March 26, 2012
Pier1 Putting Mobile Ads on Pandora
Pier1 Imports is hoping to reach on-the-go consumers by running seasonal ads on Pandora’s iPhone application. Mobile Commerce Daily notes that the partnership has been going on for some time....
March 15, 2012
eCommerce Talent Steal: Groupon Takes Zynga’s Product Mgmt. Director
Groupon has hired Curtis Lee away from Zynga, where he had been working as director of product management. At Groupon, Lee will hold the title of Vice President of Consumer...
March 14, 2012
Google Offers Adds 4 Cities, 11 Partners
Google Offers, a daily deal site, expanded service to four cities this week: Austin, Houston, Philadelphia and Miami. The service also gained 11 new deal provider partners: 8Moms, APDailyDeals, AT&T...
March 11, 2012
ZipZap, SafetyPay Partner to Bring Cash to eCommerce
SafetyPay, an e-commerce payments network, named ZipZap its preferred partner for cash payments in e-commerce. ZipZap’s CashPay system lets online shoppers pay for items with cash at one of 700,000...
March 11, 2012
Best Buy Steals Starbucks’ CIO to Run eCommerce
Best Buy Co. hired Stephen Gillett away from his role as chief information officer at Starbucks by creating a new position for him: President of Best Buy Digital and Global...
March 06, 2012
New Purchase and Pay Innovation to Drive Government Procurement
March 6, 2012–London, UK MasterCard, ProcServe and Invapay have announced a new initiative to deliver an innovative Purchase and Pay solution to underpin the government’s drive towards efficiency in its...
March 05, 2012
Is “Empty Hands” Safe? We Ask PayPal’s Patrick Gauthier
Have you bought anything with your finger yet? That’s the new consumer experience being offered at the register by PayPal. A long-time champion of the online payment space, the up-and-coming...
March 04, 2012
Top 15 E-Tailer To Spend $40M On eCommerce
W.W. Grainger Inc., an Illinois-based business supply distributor with more than $8 billion in 2011 sales, will spend $40 million to upgrade its online sales operations over the next four...
March 02, 2012
Facebook is for Babies, YouTube is for Rock Stars: A...
Which social networks influence particular niches of the eCommerce marketplace? A joint study from Beyond and M Booth suggests blogs sell beauty products, while search sells travel bookings.
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.