A UK retailer is enjoying a massive boost in m-commerce as the chain's legion of shopping mothers embrace new technology, with a quarter of online orders being made on either mobiles or tablets, expecting to climb to half by the end of the year.

Starbucks says it is generating more than three million United States mobile payment transactions per week and announced it is rolling out a cross-channel, multi-brand loyalty brand.

A new study has found that while credit cards dominated the preferred payment method from web-based transactions, 78 percent of mobile-based transactions use alternative payment methods.

Visa, one of the most powerful players in the sector, wants to ensure that it charges a fee to anyone offering a digital wallet, whether Google, PayPal or a carrier.

A new study in Asia shows that more than half of Indonesian and Thai consumers using their mobile phones to shop in the last three months. China follows closely.

A joint venture in China plans to drive growth among mobile users there by focusing on mobile e-commerce. The venture expects to increasingly drive the volume of online shopping in the world's second-largest economy.

Payment processing giant Heartland Payment Systems said Today that it plans to roll out the LevelUp mobile payment system nationally to make mobile payments mainstream this year.

Walmart is expanding its 'Scan & Go' program to a number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters.

Banana Republic is driving click-throughs on its ad with a 10 percent off coupon that can be redeemed in-store enticing users to shop either in-store or through their mobile devices.

The mobile commerce web site of Barnes & Noble tops the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index for the week, now ranked among the top three retailer sites for 30 weeks.