While the announcements from Alibaba were technically made on different days, within a 12-hour period on the evening of July 7 to the morning of July 8, the eCommerce giant released the news about two major investments in the eCommerce…

Microsoft is hoping the age of the smartphone is over, and it’s almost certainly wrong. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.wired.com

Dive Brief:Retailers’ social media activity is far better than their websites or search engines at getting shoppers to convert or try new things, according to a report from digital marketing vendor Epsilon Data Management LLC.  For its “Digital Shopping Tool Impact…

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Content marketing is a great way to develop customer relationships, increase brand awareness and target your audience with precision. You’ve given it a go for a while, with some decent results. Now what? You know by now that content marketing isn’t…

Offering up its latest quarterly report on the “Credit Card Landscape,” this time around for the second quarter of 2015, CardHub stated that rates were “fairly Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Capital One Bank has commenced a long-term agreement with Vantiv, the payment processing company. Under the terms of the agreement, which was announced on Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

  What worries consumers more – having their house robbed or having their financial information compromised? The answer to that, along with fresh new Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Symantec warns in a report published yesterday (July 8) that a new group of criminal hackers — dubbed the “Morpho” group — is driven by quick financial gains, Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

  Hitesh Anand, VP of Commerce Enablement & Mobile, Verifone Matt Barr, Group Head for Emerging Payments in the U.S., MasterCard Will Graylin, Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com