New mobile commerce solution coming from IBM and Monitise

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Companies expand partnership to introduce new mobile solution for financial services industry IBM and Monitise have been working together to propagate mobile commerce for some time. The two companies have found varying degrees of success in their initiatives, and are now looking to expand their alliance in order to introduce a new solution. Through the expansion of their partnership, IBM and Monitise aim to introduce a new, cloud-based mobile commerce solution designed for the financial services industry. This solution may help financial service firms better cater to the needs of…

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US Bancorp and Monitise aim to take on mobile commerce

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Companies come together to develop new mobile commerce platform Mobile commerce has been seeing some strong growth throughout the U.S. Many people are beginning to use their mobile devices to shop online more regularly and these people tend to spend more money through their mobile devices than they would normally spend at physical stores. U.S. Bancorp has plans to take advantage of the growing craze surrounding mobile shopping by developing a shopping application of its own. To accomplish this task, the organization has partnered with Monitise. Demand among consumers continues…

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Executives share predictions for 2014 and mobile commerce

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The year ahead may be bright With 2013 over, mobile commerce faces a new year that may be full of promise. Those investing in the mobile commerce certainly have high hopes for 2014 and executives from prominent mobile organizations have begun to provide their predictions concerning the year ahead. Many believe that mobile commerce will reach new heights as consumers and businesses alike become more comfortable with the prospect of mobile shopping. Others note that caution should be exercised in order to avoid the security pitfalls that were seen in…

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US Bank introduces new mobile commerce app

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Application puts a new twist on mobile shopping US Bank has developed a new application that is meant to serve as a mobile commerce platform for consumers. The application is designed to allow consumers to quickly purchase products that they may come across in their daily lives. In this way, it is quite similar to other applications of the same nature, but the application is able to provide information on products using image recognition and audio. As such, the application can be used to bring up a list of products…

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Monitise and IBM team to bring new mobile commerce services to Europe

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Mobile commerce services coming to Visa Europe Monitise, a mobile commerce firm, has teamed with IBM to provide new services to member banks of Visa Europe. Together, the two companies will work to promote mobile commerce services that are linked to cloud computing technologies from IBM. Introducing cloud computing to mobile commerce is not a new idea, but very few companies have managed to accomplish this feat successfully. Cloud computing could help bring a new level of security to mobile commerce that may make consumers more comfortable with purchasing products…

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