Chili’s Grill & Bar is making it easier for customers to enjoy its menu offerings with a new mobile application.

Coffee Table, a retail catalog aggregate app for iPad, is the latest mobile service to offer holiday shoppers special incentives as a way to drive adoption.

PayPal is testing an NFC mobile payments application at two stores in Sweden while it continues to look at other ways to provide access to its payments services.

Weight Watchers has introduced a bar code scanner mobile application to help grocery shoppers make more informed shopping choices and reach their weight loss goals.

Retailers such as Staples, Victoria’s Secret, Ikea and others are teaming up with the new Savvy payment protection app to offer shoppers the best prices before and after they make a purchase.

Retailers are unhappy with Amazon’s price check app because it has the potential to eat into their margins and even funnel off sales.

Amazon.com wants to make it easy for children and their parents to create holiday wish lists that can be shared with a new app for Kindle Fire and iPad.

Brands and marketers are taking note that mobile is a key ingredient in driving in-store traffic and retail sales. It is no surprise that companies are building apps specifically for Black Friday to provide consumers with another purchasing medium.

Raley’s supermarkets is leveraging a customized version of the Hello Vino mobile application to help shoppers select the right wine and receive instant savings.

Car dealerships Sport Durst, Ben Mynatt Auto Group in Concord and New Port Richey Hyundai are using the new MyMobileDealer mobile application to support their sales efforts and provide a way to send targeted messages to customers.