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Mobile commerce technology uses pictures to find products

04/13/201304/11/2013 Jesse Collins

The new Visual Fashion Finder from Cortexica compares a retailer’s catalog images to a shopper’s photos. Cortexica, a provider of image recognition technology, has just announced that they have made an important step toward a way to be able to take a picture of anything, and then apply that image to mobile commerce purposes so that it can be instantly purchased online. The tool is being called the Visual Fashion Finder and allows shoppers to use their smartphones in a new way. The Visual Fashion Finder would work through the…

Mobile commerce is made up of frequent searches

03/16/201303/14/2013 Jennifer Goula

Consumers aren’t just looking into products, services, and companies while they’re on the go. The results of a recent research study conducted by Nielsen and Google Inc. regarding the ways in which smartphone searchers use their devices in terms of mobile commerce have just been released. They found that purchases are often made relatively soon after a search has been made. The study determined that 55 percent of mobile commerce searches that lead to a sale convert within an hour from the time that the searching was performed. Google and…

Mobile commerce study reveals important data about search requests

04/29/201204/29/2012 Jesse Collins

A Chitika mobile commerce study showed that Linux drives the fewest searches and iOS and Mac platforms drive the most. Though Google easily receives the most queries in terms of search engines – with a 92 percent share – but according to the Chitika ad network, when it comes to browsers, Google is not generating the mobile commerce traffic. Instead, it is Apple iOS mobile platform that is generating the highest number of queries, as 54 percent of its internet traffic performs searches. In second place is the Macintosh OS,…