Ridesharing Victory? There’s nothing like being home for the holidays, or so the song says anyway. And given the 46 million or so travelers AAA predicts will be...
When Apple released its software developer kit on Tuesday (Nov. 18) for the payment-enabled Apple Watch, it was signaling that its watch is coming soon. But not soon enough for PayPal, which also rolled out its watch-like payment mechanism support for its Pebble app, on...
