This will include different mobile payment and mobile couponing services including the ability to integrate with social media networks like Facebook.
Mobile Commerce
21 February 2012
20 February 2012
This is a problem for Facebook because it’s one less business it can “tax” to generate further revenue.
Walmart, which originally funded the retail giant last year, has made another undisclosed investment in Yihaodian to bring Walmart’s total ownership stake to approximately 51%.
Another sign of how the e-commerce company is getting more focused on mobile: it has aquired Kima Labs which is specialized in mobile barcode reading apps.
17 February 2012
Mobile web adoption is happening 8 times faster than traditional web adoption in the late ’90s: with such a growth comes a new set of user behaviors and consumer trends.
16 February 2012
The deal will let the operator offer financial services, such as peer-to-peer payments and containing store card details via mobile phones, worldwide.
Google officially announced that it has “restored the ability to issue new prepaid cards to the Wallet.”
The mobile payments company is launching its new, single-click credit card checkout today, which allows shoppers to pay without an account, username or password.
15 February 2012
Thompson has scuttled Yahoo’s plans to trade its stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba back to Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, by means of a “cash-rich split.”
The acquisition of the online shoe and accessories retailer creates an enormous Russian Internet retail powerhouse that will be hard to match.