9 posts and columns on Checkout

Online Commerce Trend: More Spending, Smaller Purchases

in Commerce on January 20 at 12:22 pm PT

The average checkout size is shrinking, even though more people spent more money online. Why? Here are three reasons.
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VeriFone Willing to Shell Out $1 Billion Annually to Grow Payments Network

in Commerce on August 23, 2011 at 3:57 pm PT

As the largest maker of cash registers and other payment processing devices, VeriFone is willing to spend up to $1 billion a year on acquisitions to stay on top.
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Who Will Win at Mobile Payments? Google or Square?

in Commerce on May 26, 2011 at 7:04 pm PT

As it becomes clearer that we will be moving away from cash and increasingly toward some form of mobile payments, the big question is who will be the industry leaders. After Google and Square made their respective announcements this week, do either of them have a chance?
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Google Confirms That Groupon COO Will Be Google's Margo Georgiadis

in News on April 21, 2011 at 11:14 am PT

Margo Georgiadis, VP of Global Sales Operations at Google, will be COO of Groupon, Google confirmed. She is currently located in Chicago, where the social buying site is headquartered. Besides COO, BoomTown will officially bestow the title of “Chief Cat Wrangler” on her in recognition of the massive organizational job ahead of her at the notoriously chaotic start-up.

Google's Improving the Android Market–Finally

in Commerce on December 23, 2010 at 1:55 pm PT

Better late than never. Google’s just now starting to show interest in the Android Market, with two recent upgrades that will help it compete against the iPhone App Store (although it still has a long way to go).

TrialPay Brings Advertising to the Online Checkout Line

in Commerce on December 15, 2010 at 5:55 am PT

Here’s a company that is bringing the concept of enticing shoppers with the latest tabloid magazine, a pack of gum or a Snickers bar from the line at the grocery store to the online checkout world.

Palm, Qualcomm Chiefs Weigh Wireless Future

in Mobile on November 30, 2010 at 6:32 pm PT

Palm-CEO-turned-HP-exec Jon Rubinstein and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs faced off with Kara Swisher of All Things Digital at a Churchill Club event Tuesday night in an entertaining discussion on the future of mobile tech. Here’s my liveblog of the event.

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.

Ben Ling Lands (Back) at Google–This Time, at YouTube

in News on August 14, 2008 at 12:06 pm PT

Ben Ling–the high-profile Facebook platform exec who came from Google less than a year ago and then up and left the social-networking site earlier this week–is heading back to Google, this time taking a job leading monetization efforts at YouTube, according to sources. On Tuesday, it was reported here that Ling was leaving his job at Facebook, where he has been director of platform product marketing. It is a move that will surely spur many to rev up the Facebook-versus-Google stories, given that several Google execs have been recruited by Facebook over the last year. Apparently, the Empire does strike back.