If you were a veteran of racetrack betting, you’d be doing the happy dance with Amazon’s Q4 financial trifecta win. Why a trifecta? Three reasons for a huge Amazon smile at their financials: sales increased 38% to $60.5 billion in Q4 compared to $43.7 billion ...
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Today’s newsletter looks at a big jump in 2017 holiday e-commerce fraud, the drivers behind China’s mobile payments growth at home and abroad, and Starbucks no-cash only payments test in a Seattle coffee shop. ACI: Holiday e-commerce fraud attempts jumped 22% A new ACI Worldwide ...
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A new ACI Worldwide research report showed 2017 holiday e-commerce fraud jumped 22%, while transactions increased 19%. ...
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Alipay and Tencent's WeChat Pay are leveraging profits and payments expertise from China into the global market, starting in SE Asia. ...
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Starbucks is testing a non-cash-only payments policy at a busy downtown Seattle coffee location. ...
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The Center for the Digital Future paints a valuable profile of the online consumer and the paths to purchase online. ...
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We’ve got a wide-ranging newsletter to start the year. First up, a look at the 2017 retail and e-commerce holiday sales season where a 5% increase in US retail sales, surprised many. Next, we feature a brand-new research report from Feedvisor with an in-depth look ...
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Amazon, utterly dominated e-commerce in the US in 2017. We’ve got 20 facts from a Feedvisor research study of Amazon shoppers that every online competitor should know in order to compete in 2018. Amazon has between 70 million and 90 million Amazon Prime members and 85% ...
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Final 2017 holiday e-commerce sales results are in with numerous winners mixed in with some prominent losers. Let’s start with the good news. Adobe e-commerce sales highlights Adobe’s 2017 Online Shopping Holiday Report was mostly positive, with some valuable insight for next year’s planning: 2017 ...
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The battle of the moment in the financial services industry is over access to and control of consumer financial data, whether login details like account numbers and passwords or data about how customers use banking and payment services, such as interest rates and historical purchase ...
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