July 10, 2012
Experts Weigh In On The Future Of Mobile Commerce
Consumer interest — along with millions of venture capital dollars — suggest now is the time to look more closely at the potential impact of mobile payments. With that in...
July 03, 2012
PYMNTS Daily Roundup: July 2-3
Gwallet UK launch imminent? IBM: How to save Brick-and-Mortar Retailing North American Bancard Names First CIO LivingSocial Experiments With Daily Deals, and It’s Like a Virtual Club Med CIFAS: 86%...
June 28, 2012
A Perfect Payments Pair? Plus, What Consumers Want
Here are our top five tweets from the week that was. Keep tweeting, and we may feature you next Friday. @mondatoportal: The money keeps rolling in for payment start-ups: http://bit.ly/KAVjT4...
June 26, 2012
Motorola Explains Why Mobile is Valuable to Big Retail
You might think of mobile payment card reading technology as a relatively cheap and simple way for small and medium-sized businesses to accept another form of payment. But Jerry McNerney,...
June 25, 2012
Still Some Kinks in Shopkick’s Loyalty App
We’ve written about Shopkick before: the 2009 loyalty startup uses its own specially designed location technology to detect when users walk into the physical locations of its merchant partners. Consumers...
June 14, 2012
European E-Tailer With $1B In Sales Opens Brick-and-Mortar Stores
Pixmania, an online retailer of electronics, jewelry, apparel and furniture based in France, has recently opened 20 physical store locations to support its online business, and plans to expand its...
June 12, 2012
LightSpeed, In-Store Shopping Technology Developer, Raises $30M
LightSpeed, a 2005 company that develops innovative shopping technologies for use within brick-and-mortar retail locations, raised $30 million in a round of equity funding from Accel Partners, TechCrunch reports. According...
June 10, 2012
Consumers Prefer Online Shopping, Despite Safety Concerns
Fifty-nine percent of respondents said online shopping was their favorite way to make purchases in a recent Nielsen survey. Brick-and-mortar stores still have an advantage in terms of trust; 69...
May 24, 2012
Best Buy CEO: Online Sales Growth “Far Outstripping” Brick-and-Mortar
Mike Mikan, interim CEO at Best Buy, says that the year-over-year growth of online sales is “far outstripping traditional retail sales,” according to Internet Retailer. “Consumers have needs and preferences...
