Walmart holiday mobile app on an iPhone

Consumers Embrace Shopping from Smartphones

| Tim Parry

Consumers have embraced online shopping from their smartphones, boosting their spending by 125% across all product categories, according to the results of MarketLive’s latest quarterly Performance Index report.

What We Learned From Cyber Weekend 2014

| Tim Parry

There’s some there’s widespread panic in Overreactionland, as the online and in-store Thanksgiving weekend sales figures roll in. But it may be much ado about nothing, as Holiday 2014 is beginning to look a lot like Holiday 2013. Here’s a look at what we learned from Cyber Weekend 2014.

Mobile Momentum Moves Through Black Friday

| Tim Parry

Mobile is the new Black Friday sales tool: smartphones drove 34.7% of all Black Friday online traffic, more than double that of tablets, which accounted for 14.6% of all traffic, based on consumer transactions analyzed in real-time by the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark.

Mobile Commerce Sales Surge on Thanksgiving Day

| Tim Parry

Pass the turkey and leave me alone while I find a deal: Mobile commerce sales accounted for 32.3% of all online sales, an increase of 25.4% year-over-year, on Thanksgiving Day, according to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark.

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Bullseye: Target Adds Mobile In-Store Features

| Tim Parry

A week after Walmart announced enhancements to its mobile app to make holiday shopping easier for its in-store customers, Target announced that several new in-store navigation features are now live in its mobile app. Here’s how Target hopes its app overhaul will help its in-store customers.

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11 Main Unveils Mobile Shopping App

| Tim Parry

Alibaba-owned ecommerce marketplace 11 Main has unveiled its new mobile shopping applications for iPhone, iPod touch and Android, and added that an iPad version coming later this year. Here’s how 11 Main says its apps will provide a better mobile user experience.

Organize-It Launches Mobile-friendly Website

| MCM Staff

This mobile site will allow Organize-It to reach a wider audience as well as cater to their customers who prefer to access Organizeit.com from their smart phones or tablets. The user friendly tabs and check out will aid in the mobile browsing experience.