May 17, 2012
Will Pinterest’s Newest Investors Enable Payments and Purchases?
Japanese eCommerce firm Rakuten invested $100 million in Pinterest this week, and says it hopes to bring new commerce solutions to the popular image-sharing site. “We want to enable our...
May 14, 2012
What Merchants Want Out Of Mobile Commerce
As I said on Friday, CTIA invited 50,000 of its closest friends to gather in NOLA for its big International Wireless show. My final post will describe a few further...
May 10, 2012
U.S. Retail eCommerce Spending Jumps in Q1 2012
Online retail spending by U.S. consumers in the first quarter of 2012 reached $44.3 billion, up 17 percent over the year, according to the latest estimate published by comScore. Online...
May 09, 2012
Facebook’s Offers Test Works With eCommerce Sites, Too
Facebook Offers, the social network’s pilot test that lets small businesses distribute coupons online, works with online retailers as well as brick-and-mortar merchants, TechCrunch says. The difference is that while...
May 05, 2012
Rod Sims discusses eCommerce and bank price signaling
Rod Sims, the Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, outlined the watchdog’s priorities at the 2012 Competition Law Conference in Sydney. Sims highlighted the consumer and competition concerns...
April 28, 2012
Groupon’s New SVP Americas is a Former eCommerce CEO
Groupon named Kal Raman its new senior vice president for the Americas late last week, shifting responsibilities for operations in North, Central and South America away from CEO Andrew Mason....
April 26, 2012
DataCash Begins eCommerce Payment Processing Overseas
DataCash, a MasterCard subsidiary, has begun processing e-commerce payments in Japan, Finextra reports. Merchants will be able to accept payment from customers of Japan Credit Bureau (JCB), MasterCard, Visa and...
April 24, 2012
Smartphones to Deliver Most eCommerce Customers by 2014
A new study estimates that 26.4 billion visits to e-commerce websites will take place on smartphones in 2014, representing 53.2 percent of all e-commerce traffic. Conducted by Branding Brand, the...
April 23, 2012
Laptop vs. Mobile, Credit Card or Payment Service: What Do...
Click here to download a copy of the latest Mobile Payments & Online Shopping Survey. Increasingly, consumers are turning to new online technologies and social media tools to engage in a variety...
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.