The principal at the New York-based venture arm of Japanese telecom giant SoftBank sees mobile inflecting upwards the overall growth curve of e-commerce nd sees showrooming as a big problem for retailers.

The chief executive of EBAY says that the online retailing giant is at "a massive inflection point" with its payments and retail businesses and that factors such as the growth in mobile devices suggest there will be big changes ahead.

Car shoppers to be greeted by "geniuses" roaming the showroom floors armed with tablets. The aim is to give prospective vehicle buyers an improved, personalized customer service experience.

Taco Bell is driving in-store traffic to its stores by incorporating mobile-location so that when consumers tap on a mobile ad, it expands to feature a store locator where consumers can find the nearest Taco Bell location by entering their ZIP code or cross street.

An alliance involving 60 South Korean companies promoting mobile payment services has been selected as the most innovative telco service offering of December.

A steakhouse chain is leveraging Apple's Passbook as well as text messaging in two separate campaigns that successfully drove customer engagement. Offers were distributed to mobile subscribers on Veterans Day based on their proximity to a location and saw a 37 percent installation rate.

A new post-holiday e-commerce report found that on Christmas Day 2012, 16% of all e-commerce traffic came from smartphones and 15.6% came from tablets, a marked upswing from a year earlier when just 6.4% came from smartphones and 8% from tablets.

Recent research found that both Singapore and Hong Kong are experiencing spikes in mCommerce, but when you drill into the details, mCommerce in Asia looks a heck of a lot like e-commerce in the U.S

A Swedish company leader in the Scandinavian mobile payments market and an Italian company that support large-scale retailers are partnering to launch a joint solution for mobile commerce.

Three daily newspapers in Thailand are embedding augmented reality (AR) codes in the papers in an attempt to lead people from offline content into performing e-commerce transaction via their mobile devices.