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Nearly half (46%) of all e-commerce market revenue in Australia last year was transacted through mobile devices, the tech analyst firm Telsyte says, with what it calls the m-commerce market being worth $15.2 billion in 2018, compared to $12.0 billion in 2017.

Mobile commerce around the world is expected to grow even faster than e-commerce this year, according to a new report which forecasts that large markets in the Asia Pacific region like China, Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia will see high growth in m-commerce, along with the UK.

Mobile payments globally will rocket to US$1 trillion in value by 2017, up from an estimated $500 million this year.

The next five years will see a massive explosion in worldwide advertising spending on mobile devices.

Mobile phone transactions are taking off, with Australians now four times more likely to use mobile phones for payments and banking services today than in 2010, according to new research.

The university-focussed Co-op bookshop chain has teamed up with PayPal to enable students to buy textbooks from their smartphones by scanning QR codes in its store windows, and have the books delivered, instead of queuing in store.

The university-focussed Co-op bookshop chain has teamed up with PayPal to enable students to buy textbooks from their smartphones by scanning QR codes in its store windows, and have the books delivered, instead of queuing in store.

According to the ACMA, the growing popularity of smartphones and mobile applications has the potential to disrupt existing business models by allowing consumers to bypass established service providers.

There are some 8.6m Australians using social networks but only 18 percent of Internet connected SMEs in Australia use some form of social media in their business operations.

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services today announced its strategic alliance with the Qtel Group, a leading provider of telecommunications services. Sybase 365 will provide its leading mobile wallet (mWallet) software with comprehensive solutions support, delivering one of the most advanced mobile commerce services in the world.

The Commonwealth Bank will launch tomorrow, 25 October, what it says will be "a world-first mobile app that marks a significant change to the way their customers can pay [and that] will combine a number of payment types."

The number of Australians using their mobiles to make payments to online retailers has risen sharply, with more than 1,000 making payments every hour from their mobile phones through PayPal, and the value of payments forecast to more than quadruple this year compared with last year.

According to OSS/BSS supplier Amdocs, mobile operators in Asia Pacific have a chance to lead the mobile value added services market with their web portals and related m-commerce services, in contrast to Europe and the USA where the battle has already been lost to over-the-top players like Google, Amazon and Apple.

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, today announced it has been selected by Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL), one of Bangladesh's largest banks, for its mobile banking platform.

Sybase, Inc, an SAP company (NYSE: SAP) and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced that the company has appointed John J. Sims as president of its mobile services business - Sybase 365, effective July 1.

Sybase 365 , a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, has unveiled the inaugural edition of its annual Sybase® mCommerce Guide 2011 . A compilation of articles by Sybase executives, partners, and industry analysts, the guide examines the transformation of commerce via the fourth screen - the mobile device. The comprehensive guide explores global market opportunities for financial institutions, enterprise and mobile operators through the viewpoints of those who are deeply involved in successful executions of various mCommerce strategies that are transforming lives both in developed and emerging economies.

New mCommerce ecosystem a first for the retail sector, the Smartphone based application runs on the Apple iPhone and will be available on Google Android and Blackberry shortly.