Mobile Commerce Trends

Google Play to warn users about mobile apps with known problems

03/09/202303/08/2023 L. Green

Users are already receiving warnings when they are about to download known performance issues. Google has been taking additional steps to help people downloading mobile apps from its Play store to spot the applications functioning well and those that already have known performance issues reported by individuals with similar devices. Users are starting to report having been given a heads up about applications that are known to be problematic. The new form of warning is based on data Google collects about the performance of mobile apps on user devices. This…

Microsoft officially broke up with Internet Explorer on Valentine’s Day

02/15/202302/15/2023 Sam Lambert

The tech giant released a software update meant to permanently disable IE 11 on Windows 10. Valentine’s Day is usually seen as a day for relationships, but for Microsoft and Internet Explorer 11, it was the day the break-up became official. The end of the old browser hasn’t come as a surprise, as it announced the shutdown last year. Since last year, Microsoft announced that it would be releasing a software update that would permanently disable the Internet Explorer 11 app in Windows 10. Instead of issuing an update for…

Metaverse policing strategy is under development at Interpol

02/13/202302/10/2023 Jesse Collins

The global police agency is investing the ways crime can be regulated in a virtual reality universe. Jurgen Stock, secretary general at Interpol, said that the police agency is currently developing a strategy that the organization will be able to use to police crime that occurs in the metaverse. The virtual reality universe has seen a great deal of hype but has yet to experience any mainstream use. Interpol has developed its own virtual reality (VR) environment in anticipation of a potential widespread use of the metaverse. In Interpol’s VR…

Meta Platforms launches a “Year of Efficiency”, and its stock takes off

02/06/202302/03/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to work on achieving improved efficiency and decision making. Facebook founder and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pouring billions into the digital metaverse world and the company has been bleeding money as a result of these ventures. The company is now committing to focus its attention on the more immediate problems it is facing. Following drooping stock prices and substantial losses, Meta Platforms will now be buckling down and looking to correct its more immediate problems, such as sending its users improved relevancy…

Consumers are using their mobile wallet more, but prefer plastic

02/03/202302/02/2023 John Montgallo

While shoppers may be increasingly using their phones to pay, their cards are still a preferred method. Consumers have been using mobile wallet transactions to an increasing extent, but even among those who have been using their phones to pay, many still prefer using a debit or credit card, according to the results of a recent JD Power report. The report was based on a survey of 3,588 retail bank customers across the United States. The mobile wallet survey was conducted between the first quarter of 2021 and the third…