Luxury retailers that embrace Wi-Fi can greatly enhance the customer experience in-store in a variety of ways, since Wi-Fi and mobile devices can be used by both sales associates and customers to create more engagement and positive shopping experiences.

A new report shows that the mobile commerce market is strong and growing rapidly. Popularly deployed mobile commerce initiatives include a mobile version of a customer website, mobile apps for customers and mobile apps for employees.

Several trends promise to disrupt the payments space this year, with mobile playing an important role as key players look to deliver greater value for merchants and customers, according to a new report.

With about 235 million Americans using mobile devices and the growing popularity of mobile payment options, retailers are realizing the value in making shopping easier for consumers. Market newcomer are paving the way for smaller merchants with innovative technologies.

A global leader in fragrance has announced an exclusive mobile payments processing partner to give the company's independent consultants the power to securely process credit and debit transactions from their mobile devices.

Canadians now have access to funds at 60,000 cashpoints and 766,000 POS terminals countrywide and a partnership is integrating the tech into BlackBerry smartphones via an app, with an NFC payments trial taking place at a McDonald's restaurant.

An online travel agency is making it easier for customers to find and book a flight via a new voice-activated mobile application, which is designed to make it easy for on-the-go iPhone and iPad users to find flight deals without the need to type in information.

The State Bank of Pakistan governor says that developments in branchless banking across the country have been so far marvelous, leaving nobody in doubt about the potential of mobile phone banking to be a game-changer in banking, m-commerce and financial inclusion.

An Australian retail marketing software developer in Melbourne has joined forces with a digital signage and appliance computing manufacturer to market and support a white label eCommerce and mCommerce platform.

Three high-profile big-box retailers received high marks for their mobile experiences, according to a survey by Prosper Insights & Analytics. In fact, among mobile users, 28.9% have used their mobile devices to shop at Walmart, 27.7% at Target, and 22% at Best Buy.