‘e-Commerce’ Archives
Money is going mobile – that means your cash, credit cards, checkbook and wallet
Mobile payment hasn’t become the de facto method of financial transactions just yet, but it is projected to overtake those archaic checkbooks and bank notes you’ve been lugging around. Our friends at SapientNitro have compiled research to create this infographic, which [Read More]
IBM study shows mobile commerce accounts for 13.3 percent of all sales
IBM today announced the results of its Q1 2012 online mobile and buying trends study. The results showed that mobile commerce accounted for 13.3 percent of all sales, up from just 7% during Q1 2011, said Jay Henderson, strategy director at IBM Digital Marketing. The study [Read More]
Companies ignoring the lucrative 50+ online consumer
The population in question is the growing slice of the American population 50 years old and up. According to Steve Jurvetson, a managing director at venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Jody Holtzman, a senior vice president at AARP, many digital companies are [Read More]
eCommerce websites need to be more ‘smartphone’ friendly to build customer base
There is little debate that the meteoric rise in usage of smart phones and mobile devices to access the internet is telling of the future. Recent studies on consumer buying behavior have eCommerce based website owners taking notice. Nielson released a study March 12th [Read More]
Braintree becoming a major payment provider for ecommerce sites
Besides being some of the hottest start-ups around, Rovio, Uber, Fab.com, Airbnb share a common thread: their payments are powered by Chicago-based Braintree, a payment provider that has quietly become a force in the online commerce world. The company, which raised $34 [Read More]
Bestelling author goes DIY and launches virtual store to sell more books
Bestselling indie young adult fiction and romance author Lizzy Ford has announced the launch of a virtual store on her website www.GuerrillaWordFare.com where she will sell digital copies of her books and autographed paperbacks directly to her fans. The early results have [Read More]
Ready to go from dollars or euros to VEN – the new virtual currency
Creating and preserving wealth is based on anticipating change - the only constant in the contemporary world of ever-expanding digital technology, suggested Stan Stalnaker, founder of the virtual currency Ven and its affiliated social network, Hub Culture. He made the [Read More]
EBay Sales Exceed Estimates on PayPal, Holiday Shopping
EBay Inc., the largest Internet marketplace, reported sales and profit that topped analysts’ estimates, buoyed by a campaign to promote its expanded retail offerings and broader use of the PayPal online-payments service. Fourth-quarter revenue rose 35 percent to $3.38 [Read More]
PaymentOne passes $5 billion mark in virtual and mobile good services
PaymentOne, the pioneer in frictionless payment and carrier billing solutions, today announced the company surpassed $5 billion in micro-payment transactions and incremental revenue generation for its digital clients. PaymentOne enables publishers, application developers [Read More]
Almost 1/3 of U.S. gamers buy virtual goods with real money
U.S. gamers, whose online purchases of digital goods were once paid for largely by credits earned from advertiser offers, now say they are migrating to “real world” payment for digital goods using debit, credit and prepaid cards, according to a new study of online gamer [Read More]
