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Mobile commerce from Fandango sees 171 percent growth

01/05/201304/13/2014 Jennifer Goula

The sales of mobile tickets soared last year when compared to the data from the year before. According to reports from Fandango, when comparing its figures from 2012 to those from 2011, it has seen an increase in its mobile commerce ticket sales by 171 percent. Moreover, it has now experienced 31 million app downloads, according to the company. This has made it clear that the movie ticketing industry is an important place for mobile commerce, and that it now has solid figures to back its claims for success. By…

Mobile payments for micro businesses dumped by Verifone

12/20/201212/20/2012 L. Green

The CEO of VeriFone has announced a withdrawal from direct-to-micromerchant services. VeriFone took the mobile payments industry off guard when its CEO released the surprising news that it would no longer be pursuing direct-to-micromerchant and would be selling off that part of its business. It explained that its Sail service has been unprofitable and that it would no longer be continued. The mcommerce news was released by Doug Bergeron, the VeriFone company CEO. After a year of heavy promotions of all of the company’s mobile payments services for tablets and…

Mcommerce has several barriers in India

12/17/2012 Sam Lambert

There are a number of challenges in the way of mainstream smartphone shopping. Mobile phones have already become a central part of the average lifestyle in India, but experts believe that mcommerce is still facing a bumpy road before it will become the norm within that country. The current statistics regarding the use of the devices in that nation is astounding. In fact, in a recent posting at NextBigWhat, the statistics from India said that there are more individuals who have mobile devices than there were people who had access…

Mobile commerce success at Target is booming

12/14/201212/14/2012 Jennifer Goula

The retailer has jumped 14 positions on the Keynote Systems site performance index. According to Keynote Systems, after repairing a number of issues with its mobile commerce website, Target has brought its home page average load time down to 7.85 seconds, causing its results to soar. That retail company has also eliminated struggles with its home page content and site redirection. After making these changes, it took Target Corp. only one week to bring itself up to the fourth position on the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index. The commendable loading…

Mobile payments awareness doubled this year

12/12/201212/12/2012 Jennifer Goula

Smartphone owners are beginning to learn more about contactless transactions. The results of research performed from eDigitalResearch have now been released, and they are indicating that consumer awareness in terms of contactless mobile payments is rapidly increasing. Among the participants in the study, one third have seen a point of sale device capable of the transactions. This doubles the number of people who had seen the devices in May 2012. That figure represents a massive growth in awareness of the technology and the acknowledgement of its availability in places where…