Fashion retailer Dooney & Bourke announced March 10 that it has shifted its digital commerce operations to Massachusetts-based cloud commerce solution provider Demandware in an attempt to enhance its online shopping processes. “Our online presence often serves as the first touchpoint with our brand, so we...
More and more Americans are using their mobile devices to access the Internet, while a higher percentage are visiting retail websites exclusively on their mobile phones, according to data from comScore. A report, published and analyzed by Internet Retailer, shows that nearly half of digital shoppers at America’s Top...
With players like Google, Apple Pay, Samsung, and Alipay driving mobile payments around the world, merchants have a plethora of choices at their fingertips. Placing bets on particular payment methods can be tough, says Rick Barbari, Group VP of Payment Products, Digital River, but one...
Point-of-sale malware is the cause of most retailer data breaches, according to the PCI Council, and it’s getting ever sneakier to avoid detection as it steals payment card numbers on the fly. Two new examples of their stealthy techniques were unearthed by security researchers last...
Online retailer Zappos, part of the Amazon family, announced on March 4 that its mobile app is now Touch ID enabled through iOS with the new update that was released two days earlier. “Passwords can be a hassle and that’s where Touch ID comes in,...
Today, trade consists of two sales channels: physical stores and online.But what mobile wallet SEQR, provided by Seamless, sets out to do with Shop Spot is provide create a third sales channel — from every type of media. The feature targets merchants, brands and media,...
Another point-of-sale vendor has been hit by cyberthieves. NEXTEP Systems has confirmed that a breach exposed payment card data for cards used at the Zoup restaurant chain, which uses POS devices from NEXTEP, Krebs on Security reported. Payment card accounts used at “a large number”...
A consumer-issues strategy group is pushing card-issuing U.S. banks to support PINs when they issue new EMV chip cards this year, and not just the chip-and-signature approach that Visa and MasterCard are allowing them to use, Finextra reported on Monday (March 9). Washington, D.C.-based Consumer...
Everyone believes mobile payments are the next big thing. It’s just that no one quite knows when that next big thing is likely to take off, or what exactly it’s going to look like. “I think that’s where the future is going to be going...
