Tag: m-commerce

M-commerce grows by 100% in Germany and US

Mobile commerce hit it’s stride in 2010 with an increase in the number of visits to Amazon.com towards the end of the year, compared to earlier in 2010. According to the latest Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report which views trends for December 2010, there was an increase in mobile commerce with United States…

Starmount launch in-store m-commerce solution

US commerce software developers Starmount have turned m-commerce on its head and have introduced an in-store mobile selling assistant, Engage, that works on iPhones and iPads and is intended for use by shop staff rather than customers. “With the advent of the smartphone as a personal shopping device, retailers are now faced with customers that are,…

Mobile to account for 30% of US Christmas online spend

IDC Retail Insights has released figures claiming that mobile shoppers will account for over 30% of all money spent over Christmas in the US. IDC’s survey revealed that the increase in mobile shopping will be down to the efforts of mobile shopping “warriors” (hyper-connected individuals) and mobile shopping “warrior wannabies” (moderately connected individuals). Between them…

Consumers are moving faster than retailers to mobile

A survey commissioned by AIME, IAB and IMRG shows that 41% of UK retail brands expect to have a transactional mobile site or application within the next year Too few retailers have a solid mobile presence today, however, 41% plan to have a transactional mobile site or application in place within the next year, according…

Visa to trial m-payments digital wallet in US

There’s one phrase that never fails to depress the life out of us at Business Mobile and that is “digital wallet.” If we had a pound for every time we’d been told that the the digital wallet will replace the real wallet, and that it will make e-commerce, m-commerce etc more secure and make it…

Mobile ticketing is driving the m-commerce market

A new study by Juniper Research shows that the rapidly increasing usage of mobile devices for tickets for all kinds of travel and entertainment plus sports events will be one of the main factors driving the growth of mobile commerce. Mobile ticketing transactions are forecast to exceed $100bn (based on gross transaction value) as soon…