American Express and New York-based design agency Hush teamed-up to create an interactive installation allowing shoppers to discover small local businesses."Shop Small" consists in a large digital touchscreen on which users can browse "virtual storefronts…
By 1.00pm on 11.11.2014, consumers had spent more than RMB 35bn (€4.6bn) with Alibaba, beating last year’s total spend in just 13 hours of trading. And it took only three minutes for the website to reach its first milestone of RMB 1bn (€ 131m.) in…
Online spend by UK adults hit £91bn in 2013 according to a recent report published by Verdict Research. For 15-24 year olds online spending is expected to reach £5.7bn in 2014. The increasing use of mobile devices means that online shopping is no longer…
In its latest report dedicated to the mobile and online payment market, European think tank IDATE forecasts a tremendous growth in NFC payments in the next five years.The volume of NFC transactions worldwide could jump from 4.6 billion EUR in 2014 to 53.8…
Comptoir des Cotonniers took a step forward in mobile commerce on the 28th of May. Comptoir des Cotonniers, who are part of one of the fastest growing retail groups Fast Retailing, worked in collaboration with JCDecaux and PowaTag to launch their latest…
Amazon just unveiled the "Fire Phone", a smartphone equipped with a "dynamic perspective" technology able to display 3D hologram-like images thanks to four infrared sensors.The device features a 4.7-inch display, a 13-megapixel camera and runs a…
The Growth of M-CommerceThe smartphone: a device small enough to fit in your pocket, yet so advanced that it can hold the key to your whole life; your memories, your contacts, your daily agenda, becoming the link between you and your world – an actual…
Two years after Tesco's "virtual store" experiment, a new form of mobile-shopping is currently being tested in the Seoul subway.A grocery store has recently been set-up directly in a train, allowing commuters to purchase daily products during their…
PayPal is currently testing a new mobile-payment system based on facial-recognition and geolocation. An experiment is being conducted in 12 stores located in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames.Once in the store, the customer must use the PayPal…
According to a new report published by comScore, American m-commerce sales hit $10.6 billion in the first half of 2013 and could reach $25 billion by the end of the year, representing a growth of 24% in comparison to 2012.M-commerce spending now accounts…
After the two pop-up stores opened last year in London and Berlin, eBay plans to open another physical shop in New York this summer in partnership with retailer Kate Spade Saturday.The American e-commerce company announced that this location will include…
With 250 million claimed users, music identification service Shazam has emerged as one of the most popular mobile applications in the world. The London-based company is now turning to social TV by offering a new feature allowing its users to "tag" all TV…
Since March 2012, Amex customers have the possibility to sync their account with Twitter and get special discounts by tweeting specific hashtags. The two companies recently extended this service and now allow users to purchase online a selection of items…
The “Mobile Performance Barometer 2012” published by Zanox brings out different online shopping behaviors depending on the mobile devices.This survey shows that iPad users account for 53% of the European mobile-commerce transactions, iPhone and Android…
A survey carried out by comScore for Expedia Media Solutions shows the growing use of mobile phones by travelers for planning, searching and booking their trips on the go.The results also highlight travelers’ confidence in mobile payment.Furthermore, this…
The latest researches on m-commerce underline the growing development of this sector, as evidenced by the strategic positioning of the leading e-commerce groups on this market. However, recent innovations show that m-commerce actors are still searching…
Chinese e-commerce company Yihaodian has just launched a large-scale m-commerce experiment based on augmented reality by opening 1,000 virtual 3D supermarkets overnight throughout the country.In order to visualize and shop in these stores, customers had…
IBM is working on an app that will create a seamless in-store shopping environment. The shopper’s first step is to create a profile and indicate important info, such as allergies, biodegradable expectations, sugar content and so on.The shopper then scans…
Mediametrie and the FEVAD (the French federation of online and distance selling) have recently published the results of the 8th barometer looking at online purchase.This study showed that smartphone owners where increasingly likely to go online before…
Toshiba has just developed a new tool to facilitate cash supermarket sequences, called the new revolutionary Object Recognition Scanner (ORS).It can recognize any fruits or vegetables according to their shape, colour and surface, making conventional…