China continues to send mixed signals to foreign-owned companies who want to do business in the world’s largest consumer market. On Tuesday (Jan. 13) China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that it will now allow wholly-foreign-owned companies to operate in the Shanghai Free Trade...
Philadelphia startup SpotItBuyIt is trying to help its clients turn Instagram accounts into mobile e-commerce engines, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. The startup’s co-founders had been working with small retailers and “kept hearing the word Instagram, and they really wanted help on converting mobile traffic...
It seems that Amazon will be taking no break in their attempt to become the online “everything” business in 2015, and is now developing a “secret” inventor platform aimed at helping create (and eventually exclusively sell) the next generation of electronic hardware. The proof, according...
Users are frustrated with their mobile shopping experience this holiday season, and social commerce could be next year’s fastest rising star. Those are the key takeaways from several new research reports, according to Mobile Commerce Daily. A Mobiquity study found that 33 percent of consumers...
As we reflect back at the last 12 months in payments, it can be difficult to recall all of the innovations that have helped omnichannel move from buzzword to a merchant forefront strategy. And at the very center of that strategy is mobile — specifically,...
The official kick-off of the annual shopping season was a week ago and that can only mean one thing: the annual horse race for holiday retail hegemony is now underway. Everyone is hard charging for the December 24th finish line. However with all the retailers,...
Line, the mobile messaging platform, is crossing into the payments sphere with its new Line Pay service that will launch worldwide next week on Dec. 8, VentureBeat reported. Line Pay users can use their messaging accounts to make digital payments through a credit card anywhere and...
Most city-dwellers are familiar with street musicians, the performers for the people who strum guitars, play pan pipes and sing with varying degrees of tunefulness at tourist attractions and on subway platforms nationwide. To finance their art, many put out a hat to catch tips...
Today will mark the tenth time that consumers whose need to spend was not quite quelled during the long Thanksgiving weekend, will return to work and carry-on commerce in one of the latest holiday season retail rituals, Cyber-Monday. While its easy to overlook Cyber-Monday in...
