Mobile commerce has grown 24 percent in a year

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The data from a recent survey has revealed that spending is increasing rapidly over smartphones and tablets. According to the results of a recent study, consumers continue to love everything about their mobile devices and are using them on an increasing basis as a part of their overall shopping experiences through mobile commerce. Consumers are using their smartphones to help them to interact with their favorite retailers. This, according to a mobile commerce report that was recently released in a partnership between the Partnering Group and comScore. What it revealed…

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Mobile commerce report from PayPal offers trend insights

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The online payments giant has released its data for both smartphone based and traditional online shopping. There is no doubt that there is a future in online shopping, but what the latest data is showing is that mobile commerce is already the preferred method of making an online purchase and that smartphones are the top device over tablets and laptop or desktop computers when shopping outside of the home. This new study was conducted by PayPal and the results were just recently released. Within PayPal’s study, it looked into the…

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Mobile commerce sales this year should nearly achieve $42 billion

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eMarketer has released a report predicting that the transactions in the United States alone will be considerable. Research firm, eMarketer, has released a mobile commerce report that has indicated that transactions through smartphones and tablets across the United States will reach $41.68 billion by the close of 2013. If the firm is correct in its projection, it would mean that there would be an increase of 68.2 percent over 2012. The total that was reached last year was an estimated $28.78 billion. The total online retail sales in the United…

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Report shows mobile commerce trumps PC e-commerce

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Mobile commerce outshines PC comScore, a leading market research firm, has released a new report that sheds some light on mobile shopping and consumer preferences. The report shows that mobile commerce is beginning to gain momentum among consumers. These consumers are beginning to favor shopping via their mobile devices over going to traditional stores. Moreover, more consumers are beginning to use their mobile devices for shopping than their PCs. The report from comScore suggests that as many as a third of all traffic to e-commerce sites is coming from mobile…

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Mobile commerce still being driven by couponing

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These discounts have been sending the channel forward for a number of years now. Mobile commerce has been driven by coupons sent over smartphones for several years, already having a head start back in 2010, even though this channel represented only 3 percent of online shopping at that time. However, by the end of the holiday shopping season last year, comScore stats showed the channel spiked to 11 percent. Last year, mobile commerce represented about $18.6 percent of consumer spending following the holiday shopping season, not including the purchases related…

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