Placed Analytics has published a blog post showing which retailers had the most in-store visits during the holiday season. Placed can’t track sales, but its mobile-phone-derived location data can give a glimpse into who’s attracting the most physical shoppers, and when. Read more »
Facebook’s Gifts platform will become available to all users in the United States beginning Tuesday, and in addition to content from iTunes, Starbucks, and a variety of retailers, a variety of wines will be available for purchase on the site as well. Read more »
Hotels, airlines and grocery stores already link everything imaginable to their loyalty card programs. Why not 4G, as well? Sprint wants to make it easy for the hospitality and retail industries to become mini-virtual operators renting and selling mobile data modems to their customers. Read more »
The mobile payment market is getting even more crowded thanks to a big play by a consortium of retailers including Target, Walmart, Sears and others who are creating their own mobile wallet. The move will give them a chance to save costs and protect their data. Read more »
Geo-location check-in services such as Foursquare are super trendy in tech and new media circles. But will they catch on with mainstream audiences enough to make big retailers pay attention? A new market research study indicates that the answer may be no. Read more »
Brightcove is grabbing more business in Japan and in the e-commerce segment, with a deal to enable video uploads and management for Rakuten, the largest e-commerce site in Japan. The deal will give Brightcove much wider exposure in Japan and elsewhere, as Rakuten is one of […] Read more »
Online retailer Zappos will be making a big push into original online video next year. The company, which was acquired by Amazon earlier this year, will be upping the number of product videos it makes to 50,000 next year, from the still-impressive 8,500 it made this […] Read more »
