Global payments tech firm BlueSnap said Monday (Aug. 8) that Visa Checkout is available through the enterprise’s Powered Buy Platform. That integration, the company said in a statement, lets merchants have the “frictionless checkout experience” that would lead to an expanded reach to touch shoppers...
Pokémon GO, the hot new game that allows users to “catch” Pokémon on the streets through a virtual reality app, has made a record $200 million in worldwide revenue since it launched on July 6, according to information provided by Sensor Tower. To put things...
Grab, the Singapore-based ridesharing service that is Uber’s largest competitor in Southeast Asia, is negotiating to raise a new round of founding that would value the company at around $2.3 billion, according to TechCrunch. Last year, when the company raised $350 million in a Series...
There’s no question that mobile has established itself as a default channel as far as the average consumer is concerned, and the growing cottage industry of turnkey software-as-a-service startups proves that getting on mobile is as ironclad a requirement as it gets in commerce. But...
It’s not cheap work ensuring that wherever customers want to checkout, their favorite merchants are ready to meet them there. That’s been the mission statement of New York’s Shoppable since it launched in 2011, and a recent round of financing should keep the gears of...
ECommerce is here to stay, but the way consumers find their way to the products they want to buy doesn’t have to be. As things stand, images are the de facto way to navigate through online marketplaces with millions upon million of products — but...
As popular as online on-demand ordering apps and services have become, there’s still about 75 million Americans who still don’t possess a smartphone and can’t order an Uber or a takeout meal from DoorDash or GrubHub, according to the Pew Research Center. And, not surprisingly, these...
Within 24 hours of its release, Pokémon GO had stolen the hearts and minds of millions of players and countless more observers who didn’t quite know what they were seeing but knew it was a big deal nonetheless. Retailers began scrambling over each other for a...
So far, ice cream is one of those things that doesn’t translate well across the digital divide of modern commerce. Even with same-day shipping, there’s nothing like walking out of an ice cream shoppe with both hands wrapped around a cone — well, one hand,...
