This week’s Weekly Wire features Visa’s investment in Square, App Annie’s App Forecast, and Foursquare expanding into food and alcohol delivery.
On-Demand
Foursquare expands food and alcohol delivery
Uber and Airbnb are calling on EU leaders to unite on the sharing economy
Zemcar, the kid-friendly Uber, to launch in Boston
Payments
Omni-channel shoppers’ pros and cons of mobile commerce (Study)
Retail’s (second) favorite holiday
Visa details stake in payments startup Square
Mobile Apps
PayPal Commerce matches Stripe with PayPal’s own native shopping toolkit for apps
The app economy could double to $101B by 2020
Winners of the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards