Key mobile trends to monitor include an increase in hybrid apps for the enterprise, more artificial intelligence, and an explosion of VR and AR apps. 2016 proved to be an interesting year for mobile. On one hand, smartphone users are downloading fewer and fewer
Virtual reality, new phones, and selfie payments stole the show at Mobile World Congress With almost 100,000 attendees from 200 countries, Mobile World Congress is the largest and arguably the most influential mobile technology event in the world. Held in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress is
Assess your business, determine your goals and objectives, understand your customers, decide on the best mobile payments solution for their needs, then educate your customers and employees As a retailer, you want to be able to provide your customers with not only great products, but
Part of the Thorn Technologies team took a trip to the Big Apple last week to attend the Mobile Marketing Association’s (MMA) New York Forum. Like all of the MMA conferences, this was a super educational event where we learned about the latest mobile technologies
The adoption of smartphones in the U.S. continues to grow at a 36% clip. Mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger that bypass the text messaging capabilities of mobile carriers continue to gain popularity. And more and more people are using their smartphones
In our last blog post, we talked about the rise of mobile social commerce and highlighted the primary activities occurring in the space today: social sharing, location-based deals, reviews, and involvement of payment providers in the ecosystem. But what’s going to happen next and what
The convergence of three technology trends – mobile, social, and commerce – is changing how we become aware of, learn about, and buy products. We wrote a blog post about how mobile commerce is changing the way we shop and highlighted how retailers engage consumers
This holiday season, it’s likely that your shopping experiences will be different than ever before, thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and tablets. The number of mobile shoppers is increasing, as is the amount of shopping these shoppers do via mobile. Not surprisingly, Amazon has
