Not just Apple, but apparently Amazon is interested in getting into the brick-and-mortar retail payments processing business, according to news reports. Read more »
Square is now in Verizon as well as AT&T stores. Working with the carriers gets Square closer to small business customers right as they’re buying their smartphones, and so far carriers… Read more »
Back in the e-commerce 1.0 days, there were high hopes among brick-and-mortar retailers that the bricks-and-clicks model would make them competitive against pure-play e-retailers. Those hopes were mostly unfulfilled, however, as… Read more »
The traditional ways that retailers and merchants reach out to users and how they expect them to discover, shop and pay are getting disrupted by mobile and social. And that’s created… Read more »