Luxury Daily
Tiffany is promoting its app download with a shopping section completely optimized for mobile browsing and allows consumers to complete a purchase via the mobile site.
Mobile Marketing Watch
Ford revealed a new partnership at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona today. As a result, owners of Ford models with SYNC AppLink will soon be able to access Spotify's catalog using its smartphone app.
Mobile Commerce Daily
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.
Wired
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.
ClickZ
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.
Mobile Marketing Watch
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."
FierceMobile Content
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.
Mobile Commerce Daily
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.
Luxury Daily
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.
Mobile Marketing Watch
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.