eBay and PayPal take out their digital wallet

by James Wester

eBay and PayPal revealed their mobile payments plan to analysts and investors.

Cellfire introduces location-driven grocery coupons

February 8, 2011

Cellfire Inc. has announced a partnership with Location Labs, a provider of mobile location-as-a-service infrastructure and applications, for its Store Alerts…

Mobile Monday: Abercrombie & Fitch app

The A&F iOS app comes up short in a critical area: Actually selling product.

Prime drivers for item-level RFID tagging: footwear and fashion

February 6, 2011

RFID item-level tagging (ILT) is being deployed very rapidly in apparel and footwear markets because of its acceptance by major retailers. Macy's, JCPenney…

Buy.com launches social shopping platform

February 3, 2011

Buy.com said its ShopTogether Community is a platform that allows shoppers to "virtually" share shopping experiences in real-time.

RedPrairie aquires Escalate Retail

February 1, 2011

RedPrairie Corp., a productivity solutions provider, announced it has finalized the acquisition of Escalate Retail, a leading provider of all-channel commerce…

OpinionLab adds auto-translate feature to VOC platform

February 1, 2011

OpinionLab, developer of voice-of-customer (VOC) listening technologies, has unveiled a major enhancement to its feedback-translation tool, enabling companies…

Retail At Risk From Technology

by Bob Phibbs — CEO, The Retail Doctor

We need to address the real concerns facing retail instead of looking to technology for a quick fix. This Manifesto can spur you to change the way your retail…

RichRelevance unveils open-source retail personalization testing tool

January 31, 2011

RichRelevance, a provider of e-commerce personalization for retail, today introduced RecLab, a new open-source project designed to spur innovation in retail…

Certona Product Recommendations drove 1 percent of all Cyber Monday purchases

January 31, 2011

Tallying the numbers from a positive 2010 holiday shopping season, multi-channel personalization firm Certona reported more good news in its post-2010 holiday…

Opinion: Most mobile retail strategies aren't innovative enough

Many proposed scenarios are just new twists on old ways of doing business, says one expert.

Mobile Monday: Apple Store App

Mobile customer scheduling could be a game-changing application for the retailer.

Foursquare and Facebook Places Face-Off for Loyalty

by Sharon Goldman — Senior Director, COLLOQUY

The check-in wars are clearly in full swing. Foursquare recently boasted it had 381,576,305 check-ins worldwide in 2010, and while I don't know the exact…

Contactless mobile payment services coming to the UK

by James Wester — Editor 1, Mobile Payments Today

Barclaycard, Everything Everywhere will roll out contactless mobile payment using NFC tech later this year.

Kiosk vs. Mobile: Industry insiders weigh in

As the popularity of mobile technology grows, will it spell the end for self-service as we know it?

NFC developer Proxama acquires proximity-marketing company Hypertag

January 25, 2011

U.K.-based Proxama, a developer of mobile contactless payments and near field communications (NFC) technologies, announced earlier this week it has acquired…

Next gen iPhones, iPads to support NFC

by James Wester — Editor 1, Mobile Payments Today

January 24, 2011

According to Bloomberg, Apple Inc. will ship the next generation of its iPhones for AT&T Inc. and the iPad 2 with support for near-field communication…

Kwik Trip selects Radiant Systems technology for its convenience stores

January 23, 2011

Radiant Systems today announced a new agreement with Kwik Trip, a Wisconsin-based petroleum and convenience store retailer with 425 locations, to equip its…

Harnessing the power of the mobile web

Mobile web is more than just the mobile website - it's an entirely different paradigm of use.

Report: Consumer goods, apparel, electronics are top targets for retail RFID

January 18, 2011

Forty percent of 125 survey respondents said a pilot store is part of their RFID roll-out strategy, according to a study released by Aberdeen Group.