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Mobile e-commerce, through both apps and browsers, is surging to new heights, having grown 60% in 2015 to reach $120 billion. Despite the opportunity that this growth presents, too many merchants still offer experiences that are optimized for larger screens and that fail to meet consumers’ expectations for speedy checkout and flexible payment options. Purchases [...]

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M-commerce and mobile payments have gradually been gaining acceptance across the world, particular in developing markets where fixed lines of communication are less available. In Europe, we’ve seen a growing number of direct carrier billing (DCB) integrations, but the majority of these have been surrounding digital goods. Ovum predicts the next step for DCB in [...]

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The total global user base for m-commerce will increase from an estimated 689.99 million users in 2014 to 4.77 billion users in 2019, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Of the three segments covered in the new forecast* – m-commerce, person-to-person (P2P) mobile money transfers, and mobile proximity payments – m-commerce is the biggest in terms [...]

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