June 11, 2012
UPS Partners with Bridgeline Digital to Offer eCommerce Solutions
UPS signed a multi-year agreement with Bridgeline Digital to combine the latter’s B2B and B2C e-commerce tools with the mail carrier’s logistics and fulfillment offerings, a release shows. Headquartered in...
June 10, 2012
Mobile Commerce and PayPal: What Those Usage Numbers Really Mean
Mark Twain reminded us that there are three kinds of lies: “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” That famous adage, as most of you know, is a nod to how stats...
June 04, 2012
Levi’s Creates New Position to Oversee eCommerce Growth
Levi Strauss & Co. promoted Joelle Maher to executive vice president and president of global retail, making her responsible for the company’s e-commerce initiatives, Internet Retailer says. Levi’s is the...
May 30, 2012
Two Years Ago, VC Said Change Was Due ― He...
Near the beginning of 2010 — more than two years ago — Josh Kopelman, Managing Partner at First Round Capital, noticed something unusual. At that time, the World Wide Web...
May 27, 2012
China’s Tencent to Invest $1 Billion in eCommerce Efforts
Tencent Holdings, one of the largest companies in China, says it will invest $1 billion into a new e-commerce effort aimed at developing “a ‘new- generation’ business-to-consumer platform,” Bloomberg says....
May 25, 2012
The Wacky Ways of Russian eCommerce
It’s a commerce system that almost sounds too strange to believe — were it not being written about in The Economist. The system in question: Russia’s e-commerce environment, where buyers...
May 23, 2012
ROAM CEO: MasterCard’s Guidelines are Crucial For an Evolving Space
MasterCard’s new standards for mobile payment security provide much-needed guidance to an evolving industry that’s seeing explosive growth. Will Graylin, ROAM Data CEO and mobile expert, goes in-depth with PYMNTS.com...
May 22, 2012
Amazon, Target Among Winners in eCommerce Patent Lawsuit
A U.S. district judge decided in favor of Amazon, Target, and a host of other retailers that had been sued by Kelora Systems LLC this week, settling a patent infringement...
May 22, 2012
PwC to FIs: To Succeed in the Mobile Payments Ecosystem,...
FIs have traditionally been “slow to react,” Odunuga says, leaving them vulnerable at a time of rapid innovation. Rather than adopting a wait and see approach, Odunuga says banks should...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Nearly half of consumers in Mexico shop in-store without using digital shopping features — but merchants hear their customers’ cries for a better experience and are planning to add many. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 33-page report, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Mexico Edition,” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, features eight charts that provide a blueprint for merchants in Mexico to increase customer satisfaction and drive revenue.