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A new AI mobile defense targets e-commerce threats

As mobile shopping becomes even more important for fashion and luxury brands, cyber threats targeting mobile apps are growing smarter. At RSAC 2025, security company Appdome introduced MobileBOT Defense, a new AI-powered system designed to protect mobile apps from a wide range of attacks. Older security tools mainly tried to block brute-force...

Retail

Mobile shopping to hit 19.8 billion pounds this Christmas

With less than ten days to go to Christmas, shoppers are taking to their mobile devices to make their purchases, with experts VoucherCodes.co.uk projecting 19.8 billion pounds in sales. In its latest report mCommerce spending figures, which are sales across digital devices, looking specifically at the Christmas period, are forecast to be 6.3bn...

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Retail

Mobile commerce to become new channel for a 'VIP' shopping experience

London - Mobile commerce is set to become the new channel for luxury, VIP shopping, as millennials continue to shop from their smartphones. However, the UK is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to offering a premium shopping experience via mobile app, according to new research from Worldpay. 37 percent of British consumers prefer...

Retail

Burberry tops ranking for best m-commerce retailer

British heritage brand Burberry has been named the best mobile commerce retailer in the UK in a new report released by e-commerce agency Ampersand. Entitled The Mobile Retail Report , the report ranks the mobile stores of 158 multi - channel UK retailers via a list of criteria created to gauge the overall customer experience and web...

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Retailers lag behind in m-commerce fraud awareness

London - The rise in m-commerce - online shopping via a smartphone, has been widely anticipated and celebrated by fashion retailers around the globe. However, together with the rise of m-commerce also comes the rise of m-commerce fraud. Mobile in general is less secure than standard e-commerce, warns Kount, fraud detection provider, in its 4th...

Design

'Mobile commerce revealed as Achilles’ heel for retailers'

Weak mobile strategies carried out by online retailers could prove to be a weakspot during this year's upcoming holiday season and may negatively impact sales, according to a new study. The 2014 Holiday Retail Audit, published by eBay Enterprise, revealed that mobile commerce continues to be a frail area for online retailers, despite it being...

Design

Mobile commerce becoming more accepted

New research has highlighted a marked rise in the acceptance of mobile commerce amongst shoppers. The 2013 Consumer Retail Survey by information management company Stibo Systems found that the number of consumers who said that they had purchased a product online via a mobile device rose by 19 percent in the last year to reach 59 percent. Three...

Fashion

House of Fraser launches mobile commerce site

An mobile commerce site has just been launched by department store chain House of Fraser. Robin Terrell, Executive Director of Multichannel/International, said: “The development of a mobile version of the House of Fraser website is an important milestone for us. This is part of our multichannel proposition, to ensure that we enable our customers...