Last night I published a request asking for suggestions for companies that could replace the utterly dire payments check-out/gateway system used by The Cloud. I can’t quite believe that The Cloud’s product management team or their executive team allowed the existing system to go live in it’s present state. You can read about my crazy [...]
It’s not often that you see the PRs of three major operators playing nicely. Today, however, the stars have aligned. Here’s a statement from all three of them about their upcoming m-commerce JV. I just hope this doesn’t go the way of the Wholesale Application Community (“WAC”) which spent a lot of money and went [...]
I clicked on this Business Insider post that contains some perspective on what’s keeping Google executives up at night. What Googlers worry about in private is a growing trend among consumers to skip Google altogether, and to just go ahead and search for the product they would like to buy on Amazon.com, or, on mobile [...]
I’ve been testing with Spreaker. It’s a podcast app/service that enables you to immediately and easily broadcast a live show from your handset — or from your desktop. I thought I’d try out the iPhone app by describing the mobile commerce experience I had at my local tapas restaurant, Don Fernando. Care to listen? Woop: [...]
Have a read of this text from Internet Retailer — it’s not a suspicion. It’s a reality. I do it regularly. I see something I want or need, then either: a) I buy it (good for the shop I’m currently in) b) I find they don’t have the thing I need in stock, so I [...]
If you’ve been tracking the developments of the M-Commerce arena, you’ll most probably have had an eye on Square, the mobile payments startup. They’ve been doing rather well of late as this post from TechCrunch points out. It’s a useful primer that’ll bring you up to date. I’m interested to understand what the team at [...]
Thank you to reader Iain Mercer who emailed this morning about Starbucks. As a loyal fan of Starbucks filter coffee, Iain has using their reward card enthusiastically along with the hundreds of thousands of other caffeine addicted Brits. For a while now Iain’s been using the Starbucks iOS app to easily locate his nearest shop [...]
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