Tag: mobile commerce adoption

Mobile commerce is maintaining its rapid climb

L. Green
Mobile Commerce Shopping

A recent report has indicated that the rise that the channel is experiencing shows no indications of having slowed. B.I. intelligence has just released a report that shows that the massive increases seen in mobile commerce over the last several quarters are still headed in the same rapidly upward direction. The company reported that in 2010, smartphone and tablet shopping made up only 3 percent of online purchases. However, since that time, and with the massive penetration of smartphones and tablets throughout the American population, that number has been steadily…

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Mobile commerce makes up one fifth of U.K. online purchases

Julie Campbell
UK mobile commerce

A recent report has shown that smartphone and tablet shopping have increased by 5,000 percent in three years. A new mobile commerce report has just been released by Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) and Capgemini has suggested that in the first quarter of this year, 20.2 percent of the purchases made online came from smartphones or tablet devices. The report found that the adoption of shopping over smartphones and tablets is explosive in the U.K. Moreover, not only is mobile commerce growing extremely rapidly, it is reaching levels that…

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Mobile commerce expanding as wallets grow in popularity

Jorge Gonzalez
Mobile Commerce News

Wallet applications help boost adoption of mobile commerce As mobile commerce continues to grab the interest of consumers around the world, the competition in the mobile wallet field is beginning to heat up. Mobile wallets are the platforms through which mobile payments are made. These simple mobile applications store a consumer’s financial information, accessing this information in order to facilitate a payment. Most conventional mobile wallets are based on NFC technology, but because this technology is still somewhat exclusive in the mobile commerce sector, wallet applications are becoming more connected…

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Mobile commerce grew 31 percent in 2013’s first quarter

Jennifer Goula
mobile commerce growth

According to the latest IBM Online Retail Index, shopping with smartphones and tablets is growing fast. Driven primarily by shopping over tablets, mobile commerce sales rose by 31 percent in this year’s first quarter, as multi-channel buying has become one of the most popular ways to learn about and purchase products. At the same time, the same data indicated that retail sales in stores rose by 3.7 percent in that same time. These figures are from the latest IBM Online Retail Index, as well as from the U.S. Department of…

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Mobile commerce activity doubled last year among the Top 500 retailers

Jorge Gonzalez
mobile commerce trends

According to the latest data, there are twice as many active companies as there were the year before. The 2013 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide has shown that many of the leading companies are now realizing that mobile commerce is becoming increasingly important, and are beginning to become active in the channel with smartphone friendly websites and apps. It showed that there were twice as many using m-commerce in 2012 as there were at the same time in 2011. Last year, there were 322 merchants on the Top 500 list…

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