Description: The data has been tallied and the results are in: e-commerce saw growth across all major shopping days during the holiday season in 2012. Source: Mashable Date: January 3rd, 2013 U.S. consumers spent $42.3 billion online during the holiday season, the first time online spending has ever topped $40 billion for that time period, according to… Read more »
Posts Categorized: e-payment
Obama and Romney Campaigns Adopt Square for Funding
Description: Social media was a game-changing technology that helped alter the course of the 2008 presidential election. In 2012, mobile payments could be the transformational technology, as millions of political supporters are given the ability to collect money on smartphones for candidates. Source: nytimes.com Date: Jan 30, 2012 On Monday, President Obama’s re-election campaign announced that… Read more »
No Cards, No Cash. Just a Phone.
Description: Plenty of companies would love to get their hands on our wallets. But Google wants to go one step further: it wants to be our wallets. Source: NYT.com. Date: Sept 21, 2011 Its new phone software, called Google Wallet, is intended to replace the credit cards in our actual wallets. It does sound pretty… Read more »
Cloud Computing May be a Shot in the Arm our Economy Needs
Description: Economists and pundits have long feared the emergence of what they called “hollow corporations,” or businesses that don’t actually produce actual goods or services themselves, but instead act as brokers or intermediaries relying on networks of suppliers and partners. Source: Forbes .com. Date: Sept 19, 2011 Where are these services coming from? Look to… Read more »
Ticketmaster’s CEO Dishes on New Interactive Seat Maps
Description: We’re one of the few ecommerce companies that gets to connect with each of ourcustomers in person. They tell us where they will be at a given date and time, down to the exact seat location. So enhancing the event with geosocial is a cool part of the evolution of the experience and part… Read more »
Swiping Is the Easy Part
Description: Instead of swiping a plastic card at the checkout counter, consumers would merely wave their phones. Source: NYTimes.com Date: March 23, 2011 Mobile phone carriers, banks, credit card issuers, payment networks and technology companies are all vying to control these wallets. But first, they need to sort out what role each will play and how each… Read more »
Credit Card Transactions for Everyone
Description: New smartphone applications let almost anyone take payments electronically Source: Cnn.com Date: March 1, 2011 Questions for discussion: What are the implications for small business as a result of the increase of mobile payments? What industries and application can you predeict will beneifit from this technology?
Publishers of digital content face uphill battle
Description: The publishing industry has not been having fun in the last few years. Newspapers, magazines and books were hurt by competition from the Internet and the changes caused by consumers choosing digital content rather than traditional ink on paper. Source: Globe&Mail.com Date: Feb 25, 2011 Will Apple or Google (or someone else) end up… Read more »
Apple rolls out subscription service
Description: Paying for your morning coffee and newspaper by swiping your mobile phone instead of fumbling for cash or debit card could be just around the corner. Source: Globeandmail.com Date: Feb 15 , 2011 Apple Inc. is launching a long-awaited subscription service for magazines, newspapers, videos and music bought through its iTunes App Store. The plan calls… Read more »
Telcos battle tech, bank titans for mobile payments
Description: Paying for your morning coffee and newspaper by swiping your mobile phone instead of fumbling for cash or debit card could be just around the corner. Source: Globeandmail.com Date: Feb 14 , 2011 The telecom companies have suffered for years from the “dumb-pipe” phenomenon whereby operators spend billions building the networks on which data… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
R. Kelly Rainer, Casey G. Cegielski, Ingrid Splettstoesser-Hogeterp, Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez
ISBN: 978-1-119-13385-8
August 2015, © 2016
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