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Walmart.com Lets You Pay With Cash When Shopping Online

in Commerce on April 26 at 3:00 am PT

Walmart.com is launching today “Pay with Cash,” a new feature that enables users to place orders online and then pay for them at a nearby Walmart.
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Amazon Will Pay Shoppers $5 to Walk Out of Stores Empty-Handed

in Commerce on December 6, 2011 at 9:04 am PT

If retailers weren’t terrified of Amazon before, the online giant’s move to pay customers up to $5 to shop on their mobile phone while in a physical store should do the trick.
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Mobile Marketer Augme Buys Bar Code Start-Up Jagtag

in Media on July 20, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Mobile marketing company Augme Technologies has bought Jagtag, a startup that specializes in bar codes and “QR codes.” That’s the technology that creates little pieces of visual shorthand that phone users can photograph and send to a marketer in exchange for content; it’s an idea that some, but not all, mobile ad folks have been interested in for years. Augme will pay $5.5 million for Jagtag, and almost all of the payment will come via Augme stock, which trades on the OTC Bulletin Board. Jagtag had previously raised $3.6 million.

Starbucks Serves Up Mobile Payments to Millions of Android Users

in Commerce on June 15, 2011 at 10:28 am PT

Following the early success of its iPhone application, Starbucks has released an Android application that lets users pay for their extra hot Vente Caramel Macchiato or Tall Iced Mocha Frappuccino with their phone.
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Shopkick Checks In With Target–CEO Cyriac Roeding Talks About Social Shopping

in News on November 16, 2010 at 10:28 am PT

The idea of being rewarded for being a consumer is getting a lot of heat of late, as retailers seek to take advantage of the fast-moving social phenom among consumers, especially young ones. Thus, a wide range of efforts to combine location-based mobile apps with purchasing, both online and offline. Today, another company in the space, shopkick, announced it had added another store–Minneapolis-based Target–to its list of retailers deploying its platform and mobile app that gives you points for simply walking in a store.

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Starbucks' Pay-By-App Test Grinds Away

in News on October 25, 2010 at 11:13 am PT

Starbucks said today it was expanding its mobile-payment testing grounds to include 300 company-owned stores in the NYC-Long Island area. The system uses an app version of the Starbucks Card. The app displays a barcode that is read by the scanner at check-out. Testing of the app (available for the iPhone, the iPod touch and certain BlackBerrys) began late last year in Starbucks locations inside Target stores and a few outlets in Seattle and Northern California.

EBay Now Equipped With Frickin’ RedLasers

in Mobile on June 23, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT

EBay CEO John Donahoe says that a few years from now we’ll be making more purchases with our cellphones than from our wallets. And the company’s sales do seem to bear that out. At our D8 conference, Donahoe said eBay’s iPhone app was responsible for $600 million in sales last year. So the company’s acquisition today of RedLaser makes good sense.

Amazon Remembers Forgets Barcode Scanner

in News on December 3, 2008 at 10:07 am PT

There’s a new beachhead in Amazon’s campaign to commandeer sales from competing retailers: Apple’s iPhone. This morning the retailer uncrated Amazon Mobile, an iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows users to browse its wares and those of associated retailers like Target and Macy’s. The app supports Amazon’s standard features as well as an intriguing, but totally cumbersome, new one.