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.

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.

As the global migration from cash to electronic payments moves forward full-steam ahead, Visa formally launched a new partner program designed to "accelerate the introduction of innovative payment solutions globally."

Fewer than one in five consumers are aware of the term showrooming, although more than a third reported that they do engage in the activity. A better price online was cited as the key reason for showrooming.

PayPal's new mobile card reader in the U.K. wouldn't seem like big news, but there's a difference: the overseas version crushes anything available stateside.

Google and Nielsen released new mobile holiday shopping data that looks at how consumers used multiple screens to shop this year and found that with consumers using multiple devices to aid in the shopping process, this holiday season had a direct correlation to the amount that users spent.

New research shows that avid video gamers are shelling out more cash for games on their smartphones than their portable video game systems and traditional handheld gaming systems are losing ground fast to iOS and Android mobile devices.

A New York department store chain is advertising on the New York Times mobile site has a simple design encouraging mobile shoppers to shop from their mobile device.

A mobile gifting application has amassed a million users since launching 14 months ago in Sweden. The business lets consumers send friends and family gift cards from retailers including Clarins and Gap.

PayPal is extending its PayPal Here mobile payment processing platform to Europe, beating rival Square in the race to establish a beachhead on the other side of the Atlantic.