Apple is currently finishing up work on software for the Apple Watch, which may be available in the U.S. by the end of March, according to Seeking Alpha. Citing reports from 9to5 Mac, the investment site noted that Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts told Apple...
Circle’s Bitcoin wallet now allows its users to pay in-store with bitcoins using the Circle mobile app, VentureBeat reported on Tuesday (Jan. 6). The caveat: Circle users must have an Android smartphone equipped with an NFC chip, and the retailer must accept Bitcoin and also...
Mobile shopping on smartphones and tablets grew 174 percent in 2014, according to analytics vendor Flurry — including a whopping 220 percent jump on Android devices, VentureBeat reported. That made shopping the fastest-growing category for mobile usage, according to the company’s data. Productivity apps grew...
The Apple Watch has yet to be released, but mobile ad network TapSense has already announced the first programmatic ad platform for Apple’s iPhone-connected wearable, according to VentureBeat. The new ad platform will incorporate full-screen images — TapSense’s first example is a full-screen coffee ad...
The U.S. Postal Service is expanding its Metro Post same-day e-commerce delivery service to Washington, D.C. starting this month, ECommerceBytes reported on Tuesday (Jan. 6). The Metro Post service was originally tested in San Francisco for a year starting in 2012 and has been running...
Think online shopping is the perfect way to get around restrictions on when brick-and-mortar stores are allowed to be open? Think again — this week the Hungarian government said that e-commerce deliveries can’t be made when shops can’t stay open, according to Hungarian business publication...
Millennials are far more interested in starting their own businesses than climbing the corporate ladder, and that may drive new payments technologies over the next few decades, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. Those born after 1980 will make up 75 percent of the American workforce by...
Chinese real estate giant Dalian Wanda Group has pulled in 1 billion yuan ($161 million) for what it hopes will be the biggest omnichannel retail operation in the world, according to Forbes. The new money, for the e-commerce joint venture Dalian Wanda set up in...
Holiday-season online sales jumped 13.9 percent compared to 2013, according to a final report covering November and December from IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark. More than a quarter of that sales volume was from mobile phones and tablets, which also represented 45 percent of the traffic...
