Vantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV), a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions of all sizes, and Paydiant, a provider of a cloud-based mobile payment and offer redemption platforms, today announced the availability of Vantiv Mobile Wallet, a contactless mobile wallet and payment platform that will enable merchants and financial institutions to quickly deploy mobile payment and ad/offer campaigns for their customers.  

Understanding that today's businesses require multiple vehicles for communication, Phone.com has expanded the features available via its Virtual Office cloud-based business phone services to include the Communicator "softphone." The Communicator is a Windows and Mac OS X application that is installed on a computer and emulates a traditional phone dialer.

As the holiday shopping period approaches, several new studies point to the fact that small and medium-sized U.S. businesses (SMBs) remain woefully unprepared to attract and engage customers via their mobile devices. An SMB DigitalScape study released by vSplash learned that 98% of SMBs still do not have mobile-optimized sites. The study was based on an analysis of two million small business websites.