Tag archive: Commerce

A new report from market analysis firm ABI Research forecasts that mobile commerce will account for $1.6 billion in revenues in 2009 as the proliferation of smartphones and consumers' increasing comfort with mobile transactions translates into phone users making purchased via their handsets. But the so-called “holy grail” of mobile commerce—customers using their mobile phones to make on-site purchases without bugging… Read More

The Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce released its estimate of retail e-commerce sales for the first quarter of this year. It shows a 28% increase over the first quarter of 2003. E-commerce also made gains on standard retail. E-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2004 accounted for 1.9% of total retail sales, up from 1.6% for the same period in 2003. Additionally, DoubleClick Inc. in New York, a provider of online… Read More