Business to Business

Eighty-five percent of terminals shipped worldwide will be equipped to process contactless payments in 2016, according to a recent study by ABI Research.

LocalEdge is partnering with MoFuse to roll out an expected 2,500 mobile sites for small businesses by the end of this year.

Ohio-based bookstore Duttenhofer’s Books and New York restaurant Piada are using mobile customer loyalty cards to push in-store traffic via the Stampt application.

Shopping application shopkick is partnering with Citi Ventures to drive in-store shopping at small businesses.

Small business owners are seeing the magnitude of having a mobile presence, with 69 percent saying that it is more important than ever for companies to be accessible via handsets, according to a Manta study.

Paypal has updated its mobile 2011 projection to $3 billion – marking the third time it has had to change its mobile predictions for this year.

EBay Inc.-owned PayPal has acquired mobile payments start-up Fig Card to further its strategy of being at the center of the new mobile-focused retail landscape and driving innovation in mobile payments.

The consumer craze for daily deal services such as LivingSocial and Groupon has given entrepreneurs new hope in marketing to small businesses.

NEW YORK – An NRG exec said his company tapped SAP AG to enhance its customer relationship management platform by adding mobile and social elements to its direct-to-consumer and business-to-business initiatives.

Widespread adoption of mobile payments via near field communication is still at least two years away, according to a global survey by Sybase 365.