Mobile commerce made up 60 percent of Amazon’s holiday shopping volume

Amazon mobile commerce

This year brought with it a considerable amount of use of smartphones and tablets for product searches. Amazon was a little bit stingy when it came to specific figures, this year – as has been its tradition – for holiday sales performance, but what it has revealed is that mobile commerce played an important role, and that it experienced certain “record breaking” achievements. Among the various claims such as that there was “record growth”, there was a smattering of numbers offered. For example, Amazon showed that it has now enrolled…

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Amazon launches a new mobile commerce service

Amazon mobile commerce

Local Register aims to promote mobile commerce among retailers Amazon has a strong interest in mobile commerce, but the company is not only keen to support mobile shopping in the digital space. Amazon has begun offering a new mobile-centric service that will allow merchants in the physical world to accept payments made from a mobile device. The service is called Local Register and is designed to compete with similar services being offered by PayPal and Square. The service may help Amazon further establish a strong position in the mobile commerce…

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Amazon mobile commerce enjoys explosive rate

Amazon mobile commerce

The massive online marketplace has reported that on Cyber Monday, shoppers purchased 426 items per second. As the holiday season heads toward a close, the Amazon mobile commerce numbers have now been released and have indicated that online shoppers purchased an average of 426 items per second and the majority of them were made from smartphones and tablets. This statistic was a part of the data that was released by the company for its holiday season. Many of the Amazon mobile commerce figures that were released by the online marketplace…

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Mobile commerce ads from Amazon may be helpful to publishers

Amazon mobile commerce

The hope is that it will help them to be able to bypass some of the hesitations of marketers. Amazon is now trying to provide a new opportunity to developers and publishers that will help them to more effectively take advantage of mobile commerce, in conjunction with the expected rapid increase in ad spending over this channel in the next several years. App developers have been struggling to convince marketers that they are worth the limited ad space. This new Amazon mobile commerce option opens up a whole new world…

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Mobile payments could be Amazon’s next big step

Amazon mobile commerce

A new solution may be introduced by the internet retailer according to recent filings made by the company. Though nothing official has been announced just yet, the mobile payments industry believes that Amazon is preparing to release its own platform that will offer a solution similar to GoPayment, PayAnywhere, or Square. This assumption has been made based on recent official filings that have been made by Amazon. The filing that has drawn the attention of the mobile payments world to Amazon was made with the United States Patent and Trademark…

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