Visa expands contactless payment app availability
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Visa on Wednesday announced that its Visa Tap to Phone product is available in over 15 markets and will expand to the United States next...
Only 7% of retailers offer a shared cart across channels
Fifty-six percent of consumers said they likely would shop at retailers that offer a shared shopping cart across channels, but only 7% retailers offer...
M-commerce payments boosted by coronavirus effect on eWallets
The coronavirus pandemic’s massive boost to digital wallet services in the offline arena with OEM Pay has been a key driver here.
The two single...
More than half of consumers shop online and offline equally
At least 60% or more of consumers in the U.S., U.K. and Germany said they shop equally offline and online, according to a March Periscope...
Libra, the cryptocurrency that Facebook would launch at the beginning of the following year
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According to a report by the Financial Times, Libra, the Facebook-led digital...
Basic Space looks to leverage the influencer economy
Basic Space debuted a curated mobile app and web-based marketplace for internet influencers to sell their own vintage fashion and pre-owned luxury items, as...
Amazon, Walmart dominate shopping app downloads in 2020: report
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Amazon, Walmart and Wish were the top three most downloaded shopping apps in the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report by Apptopia. Amazon...
Instagram launches in-app checkout with 20 major brands
Instagram on Tuesday announced the closed beta rollout of Checkout on Instagram, a new feature that lets mobile users complete and track purchases without...
Men, women not so different when it comes to shopping behavior
Over two-thirds of men and two-thirds of women do the majority of their shopping online and more than two-thirds of men and women are...
Amazon tests video ads in its shopping app, Bloomberg reports
Amazon is testing video ads in the Apple iOS version of its shopping app, with plans to expand to Google's Android mobile operating system...
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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation
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Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...
Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices ......
