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Mobile Web is retail?s big winner and loser for holiday shopping - Mobile Commerce Daily

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Mobile Web is retail?s big winner and loser for holiday shopping
While holiday shoppers resoundingly voted for the convenience of the mobile Web during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the surge in traffic is tasking retailers? sites, with outages and slowdowns experienced by Best Buy, Neiman Marcus, Gamestop and J. Crew and others.
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Thanksgiving weekend shows highest numbers yet for mobile sales
As retailers? use of mobile becomes more advanced, consumers are faced with less need to shop in-store, causing an unprecedented number to skip the lines and opt for online, as shown from this past weekend.
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Salvation Army leverages bitcoins and text-to-give to drive holiday donations
Salvation Army is leveraging social media, a text-to-give option on mobile devices and bitcoin digital currencies to drive more holiday donations for its annual Red Kettle Campaign that raises financial support for the international charitable company?s various local causes.
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Proximity payment is fastest-growing segment of mobile payments: report
Growth in proximity payments will outpace other transactions over the next five years as mobile commerce explodes, according to a new Juniper Research report.
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Girl Scouts? Digital Cookie to boost mobile sales
The Girl Scouts of the United States has introduced Digital Cookie, a new digital platform that reimagines how the organization sells cookies while teaching young saleswomen about online marketing, mobile application usage and ecommerce.
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