Italian fashion house Gucci quadrupled mobile revenue and experienced a 70 percent growth in mobile conversion since the beta launch of its optimized website for iOS and Android devices.

Major League Baseball is expanding its use of mobile ticketing via Apple's Passbook app to include 13 stadiums this season, increasing from the app supported at the New York Mets, the San Francisco Giants, the Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals.

Office Depot views mobile as a utility tool to help consumers shop instead of using the medium to drive conversions and the company is embracing mobile for multichannel marketing.

A new report shows that Apple's iAd campaigns that offer a digital reward generate click-through rates as much as 12 times higher than those offering a standard discount.

A British fashion house has optimized its website and used responsive design for mobile devices, allowing consumers to browse and purchase products on the go or find a nearby store.

With flash sales sites posting significant growth during the recent holiday season - driven in large part by mobile users - other retailers are looking to get in on the action with their own flash sales offerings.

Mobile payments are all the rage these days and as a result, headlines are coming out of Barcelona fast and furious. However, each headline is a new obituary for clunky, expensive, out-of-date cash registers.

Leading auction eBay is looking to double its forecast from last year after a surge in activity via mobile devices. The company has revised its global m-commerce forecast and predicted that it will generate in excess of $20 billion in mobile sales volume in 2013.

With online merchants poised to increase shipments into new markets on the back of PayPal's expanding coverage for mobile e-commerce payments service, the fastest growing markets for Hong Kong online vendors are the Philippines, Argentina, South Korea, Sweden and Russia.

Seamless is seeing mobile play a big role in the company's ongoing efforts, with more consumers turning to their smartphones and tablets to place their favorite orders. The company has seen mobile orders increase from 10 percent to 40 percent from 2011 to 2012.