Mobile’s tremendous role on Cyber Monday

cyber monday mobile commerce

Data from PayPal, eBay, GSI Commerce, and IBM has all shown that Cyber Monday this year saw a spike in mobile activity as the early holiday shopping season truly took off. Cyber Monday falls on the Monday after the Thanksgiving Weekend and has been the opportunity for online retailers to offer Black Friday-like sales to online shoppers. However, this year, with a growing number of consumers accessing the internet from their tablets and smartphones, a notable amount of the shopping on that day is occurring by way of mobile channels.…

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eBay acquires Hunch to add its custom recommendation technology to its services for shoppers

Ebay m-commerce News

The largest online marketplace in the world, eBay Inc., has announced the acquisition of Hunch, which will allow it to include product and service recommendation technology so that it can offer greater value to its customers. The actual details of the purchase weren’t disclosed. Hunch.com was first launched in 2009, and provides users with customized suggestions based on their unique preferences and tastes. It makes its determinations based on data gleaned from other websites and social networks. According to eBay, Hunch will help the company to improve the selling and…

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eBay claims that m-commerce success requires stronger foundation

Mobile commerce Risks

eBay has led a group of retailers, trade bodies, and network operators from across several industries and has used a “Mobile Manifesto” to announce to the UK government that m-commerce will only take off if a better network infrastructure is prioritized. According to eBay research, almost 50 percent of smartphone users in the United Kingdom are unable to take part in mobile shopping activities due to limitations in their mobile internet speeds. eBay worked along with Populus, a research agency, to determine that 45 percent of smartphone users did not…

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