ShopSavvy's new look is paying off in a big way.
In its ongoing effort to become a universal payment service, PayPal is today launching a new service that should simplify shopping on mobile websites.
What if your smartphone was actually smart enough to know the exact product you're standing in front of in a store, without any help from your part?
Google's ramping up mobile monetization today with a new sponsored search result ad type, a product listing ad. It also reduces the mobile search presence of the showroomer's biggest ally: Amazon.com.
Poshmark, the fashion mobile marketplace that has boomed in both growth and funding, finally launched its iPad app today.
A new study from the location analytics company Placed shows which retailers are most at risk for showrooming from Amazon customers -- and the results might surprise you.
In the battle between made-up consumer holidays, it looks like Black Friday still reigns supreme on mobile devices.
There once was a time when the biggest shopping scams were overpriced department stores and fake purses. But now shoppers should be on alert for Cyber Monday, the Internet's answer to Black Friday, which creates a whole knew arena for ripping you off.
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Shopsavvy is about to get a lot more useful for Best Buy shoppers.
The rising popularity of mobile shopping apps is leading to entirely new consumer behaviors, according to a joint report by mobile data compression company Onavo and IDC.
Today’s shoppers likely spend more time looking at their smartphones than weekly in-store circulars. Hoping to take advantage of this new trend, intent marketing company LocalResponse and ShopLocal, which helps stores digitize their circulars, have joined forces for what could …
You’ve likely never heard of Giftango, but the provider of a digital gift card platform for retailers and businesses is becoming an increasingly essential company for mobile shopping and e-commerce. Today the company announced that Shopkick, makers of the mobile …
Oh, how the times have changed for ShopSavvy. When the barcode-scanning app first launched on Android in 2008, hundreds of retailers had refused to give up their pricing and inventory data to it. Now that ShopSavvy has proven itself as …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
There’s no doubt that mobile payments are generating plenty of hype among the tech community, but how long will it be until they go mainstream?
65 percent of experts surveyed by the Pew Research Center agreed with a statement that …
Physical retailers need to stop being afraid of the mobile shopping revolution and play to their strengths instead, a panel of executives told the audience at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit today.
VentureBeat brought together Google’s head of mobile Jason Spero, PayPal’s …
Forget your girlfriend, your mobile phone is fast becoming a better companion in times of crisis — you know, when you need to score the best deal on that sexy gadget or you’ve left your wallet in the car.
New …
Mobile shopping options and free shipping offers made buying goods online too convenient to pass up last year.
Consumers put their digital wallets to work to the tune of $161.5 billion for all of 2011, and $49.7 billion in the …
More than just a nifty mobile app for consumers, Shopkick is also helping its retail and brand partners generate significant revenue. The company announced today that it drove more than $110 million in revenue to its partners in 2011, its …
