Many mobile smartphone users have no particular app or web browsing activity in mind when the unlock their phones to use them, as they often turn to their devices just to kill time, according to a study from mobile content firm Mobile Posse, Phoenix Ma...

Amazon's $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods will greatly accelerate what had been careful steps by the e-commerce giant into the world of brick-and-mortar retail.

Groups representing the retail and banking industries are ramping up their lobbying efforts to do battle over limitations on debit card swipe fees contained in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.

Holiday retailers typically buy their media in August, yet Facebook held a press junket at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York this morning - a week before the Fourth of July - to get the word out about a handful of new, merchant-focused advertising fe...