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COMMENTARY: How Mobile-App Testing Can Stop Three Common Types of E-Commerce Fraud

In the race to attract and retain today’s always-on, mobile-savvy consumer, most companies are developing their own e-commerce apps at a fast and furious pace. But small glitches, and even major mishaps, can occur when app testing is rushed or overlooked altogether, leading to unhappy consumers, lost sales, and a …

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Eye on In-Store Commerce: Adyen Comes to the POS; Diebold Eyes Mobile Checkout

E-commerce processor Adyen Inc. announced on Thursday it is now offering payments capability for physical stores in the United States, a move that follows the company’s success in providing a payments gateway for a number of prominent digital clients, including Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix. Also on Thursday, ATM maker …

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Groceries, Drug Stores, C-Stores Yawn at Mobile Payments, Focus on E-Commerce

By John Stewart What kind of technology are grocery stores, drug stores, and convenience stores most interested in? Not mobile payments, at least not right now. That’s the conclusion of the Los Angeles-based Center for Advancing Retail & Technology LLC, which operates an online marketplace of retail solutions for merchants …

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Holiday Mobile Payments Predicted To Grow 47%, With All E-Commerce Up 14%

Powered by growth in mobile payments, so-called digital commerce for 2015’s holiday season will grow 14.3% to $70.1 billion from last season’s $61.3 billion, Internet metrics firm comScore Inc. predicted Wednesday. Reston, Va.-based comScore defines digital commerce to include desktop e-commerce and mobile commerce. The firm predicts desktop e-commerce for …

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Biometrics Poised To Become Predominant Mobile-Commerce Authentication Method: Report

  Biometrics will be the secure authentication mechanism for 65% of all mobile-commerce transactions in five years. That’s the forecast from Acuity Marketing Intelligence, a Denver-based research firm, in its “The Global Biometrics and Mobility Report: The Convergence of Commerce and Privacy” report released last week. The forecast says this will …

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Physical Stores Still Dominate Retail Despite Headlines on Mobile, Online Commerce

In spite of all the hoopla about burgeoning e-commerce and mobile-commerce activity, consumers still prefer to shop inside a store, finds the “Total Retail: Retailers and the Age of Disruption” report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP. Of the more than 1,000 U.S. consumers surveyed, only 27% said they shop online weekly. But, …

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M-Commerce: For Billers, Mobile Isn’t Optional

Richard Crone and Heidi Liebenguth To ward off third-party interlopers, billers must understand their bill is their brand. That means seizing the unprecedented opportunity that lies in mobile apps. Remember the bad old days of online-banking bill pay? Billers were forced to accept bulk payments in the form of so-called …

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Mobile Purchases Claim a Rapidly Rising Share of E-Commerce Traffic, Gateway Study Shows

By Kevin Woodward Smart phones and tablets continue to garner a larger share of payments as consumers increasingly use the mobile devices for more than talking and sending text messages, finds a survey from Amsterdam-based global gateway provider Adyen Inc. In the Adyen Global Mobile Payments Index, covering May through August, …

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