Written By Karen Webster

Karen Webster is one of the world’s leading experts on emerging payments and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in the payments and commerce space. As the CEO of Market Platform Dynamics, she works extensively with the most innovative players in the payments, financial services, mobile, B2B, digital media and technology sectors to identify, ignite and monetize innovation. Karen also serves on the boards of a number of emerging companies, helping innovators develop and implement business strategies that drive market adoption for their products and services. Karen is also an entrepreneur herself, who has successfully founded and launched several new ventures in the loyalty, on-line media, and social networking sectors, including PYMNTS.com.

Retail
What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers

In January 1950, William Applebaum published a piece in the Journal of Marketing about the...

Retail
What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

Accomplished public intellectual and post-Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith was well-known for four things....

Subscription Commerce
What The Book Of The Month Club Can Teach Retailers...

Thousands of little brown boxes of books, delivered by the post office all over...

Singapore Banks Mull Facebook Access
Facebook
Facebook: Too Big To Govern?

In December of 2008, Lindsay Ronson tried to log into her Facebook account with...

bitcoin
Bitcoin
Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

Two innovators approached a well-heeled investor asking for money. Their sales pitch was very...

Commerce
Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?

Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old....

Reinventing Omnicommerce
Omnicommerce
Does Amazon Plus Kohl’s Equal Retail’s Future?

Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Robert Frost was famous for using rural country metaphors when...

Regulation
Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

Some of the most memorable television commercials of the 1970s and 1980s were those...