TechCrunch
A mobile commerce startup wants to simplify the process of purchasing various grocery staples via your mobile phone. The company already has one-click purchasing and two-day shipping for products that can be ordered on its mobile apps. Now it's redesigned its app to provide easier browsing of its inventory.
Mobile Marketing Watch
Retailers are being presented with a package that acts as a full point-of-sale system. The platform allows users to do everything from accept payments to perform analytics on their businesses, all done from one device.
Business2Community
In-store mobile commerce is highly appealing to customers and is growing in scale every year. Consumers are having fears of getting their personal information compromised quelled and smartphones are already beginning to turn into digital wallets.
Yahoo News
IBM unveiled its expanded mobile strategy called MobileFirst today in an effort to gain an advantage over rivals amid a proliferation of devices such as smartphones and tablets.
FierceWireless Europe
This year marks the first time in recent history that Google's executive chairman won't be giving a keynote at this year's Mobile World Congress. However, there are two other Google executives, one in sales, and more importantly, the director of product management for Google Wallet, who will be prominent.
Mobile Marketer
The mobile apps of luxury hotels seem committed to telling visitors about themselves in a one-way conversation rather than fostering two-way conversations in a firm, ongoing way to optimize the customer experience.
Mobile Commerce Daily
Omaha Steaks is launching a new mobile initiative to make it easier for consumers to receive offers and place orders using their mobile device via texting their orders.
The Drum
A new survey has found that almost half of US and UK consumers are now more likely to make a purchase through their mobile device than they were a year ago.
FierceMobile Content
Tablet gamers are on pace to spend more than $3 billion on in-app goods like power-ups and virtual currency in 2016, exploding from $301 million in 2012, according to a new research forecast.
Inside Retail
A supermarket chain in Australia is testing a new mobile payment system that could see the end of traditional loyalty card programs used at the checkout. The test is using the MasterCard Mobile Wallet.