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Trends Analysis: The State of Mobile Payment

ESW

Consumers used physical currency in just over one quarter (26%) of transactions in 2018, according to research by the Federal Reserve. Debit and credit cards are now the most popular choice for consumers, but even these trusted payment methods are under threat. Electronic and mobile payment solutions are proliferating.

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How online retailers can profit from Singles’ Day and the global shopping festival

GetElastic

the world’s biggest retail event, three times larger than Cyber Monday 2018, which at $7.9 billion was a new US record for online sales in a single day. [2]. Customers from around the world can shop on Alibaba Group websites and retailers worldwide are jumping on the 11.11 million) in sales during the 2018 event. [3].

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Deloitte Predicts Exceptionally Strong Sales for the 2018 Holidays

ChannelAdvisor

This blog post is part of our 2018 Holiday Planning series. Last year, Deloitte’s annual holiday shopping survey made big waves when researchers predicted, for the first time ever, that more shopping would be online than in-store. Researchers are expecting e-commerce sales to rise between 17% and 22% during the 2018 holiday season.

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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

BigCommerce

The Evolution of Mobile Payments: A brief history of mobile payments, according to TechCrunch : 1983: David Chaum, an American cryptographer, starts work on creating digital cash by inventing “the blinding formula, which is an extension of the RSA algorithm still used in the web’s encryption.” 2008: Bitcoin is invented.?.

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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

BigCommerce

1992 Book Stacks Unlimited launches as one of the first online marketplaces for books. 1994 Netscape launches Netscape Navigator, an early web browser, making it easier for users to browse online. 1998 PayPal launches as an online payment system. 2000 Google launches AdWords as an online search advertising tool.

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Best Retail POS Systems for 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

It’s worth noting, however, that while locally-based retail POS systems have been ruling all along, cloud-based retail POS systems are seemingly the future. 60% of the newly adopted retail POS systems in 2018 were cloud-based, and the trend has been growing quite exponentially since. Mobile payments.

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Best POS Systems for Retail 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

It’s worth noting, however, that while locally-based retail POS systems have been ruling all along, cloud-based retail POS systems are seemingly the future. 60% of the newly adopted retail POS systems in 2018 were cloud-based, and the trend has been growing quite exponentially since. Mobile payments.

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