About 5 billion email offers are sent out in the U.S. each day. But what if those who receive them could purchase an item or pay a bill in two simple clicks, all within the email itself? John Killoran, CEO of @Pay, has created a...
Value Retail, which operates designer malls through out Europe, says that the time where luxury brands can treat their outlet stores and “dumping grounds” for unwanted products is coming to an end. The outlet operator says that the value-conscious shopper is a serious and motivated...
SnapUp wants to make mobile shopping easier by allowing users to organize products they want from multiple locations with nothing more complicated than clicking a screen shot. The app takes over from there, recognizing the saved products in an iPhone’s camera roll, moving them into...
Will it soon be possible to directly purchase goods through Twitter? It looks as though that might be the way the e-commerce wind is blowing now that a “Buy Now,” button has been spotted on Twitter, reports Recode. During a brief period yesterday, Twitter users...
There’s no question that U.S. merchants, even the smaller ones, are moving to mobile. SMBs in particular are increasingly investing in mPOS solutions not just as card acceptance devices, but also as solutions that help to better run their businesses. When it comes to what...
History is filled with good ideas great and small that started out humbly scrawled on the back of napkins. Aaron Sorkin reportedly wrote the entire first draft of A Few Good Men on cocktail napkins, and there would be no mPos Tracker at PYMNTS were it...
The latest forecast from Morning Star is out for Alibaba’s IPO, and it is a whopper. According to The Wall Street Journal, the firm puts Alibaba’s equity value at $220 billion and predicts that the Chinese e-commerce mega-retailer’s IPO has raised $26 billion. If Morningstar is...
Walmart announced earlier this month that it is ready to strengthen its position in the e-commerce market. According to a recent article on The Street, the e-commerce revenue at Walmart.com accounts for less than 3 percent of Walmart’s total sales. However, with a new CEO...
First Data Corporation, a payment technology and services solutions provider announced earlier this week that it had debuted new cloud-based software that uses big data behind payment transactions to help small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) monitor key business metrics affecting their company. Additionally, it...
