If you’ve been out to eat some time during the past year, chances are you’ve scanned a QR code to browse the menu and place an order. Maybe while you’re on the restaurant’s website the catering deals ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This time last year, QR codes were a novelty piece of technology in the US, mostly used as an advertising and marketing tool. But the black and ...

Whether used for window shopping, checking product ratings or searching for sales, smartphones are society’s latest shopping companion. They allow on-the-go consumers to stay plugged into the retail ...

The InstantScan service from 1App attempts to provide a solution for marketers hoping to drive app downloads by accessing a cloud-based mobile operating system called OneOS, which turns apps into ...

The online payments company wants you to use its mobile payment app at any retail store, so it plans to use a generated code that is acceptable just about everywhere. Donna Tam covers Amazon and other ...

Correction: A previous version of this story did not make it clear that 1App, and not Starbucks, ran the QR code test. The InstantScan service from 1App attempts to provide a solution for marketers ...