One in three young adults will use their mobile phone to purchase Christmas gifts for friends and family this year. UTalkMarketing and online survey platform Toluna Quick surveyed 1300 UK consumers and found that a staggering 32% of 18 to 34 year olds plan to use their mobile device to purchase gifts in the run…
Argos has like many other m-commerce retailers has opted to add PayPal to it’s rosta of payment providers. Argos this weekend will be rolling out it’s 75th catalogue and at the same time it will be adding PayPal as a payment option to it’s e-commerce and m-commerce systems. Mobile is seen to be a potential…
A recent survey of consumer technology users “Consumer Technology Barometer: Mobile (Q3 2010)” conducted by ABI Research in the United States has revealed that nearly half of smartphone users say they have already, or soon will, use their phones to do mobile shopping. 53% also use, or intend to use, their smartphones for mobile banking.…
Solutions provider for retailers, DigiPoS, has launched its MobileShopper mcommerce ecosystem, and claims it’s the first off-the-shelf package to combine, an app, mcommerece, mobile coupons and self-scanning technologies and more, in one solution. The MobileShopper iPhone app combines online shopping with the in-store experience, and is aimed at propelling retailers into the future; with the…
Video has always been one of the things to avoid when it comes to mobile, it’s hard to download for the user, and it’s even harder to create multiple different versions of a video for each handset, but a new system spearheaded by Invodo and cloud-based mcommerce business Digby, is set to make things easier…
By year-end 2013, location information or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90% of mobile transactions, according to Gartner. Gartner said that the rapid adoption of smartphones is forcing banks, social networks and other e-commerce providers to implement the kinds of fraud detection capabilities that have become mainstream with fixed-line computing.…
The worldwide mobile commerce market is worth $2.5 billion (£1.6bn) today, and will grow to $10 billion (£6.4bn) by 2012 According to Lazard Capital Markets the worldwide mobile commerce market is worth $2.5 billion today, and will grow four times in the next couple of years, with Android being the key platform for that growth.…
According to a survey by BrandBank Mcommerce is only really working for smartphone users with just 4% of UK consumers find making mobile purchases pain free. The 2010 Brandbank Mcommerce Content Report, shows some major attitudinal differences between consumers that own smartphones (21%) and those who don’t (79%), but the overall trend is one of…
