The latest Mobile Life report by TNS Global has focused on an interesting aspect of user behaviour in the real world – Showrooming. The term describes the behavior of people who go into stores to test/check out products physically before buying them somewhere else. This behavior threatens physical shops and showrooms as consumers use them but do not generate sales. The report looked at how a...

Homeshop18, one of the e-commerce biggies in the country, has announced the availability its mobile app on the iOS and Android platforms. The app called HS18 on both the app stores is really light at 0.90 MB.  We checked out the phone on Android and were pretty impressed with it. The app has multiple other functionalities.  You can shop now on your smartphone and also watch the Homeshop18 channel...

Homeshop18 has now introduced India’s first virtual mobile aided shopping experience at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport. The e-commerce company has set up a virtual wall at Terminal 3 on the domestic side of the airport. The virtual wall shows a whole range of premium products like electronics, clothing & accessories and more. Passengers who have time to kill at the terminal can quickly...

Much has been said and done about the rise of ecommerce in the country. India, like every developing nation that undergoes e-revolution or the rise of connected devices has witnessed the upsurge of consumer confidence in internet based shopping. This rise was accentuated recently by the smartphone revolution and handheld devices that connect to the internet like tablets and PDAs. Buzzcity released...

eBay India has just announced the results of a consumer survey which they undertook to get a deeper understanding of Indian mobile users and their mobile commerce usage during the festivals. The survey polled over 2500 eBay India users during this month. The survey audience seems rather one-sided when you consider that around 92% of the respondents were male! I am sure women are also using their phones...

Square might have been the first one to develop mobile payment processing for retailers but it will definitely not be the only one this year. Both PayPal and Groupon have jumped on the mobile payment idea and are rolling out their equivalents soon. PayPal had already announced its PayPal Here offering more than a month ago. Now, the company has made deals with some leading retailers which would allow...

Mobile Internet is growing heavily in India due to the proliferation of smartphones and Internet enabled feature phones. You can say that most of the web access, people have in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities is via their phones. The Medium of Usage for accessing the Internet has undergone a sudden change over the last few years. We have almost 850 million mobile subscribers in India but we still do put...

TimesofMoney’s DirecPay will offer single stage payment services for cloud e-commerce company Power Stores. Power Stores is a ‘Made In India’ endeavor that is built to help Indian retailers overcome their online inhibitions. The company claims to understand the needs, requirements, challenges and obstacles faced by Indian companies who want to explore the online retailing world, but are intimidated...

After being the first mobile company to bring M-commerce to India, Loop Mobile has added Person-To-Person Transfer as a feature to its Virtual Wallet. Loop Mobile’s customers will now be able to send & receive money instantly using their mobile phones as tools. The facility has been introduced in association with ZipCash. Earlier, users could easily pay for electricity bill, prepaid recharges,...

Airtel’s M-commerce service Airtel Money has already been launched nationally and now Airtel has announced that they will be tying up with banks to provide cash withdrawal services without having to go to the ATM or the bank branch. They are currently in talks with these banks to finalize the offering. The names of these banks were not publicly released. This service will let Bharti’s retail and...