iPhone and iPad users account for 92% of mobile purchases, study finds
Tag: "eCommerce"
Dec 26, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The tablet takeover of eCommerce
In so many things, understanding comes by following the money. It works in many criminal cases, political decisions, and societal sentiment. It also happens in the world of eCommerce. That being the case, it makes sense that as more money is being spent on tablets, more money is being spent through tablets.
Oct 29, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Amazon’s 7-Eleven locker system starts speculation
“Heading out for a Big Gulp and a Kindle,” you might end up saying to your loved one soon.
In an eCommerce world where just about anything that people need can be purchased online and mailed to us, logistics and risk of theft of packages left at the door make for concerns, albeit minor for most. There’s the PO Box option, but the post office isn’t always located conveniently.
Sep 05, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Walmart creates its own social media startup
Evernote, LinkedIn, Mint….Walmart? The retail giant is now among Mountain View’s leading startup companies following its purchase of Kosmix, the company behind real-time Twitter filter site TweetBeat, medical search engine RightHealth, and topic-specific engine Kosmix. The company has now been transformed into Walmart’s @WalmartLabs division, which aims to create technologies and businesses around social and mobile commerce.
Aug 29, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Google Catalogs iPad app digitizes catalogs, no more coasters
We all know what catalogs are good for: starting fires in the fireplace, light reading in waiting rooms and makeshift placemats. Oddly, Google has decided to take these perfectly useful glossy dead trees away from us with the introduction of Google Catalogs, a free iPad app. Like most shopping apps, users can zoom in, learn more and purchase products through a company’s website, but this one adds a slick little twist: collages. Put together a particularly sweet L.L. Bean ensemble and want to share it with Mom? No glue stick or scissors required. Check out the video after the break.
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Aug 17, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Online shopping is soaring (as if you didn’t know)
Brick and mortar stores are closing on nearly a daily basis. We have all seen companies like Blockbuster and Circuit City lose their wars to the online variations of their products. It isn’t just eBay and Amazon. Social sites like Groupon and Facebook are pushing online transactions, while other giants like Google and Apple are moving more products online than off.
Jul 06, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
MasterCard to buy DataCash for £333m
Stuart Sumner, Computing, Thursday 19 August 2010 at 11:46:00
MasterCard agrees to buy UK payment service provider to compete in the online payment market
US credit card company MasterCard has committed to buy London-listed internet payment company DataCash for £333m.
May 27, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Adobe Systems talks up importance of mobile channel
Rachel Fielding, Computing, Thursday 19 August 2010 at 11:48:00
Survey says 80 per cent of companies are giving precedence to mobile websites
Four out of five companies are looking to develop, or have already set up, a mobile website, according to a survey conducted by Adobe Systems, which adds clout to the mobile channel as an important medium to drive traffic and support multi-channel commerce.
May 27, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
