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.

A smartphone-called car service introduced a new product called tol allow companies to give credits to employees on a month by month basis, potentially hooking employees on the service that allows them to summon cars via their smartphones.

A new report shows that more than half of the men surveyed would prefer to purchase a Valentine's Day gift from their mobile device instead of visiting a retail location.

A coffee house chain is offering mobile payments and special discounts to drive loyalty and sales and found it has been able to process mobile payments and drive loyalty.

A pay-by-mobile company has raised $10.2 million in new funding earmarked to expand its mobile Web payments platform into the emerging markets segment. The one-click operator billing platform enables consumers to charge mobile applications and premium digital content directly their monthly wireless account.

With smartphone users keeping their device within arms-length most of the time, businesses need to re-think how they interact with customers, attendees at IBM's Mobile Forum event in Toronto were told.

While mobile search in the U.K. has long been viewed as an important part of the media mix, there is now evidence that people are making high-end transactions via their devices rather than using them predominantly for researching purchases.

NFC is growing in France, as more than 2.5 million NFC-enabled handsets are now in use across the country, growing from the 1 million being used in June 2012. Cityzi, first launched commercially in 2011 with the support of Bouygues Telecom, NRJ Mobile, France Teleocm Orange and SFR, is now supported across 26 handsets and 55,000 travel and retail outlets throughout France, according the association.

A payment gateway and payments processing solution company has signed a strategic agreement with a mobile payment provider to integrate their respective platforms for the global mobile commerce market.

As consumers increasingly turn to their mobile devices to help scout out offers and deals, mobile coupons have gotten to a point where they need to be contextually relevant so that they can scale.