Australia’s Domino’s Pizza Enterprise has seen thousands of sign-ups for its crowdsourcing application enabling local consumers to design their own pizzas, advertise them on social media sites and receive a part of the sales. The results were reported in The Wall Street Journal. The pizza brand, while essentially transforming customers into sales channels, is aiming for the interactive campaign to drum up sales and increase customer loyalty.

The View from The Shard, London’s highest viewing gallery, has helped to launch Aruba Networks' new Mobile Engagement service in a bid to improve its visitor experience. Shipping in 2015, Aruba Mobile Engagement is powered by a new line of Aruba Beacons. These are low-energy Bluetooth devices which, when deployed alongside applications built on the supplier’s Meridian app platform, will provide indoor location data for opted-in smartphones.

An equity analyst has managed to get his hands on a copy of Apple’s ‘commercial agreement’ with credit card companies and issuing banks. The commercial agreement had been kept secret since Apple Pay’s launch. Sanjay Sakhrani, an analyst from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, recently published some main points from the agreement. In the revelation, he mentioned the fees Apple is collecting for Apple Pay payments. As per his analysis of the term sheet, Apple receives 15 basis points or 0.15% on each credit card transaction and half a cent on each debit card transaction. The process involves credit card networks collecting Apple’s transaction …

Using a mix of its own data and third party data, mobile ad personalization platformAppLovin is predicting that nearly 30 percent of Cyber Monday transactions this year will come on mobile devices. This is transactions — not traffic. The awkwardly named Cyber-Monday has been the biggest online shopping day of the year in the US since 2010 according to comScore data. In 2013 Cyber Monday sales rang up roughly $2.3 billion according to Adobe.

As Internet usage surges, an increasing number of online retailers in West Africa are springing up, giving mobile phone users a variety of options to buy and sell new and used items. Emerging markets like West Africa, where online shopping is still in its infancy, offer the highest growth potential for the e-commerce industry, according to Sumesh Rahavendra, head of marketing for DHL Express sub-Sahara Africa, in a report released last week.

Walmart is kicking off its holiday deals with an expansion of its Savings Catcher feature and a new Search My Store tool that prioritizes key information such as in-store availability and location.  With such a large inventory, the new tool enables personnel and customers to quickly keep track of available items from their mobile phones. By streamlining access to important information that it can take several steps to retailers in other retailers’ apps, Walmart is hoping to answer customer feedback about wanting to be able to shop more self-sufficiently.

British department store Harrods is helping U.S. fashion label Ralph Lauren gain attention for its first Polo line for women with a mobile-enhanced window display. Using mobile proximity technology, the displays let passers-by unlock exclusive and interactive content. Going beyond the traditional window display enables a brand to expand the customer experience through multiple channels.

It's been more than a decade since Wal-Mart entered the e-commerce zone, but the company's yet to become a prominent player. The big-box retailer's scale of operation is unbelievably gigantic, with revenue inching closer to the $500 billion mark, but its online sales make up a tiny contribution -- less than 3% of total revenue. Ramping up the e-commerce business is essential for Wal-Mart to drive growth, and it's investing heavily to capitalize on this growth opportunity.

Shares in online grocery house Ocado (LSE: OCDO) have enjoyed a bumper start to the week, the firm’s 8% rise making it the biggest FTSE riser in Monday trading. Investor appetite has been helped by news of super sales growth at internet takeaway specialists Just Eat, and here I explain why Ocado should continue heading skywards.

Canadians of all ages will set new records shopping online this holiday season, according to a number of industry insiders. Canadians are coming a bit late to the e-commerce party. In Britain close to 15 per cent of overall retail sale are made online. In the U.S. it's nine per cent, according to Forrester Research. Canada is at six per cent.