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Mobile commerce share from iOS devices is 80 percent

11/05/201211/05/2012 Stephanie Beck

Apple devices make up the majority of all wireless online spending . The time has arrived that smartphones and tablets have become mainstream products, and people are using them for a growing number of daily activities, including shopping using mobile commerce websites. The more shoppers use these devices to make their purchases, the more Apple seems to take the lead. This is an important consideration as one of the most defining holiday shopping seasons for mobile commerce begins to take its very first steps. It is believed that approximately one…

Mcommerce study predicts increase by 300 percent in 3 years

11/03/201211/03/2012 Sam Lambert

Though smartphones will play an important role over the holiday season, by 2015 there will be massive growth. The results of a recent study by Tapjoy have shown that while the next couple of months should be quite defining for mcommerce, over the next three years, the sector will increase by well over 300 percent (up to 362 percent in the United States). This will occur as more consumers buy smartphones and use them to make their shopping purchases. Though there are still many shoppers that will head out into…

Mobile commerce is more active among tablet users than those with smartphones

10/22/201210/21/2012 Julie Campbell

Shoppers behave differently when making their holiday purchases, depending on their devices. According to a report from the National Retail Federation, which discussed the role of mobile commerce in this year’s holiday shopping season, although the increase in sales is expected to reach 4.1 percent over last year at the same time, it is believed that smartphones and tablets will represent a larger part of the buying marketplace than it has in the past. The research also showed that 30 percent of tablet owners would be using their devices to…

QR codes, free Wi-Fi, and price matching part of Target’s holiday mix

10/19/201210/19/2012 Julie Campbell

The Christmas shopping season has a number of aggressive mcommerce elements. Now that Best Buy has set the bar for price matching over mcommerce, Target has followed this successful lead over the holiday season by adding QR codes and price matching with competitors such as Amazon, while free Wi-Fi to give shoppers the ability to inform themselves and perform their comparisons. Other stores that are included among the prime competition are Toys R Us and Walmart. The QR code promotions Target has implemented are meant to help to draw online…

Apple may become the top vendor of PCs in the world with iPad

11/24/201111/24/2011 Stephanie Beck

Canalys research has suggested that with iPad 3, Apple will probably take Hewlett-Packard’s spot as the top manufacturer of PCs before the end of the second quarter in 2012. Apple currently holds the second spot as a PC vendor worldwide and has experienced a leap in its market share from 9 percent to 15 percent in only a year’s time. This jump is credited greatly to a significant demand for its iPad tablet product, which is considered to be a computer by Canalys. Equally, though, iPad shipments in the United…