The FTC initiated an assault against spam text messages focused on messages promising consumers free gifts or prizes, such as gift cards worth $1,000 to major retailers such as Best Buy, Walmart and Target.

With the use of mobile coupons growing, the Mobile Marketing Association has introduced new mobile coupon ad unit guidelines to help retailers and other marketers connect their mobile media ad spend with a point-of-sale event.

The Home Depot's use of an in-store checkout system enabling shoppers to pay with PayPal and their mobile phone number is the focus of a patent infringement lawsuit brought by PayOne.

A San Francisco-based start-up created a process to end long lines at a store by letting shoppers purchase something online through an app and then go pick it up without having to wait to pay.

Mobile commerce web site pages are built using various kinds of objects and mobile performance is measured by success rate, also known as availability.

An Illinois state regulatory body has notified the mobile payments giant of a cease-and-desist order born of allegations that Square is dealing with payments in Illinois without proper licensing.

Authors, publishing houses, and consumers are choosing the digital copy of books over the physically printed publications opening the door to mcommerce on a very broad scale.

With 80 percent of the population in its market without banking, an emerging markets mobile telco has set a target of doubling its revenues in the next five years as the company increases its focus on online and mobile commerce as well as data, broadband and TV.

Visa Europe has signed a new three-year deal to develop and expand its various Mobile Money solutions, which support mobile banking, payments and commerce networks, to more leading financial institutions across Europe.

In a promotion by Disney and Cargill, more than 7 million packages of Honeysuckle White and Shady Brook Farms turkey products will feature promotional QR code packaging during an eight-week period.