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eBay believes 2012 will bring significant growth in mobile shopping

01/16/2012 Julie Campbell

eBay has announced its predictions for 2012, which include $7 billion in total mobile payment volume, as well as $8 billion in gross mobile merchandise volume. These figures were drawn from a speech at the Las Vegas CES conference made by John Donahoe, the CEO at eBay. They have risen notably from those that were announced last year, and they indicate the upward direction of m-commerce for the largest online marketplace in the world. At the same time, the company also revealed that PayPal had far exceeded the predictions that…

Mobile gift card shopping now available through CashStar

11/04/201111/04/2011 Julie Campbell

The incentives and digital gifting company, CashStar, has revealed that it will now be including the purchase of gift cards on the mobile web in its already significant digital gifting platform. Smartphone users will now be able to conveniently and easily purchase eGift Cards using their mobile devices, through the complete optimization of the service for the mobile web. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, this new tool allows retailers to take advantage of the incremental sale of eGift Cards within the increasingly popular marketplace of mobile shopping.…

Mobile Commerce – the Next “It” Thing in Shopping – Has Arrived

06/09/2011 Stephanie Beck

Smartphone apps and technology are considered not only to be the next big thing in commerce, but are already playing an important role in reshaping the retail marketplace. The results of a PayPal survey made in partnership with the Australian Retailers Association, which was released earlier this year, revealed that online transactions made by way of mobile phone have skyrocketed in Australia. It suggested that among consumers with smartphones, 68 percent intend to use this payment method in the future. It also indicated that spending via mobile phone broke the…

Consumers today demand immediate results from technology

04/11/2011 Jennifer Goula

Out of 10 million people that attempted to shop or purchase items via mobile commerce last year, almost 8.5 million of them had some type of problem during the transaction. A survey conducted last year by a leading market research firm, showed that mobile technology is woefully lacking, and businesses still need educated on mobile commerce platforms. Technology has created the illusion of a highly advanced civilization; that’s why most consumers have no patience or tolerance when it comes to glitches and poor performance with our electronic devices.…