Tag Archives: mobile media

Moms and Mobile Shopping

According to a 2013 survey by Alliance Data,  the majority of U.S. moms said that they used a smartphone or tablet at least once a week during the shopping process — for research and/or buying. More than one-third of the respondents … Continue reading

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Retailers Experimenting with Mobile Devices and the Job Search

Many retailers have been using some form of computerized job search tools for a quite. Now — slowly — retailers have begun incorporating mobile media in the process. As reported by Lauren Weber for the Wall Street Journal: “‘With the … Continue reading

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A New Advance in Mobile Technology: Payment Processing

Jack Dorsey is best-known as the creator of Twitter. However, it is his most recent venture — Square, Inc. — that is impacting the payment-processing system in retailing. The firm is a mobile payment-processing provider. Here’s how Issie Lapowsky, writing for Inc. describes … Continue reading

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