Now more than just reaching out to the masses with a hit and miss marketing campaign, the integration of social media combined with local merchants and mobile marketing tools, better known as SoLoMo,  has made it possible for merchants to focus their efforts on reaching the consumers that will matter most to their business. There [...]

We’ve talked a lot at DDM this past year about new burgeoning mobile payment solutions and the popularity of mobile loyalty programs. The amazing growth of both of these niche industries shows that consumers are more than ready and willing to embrace mobile as their preferred method of shopping. But are retailers missing an obvious [...]

It’s all about mobile commerce this holiday shopping season and it looks like this year could prove to be a record breaker for many big retailers. eBay and its online payment service, PayPal have reported record numbers of mobile shoppers with December 9 transactions made via smartphones up 133 percent over last year’s highest volume [...]

Who uses their cell phone to actually make phone calls anymore? According to a study by email intelligence solutions provider, Return Path, users now spend significantly more time reading email, taking pictures and updating their Facebook accounts than they do using their phone for its originally intended purpose, talking. And this move toward a more [...]

Mobile phones are a big part of daily life in India. In a recent article on NextBigWhat, it was said that the number of Indians using mobile phones was greater than those that had access to toilets. So it’s no wonder that mobile commerce would also take off in the world’s second most populous country. [...]

When all is said and done, we’ll be looking back at 2012 as the year that mobile commerce exploded onto the scene. According to Internet Retailer mobile commerce will double this year and show continued growth in 2013. Retailers are looking to cash in on the new m-commerce craze and many plan to take steps [...]

According to recent research by London-based market research firm, Mintel, Brits are quickly becoming addicted to mobile commerce. Nearly two thirds or 62 percent of all Brits own a smartphone and almost half of those use their mobile device to shop or make purchases. Topping the list of the most popular mobile purchases is music [...]

One King’s Lane, a flash sales site for all things home décor announced this week that it has raised $50 million in series D funding. This latest round which brings the total raised to $117 million was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Greylock Partners, Tiger Global [...]

Sri Lanka’s largest telecommunications company, Dialog Axiata PLC has purchased 26 percent of one of that country’s leading daily deal providers, Anything.lk for US$1.59 million from venture capital firm, Ardent Capital.  The investment is said to value the company at approximately US$6.1 million. In a press release from Dialog, the company stated that the joint [...]

It looks like more jobs have hit the cutting room floor in Australia’s daily deal industry. Last week, Spreets eliminated most of its sales staff as part of a plan to move to an affiliate model, aggregating deals from other providers. No information was given on the exact number of job cuts This news follows [...]