QR Code Press

Growing mobile online travel worldwide in 2012

03/21/201203/21/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

yStats.com has released the latest edition of its “Global Online Travel Report 2012”, which has provided an overall view with significant detail about the worldwide online travel marketplace, with the important inclusion of data regarding the use of mobile devices. The report examined the global market as a whole, as well as various individual regions, in addition to 37 countries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle-East, the Asia-Pacific region, and southern Africa. Furthermore, it provided the latest news about the current important companies and issues, making some predictions about trends…

Pop-up QR code stores are appearing all over the world!

03/20/2012 L. Green

The Stockholm Central railway station is now the home of the first QR code pop-up store in Sweden, allowing that city to join the many others that are adding virtual stores to their own public locations. In the case of Stockholm, the mobile barcode pop-up store was created by the e-commerce system developer company, Jetshop, who are hoping that this will provide consumers in Sweden with an opportunity to experience how simple and secure mobile shopping can be. Similarly, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has worked in collaboration with Taubman…

Moosejaw outdoor apparel and gear retailer offers mobile payment for purchases

03/19/201203/19/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

Outdoor apparel and gear retailer, Moosejaw, has announced that customers can now make purchases from anywhere within its stores using mobile devices. This has been made possible through the use of Linea-pro, from Infinite Peripherals Inc. (IPC) in combination with the fourth generation devices of Apple iPod Touch in order to provide consumers with quick and convenient options for making purchases. According to the Moosejaw senior vice president of marketing and technology, Eoin Comerford, in a company press release, by using a one-dimensional or 2-dimensional barcode scanner and a magnetic…

Over one in three consumers use m-commerce

03/04/201203/04/2012 Jesse Collins

A study performed by the Consumer Electronics Association has shown that the same devices that have revolutionized communication are now also changing the way that consumers shop, as 9 out of every 10 American consumers (about 216 million individuals) own a smartphone, tablet or cell phone, and 37 percent of them have taken part in mobile commerce in some way. The data from the research performed by this trade group based in Arlington also shows that on average, throughout the next 12 months, these consumers intend to spend about $575…

eBay secures new mobile partnerships and predicts significant m-commerce growth this year

02/28/201202/28/2012 Julie Campbell

eBay Inc. has announced that they are predicting significant volume growth in its m-commerce segment, as well as in its regular e-commerce and auction website, as it anticipates a sizeable increase in the number of people who use their smartphones to shop and pay for products. This online marketplace giant has already been making especially large steps forward into the mobile commerce environment, having developed new apps for its e-commerce platforms. The company has predicted that it will bring in $8 billion in m-commerce retail volume this year, and that…