All PayPal articles – Page 8
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AnalysisAnalysis: Highlights from Retail Week’s free Innovation Review report
From mannequins that can track the age, race and sex of retail customers, to fingerprint imaging that can activate bank cards, technological innovations are transforming the retail environment.
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OpinionComment: Amazon drones are not just pie in the sky
An inspired vision of the future for online delivery or an extravagant PR stunt designed to coincide with Cyber Monday?
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OpinionComment: British retail leads the world in mobile and online shopping this Christmas
PayPal’s recent global Holiday Shopping Study found that almost 90% of Britons will use their mobile devices or purchase online to do a slice of their Christmas shopping this year. This is a higher proportion than most countries and reflects the way UK consumers are changing the way they shop.
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AnalysisRetail Week Live: Flying Stores, Philip Clarke and a Big Cheese
Next year’s Retail Week Live will be bigger and better than ever. Here are just a few of the highlights and some of the speakers who will be helping to make the 2014 event our best yet.
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AnalysisInnovation: Ebay and Westfield launch digital shopfronts
Ebay and Westfield Labs have teamed up in the US to launch three digital storefronts for the Christmas season.
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OpinionComment: A very merry mobile Christmas and what that means for retailers in-store
It’s interesting to see that since our last post, John Lewis is predicting that 2013 will be the first “mobile Christmas”, when sales on smartphones and tablets are expected to overtake sales on desktops on Christmas Day.
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OpinionComment: Digital advisory boards could prove vital in 2014
Only Thomas Cook among the FTSE 250 have taken the plunge in appointing a digital advisory board (DAB) citing its digital strategy as a key element of its turnaround.
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OpinionComment: Christmas starts with a bang, but online shopping is the one to watch
Christmas has started with another helping of good news for retailers. Sales are expected to be the best since pre-crisis levels of 2007 with online sales forecast to reach £11.6bn this quarter, a 12% increase year on year.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Which multichannel gadgetry really presses shoppers' buttons?
Multichannel gadgetry is high on retailers’ investment agenda. Sarah Butler investigates which technologies are genuinely improving the customer experience and which are detracting from it.
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AnalysisAnalysis: PayPal and Apple ramp up the mobile payments race
Apple and PayPal have both unveiled big mobile developments in the past fortnight. Rebecca Thomson surveys the rapidly shifting mobile payment landscape.
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OpinionAnalysis: Why fingerprinting could change the direction of payments
By building fingerprinting technology into its new phone, Apple has moved the goalposts in the way that it usually does - with thought and care, but without giving a final answer.
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OpinionComment: With biometrics, Apple is laying the foundations of a mobile payment behemoth
In the aftermath of the latest iPhone launch it’s easy to say that Apple is passing on mobile payments yet again, while NFC remains highly conspicuous by its absence.
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AnalysisAnalysis: What have been the biggest retail tech launches of 2013?
The pace of change in the multichannel arena is more rapid than ever before. Laura Heywood assesses the biggest retail technology roll-outs of the past six months.
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OpinionBlog: Momentum is building around Bluetooth Low Energy
It has so far been unclear which technology will win the mobile payment race, but this week Paypal’s Beacon announcement gave a boost to Bluetooth Low Energy’s chances.
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NewsPayPal invites developers to generate Beacon ideas for hands-free payment
PayPal is allowing external developers access to its in-store payments programming interface in a bid to generate clever ideas around its new Beacon service.
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NewsMorrisons and Argos to use consumers' bank data to launch targeted offers
Retailers including Morrisons, Argos and Pets at Home have signed up to a service that targets offers based on consumers’ bank data.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Planning for unforeseen problems this Christmas
Christmas is a time when retailers need to dazzle, but problems can arise unexpectedly. Laura Heywood reports on
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Walmart has developed its mobile Scan and Go service
One of the many advantages of mobile payment is significantly expanding CRM reach, getting to know about a far greater percentage of all of a shopper’s purchases. Nowhere is this more attractive than with Walmart, which has never had (and still doesn’t) a traditional CRM.
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NewsPayPal app enables shoppers to pay with profile picture
Shoppers across the UK may soon be able to pay for goods using their name and profile picture, through online payment service PayPal.
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Blog: Spending a day in a cashless, cardless world
Not a day goes by without at least one email appearing in my inbox telling me about a new revolution in the world of payments.