When it comes to gaining new customers and converting sales, there are several features and signals that a website can include make potential buyers more comfortable with purchasing from a website or brand they may not be familiar with or have never purchased from before. From upfront company and return policies to a social media
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While many social media users have become more aware of privacy issues and have made their profiles private, a recent academic study has found that what people ‘Like’ on Facebook can tell a lot about them. Unlike profile information, Facebook ‘Likes’ are less likely to be made private and are then publicly visible to everyone.
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A recent survey finds that many consumers want more opportunities to use mobile wallets in-store while online mobile commerce transactions continue to grow as well. Meanwhile several industry and investment analysts are predicting strong years for companies well positioned in the mobile payments market, along with large growth for mobile payments in general. Read More
Facebook recently announced that they uncovered an incident where fraudsters used compromised email addresses to scrape lists of Facebook friends due to a misconfiguration on their site. The fraudsters would then target phishing emails to the owners of the email addresses purporting to be from a Facebook friend. Read More
Facebook recently formed an agreement with Bango, a mobile payments company based in the UK, to enable purchases directly from the Facebook mobile app or mobile website. Read More
As the world’s largest social network and the second most visited website it should come as no surprise that Facebook sees a lot of phishing and account takeover attempts. Facebook’s Director of Policy Communications, Barry Schnitt, shared some insight on just how large of an issue account takeover attempts are, saying that Facebook stops 600,000
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