December 2012 – eCommerce, Online & Mobile Payment

A joint national study from Sybase 365 and the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) revealed that 87% of consumers in the US will use a mobile device to help make purchase decisions this holiday season. Well, although the survey has been in the US, we thought it might be of interest to our readers in Asia […]

Dynamic landing pages deliver changeable content, optimized according to a number of factors. They are especially useful in pay-per-click campaigns, as they can be used to evaluate marketing effectiveness. This is done by adding parameters to the linking URLs which will measure the effectiveness by checking click-through rates. Adapting landing pages, according to a fine

Apple’s recent high-profile launch of the iPhone 5 at the Yerba Buena Centre in San Francisco garnered a lot of media attention – and in the process, revealed quite a bit about the current state of the art in the mobile space. Some Apple fans were disappointed, for example, because the newest iteration of the

The year 2012 is coming to an end and in retrospective it can be said that countries without an established e-payment infrastructure take more advantage of mobile payment than others. Thus, unsurprisingly, Asians and Africans are by far the largest users of mPayment, as the so-called mobile wallet is not just the simple transfer of

First Data’s 9-page whitepaper discusses how devices like PCs, smartphones, tablets, ATMs and smart terminals provide merchants and financial institutions with exciting new ways to engage their customers, and we‘ve summarized it for your convenience.

Basically there are four types of mobile payment models, the Operator-Centric Model, the Bank-Centric Model, the Collaboration Model (collaboration among banks, mobile operators and a third party) and the Peer-to-Peer Model, where the mobile payment service provider acts independently from financial institutions and mobile network operators.  

Responsive Web Design means that a site is implemented in such a way that it adjusts automatically to provide an optimized web experience to the viewer on any device and any screen size. This is especially important in e-Commerce and m-Commerce, as customers nowadays are expecting ease of use and a compelling web experience across

There has hardly been a report on future developments in e-commerce this year that didn’t propagate social media and mobile commerce as “the next big thing”, giving dealers the impression that their sales would fall into a bottomless abyss, if they don’t take full advantage of these new trends in their online marketing strategies. But

Go Daddy, the world’s largest provider of Web hosting, domain name registrations and new SSL Certificates, appointed Blake Irving as Chief Executive Officer of Go Daddy, effective January 7, 2013, who will also join the Go Daddy Board of Directors. Irving will succeed Scott Wagner, who has been serving as interim CEO since July. Irving

For the eighth time, Capgemini‘s World Payment Report provides valuable figures and forecasts, and we‘ve attempted to pick out the highlights we thought might interest our readers most.