By Chuck Martin During the recent Starbucks annual meeting, CEO Howard Schultz introduced enhanced features to its highly used app, such as the ability to […]
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Mobile Shoppers & On-the-Fly Search
By Chuck Martin Real-time mobile shopping just may drive more consumers to click on ads after searching. It’s no surprise that more people are using […]
Continue readingMobile Payments on the Fast Food Menu
By Chuck Martin The advancement and adoption of mobile payments is picking up steam, at least at locations where millions of people eat. In the […]
Continue readingWhat They’re Saying about Mobile Payments
By Chuck Martin While the issue of mobile payments is far from settled, there are plenty of entities vested in helping determine where it ends […]
Continue readingQR Codes: Moving Beyond the Scan
By Chuck Martin QR codes got somewhat of a bad rap early on. It wasn’t that the two-dimensional codes couldn’t be easily read with a […]
Continue readingThe Growing World of Low-Budget Mobile Commerce
By Chuck Martin Mobile commerce may be extending to the masses. Two pieces of unrelated news from different parts of the world may be an […]
Continue readingBanks Getting Closer to Offering Mobile Shopping
By Chuck Martin Banks have been in one way or another involved in various aspects of mobile commerce for some time. Some of those activities […]
Continue readingMobile Payments Apps & the Slow Road
By Chuck Martin When it comes to mobile payments, it may come down to the haves and the don’t wants. In a new nationwide snapshot, […]
Continue readingSmartphone Shopping with Apps? Not So Much
By Chuck Martin Shopping apps still don’t appear to be main stream in terms of usage. Retailers regularly tell me that most of their mobile […]
Continue readingThe Little Things that Make Shopping Apps Better
By Chuck Martin Some commerce enabling apps are becoming more useful. Driving home from a family holiday gathering last year, my family kept asking me […]
Continue readingThe Privacy-Value Mobile Balancing Act
By Chuck Martin Several new studies paint an evolving picture of the privacy-security value proposition. Sentiments about mobile payments have improved to 74% of those […]
Continue readingSeeing vs. Believing Mobile Commerce Is Happening
By Chuck Martin Mobile commerce is not always easy to see. I regularly receive notes after writing about this or that mobile shopping survey with […]
Continue readingSXSW and the Long-Term Mobile Sell
By Chuck Martin Sometimes using mobile to sell can be a lengthy ordeal focused less on the sale and more on the shopping process itself. […]
Continue readingA Call for Mobile Payments on SXSW Panel
By Chuck Martin While mobile payments around the world may still be just getting off the ground in many cases, some seem anxious for them […]
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