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- Strong Fundamentals Buoy the Prospects of Emerging Market Sovereign Debt Issuers, Says Market Vectors’ Fran Rodilosso
- Heartbeat Ideas’ Bill Drummy Appointed to Google Healthcare Advisory Board
- Nationstar Mortgage LLC and Nationstar Capital Corporation Commence Registered Exchange Offers for 9.625% Senior Notes Due 2019, 7.875% Senior Notes Due 2020 and 6.500% Senior Notes Due 2021
- Demandbase Named to JMP Securities Hot 100 List of Best Privately Held Software Companies
- Demand Media Promotes Jeff Dossett to Chief Revenue Officer
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Will Zong Make eBay the Future of Retail Commerce?
eBay’s announcement yesterday of its acquisition of Zong is just another interesting example of this e-commerce giant’s grand ambition to change the face of retail as merchants and consumers know it and experience it today. Here’s what I mean.
Why Facebook is Ripe for Commerce
I have always been up for a challenge. I read just last week a quote from someone from Forrester who basically said that anyone who believes Facebook is the commerce frontier is basically smoking something. (Well, what he said was that they had about as much credibility as the guy who bought billboards predicting the end of the world, so sort of the same difference.) And, since I was quoted earlier this year as saying that people who didn’t believe that Facebook was the commerce frontier were basically smoking something (what I said was that they’d be wishing for a Christmas miracle), I thought I’d better do something to redeem myself.
Will 2011 Be The Year of the Opt-In?
As we press into our few remaining days before the holiday, many of us are taking the time to log on to retailer websites (most often at work) to take care of some last-minute shopping. If you're like most consumers, there are a handful of online sites where you shop frequently. You've probably registered with those merchants, giving them your payment, billing, and shipping details tied to a username and password. Maybe for some of those folks for whom finding the right gift is always a challenge, you might log in to an online search site to look for gift ideas, ask for suggestions from friends in your social network site, or you might even respond to an inbound e-mail pitching a new product idea.
PayPal Innovate: X marks the start
Thoughts from Day 1 of PayPal’s developers’ conference
You know you have created something important when it starts to redefine the industry conversation. Over the last few days, it became obvious PayPal is on to something with its approach to embed payments into the fabric of commerce.
The Race to Own Mobile Commerce
Apple and Google are off to the races in owning commerce on the mobile phones as recent transactions and announcements clearly show. Here’s a running recap …
PayPal X’s Global Payments Development Platform
When it comes to using invisible engines to drive innovation and transform industries, PayPal is the first out of the gate in the payments industry and well ahead of the traditional players. This online payments giant claims that “PayPal X is the first and only global payments platform open to third-party developers. Our new set of APIs will offer unlimited possibilities for [developers] to easily monetize your ideas, by providing security and connectivity to the world’s financial systems.” This isn’t the usual hype—whizbangthing.ppt—that we get from payments providers trying to stake a claim. Six months after announcing its open platform more than 25,000 applications have been written to it and a vibrant developer community is are cranking out more apps as you read this.
Can IP Commerce Create the Apps Store for Payments?
There’s no Steve Jobs strutting on the stage, massive consumer buzz, or slick television ads about how there’s an app just for you. But there are some things you’ve probably heard about and a soon-to-be known Denver based company, IPCommerce, is the invisible engine that’s powering them.
The Web Payment Wars Begin with Visa’s Purchase of CyberSource
Visa’s $2 billion purchase of CyberSource, a leading e-payments provider, may mark the beginning of the wars over who will help merchants and consumers transact over the web.
It's Time to Take the Thumb Off of Consumer and Business Borrowing to Get the Economy Moving Again
Revitalizing credit, creating jobs, and stimulating the U.S. economy was the subject of a panel that I participated in last week at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Capital Markets Summit. A lot of people have said that businesses — especially small ones — can't get credit. A big question for the panel was whether that's really true. Here's what I said.
What is Alternative Payment?
The payments landscape is constantly changing with new technology and applications regularly emerging trumpeted as the latest and greatest "Alternative Payment" system. With all of this change it might be helpful if we define "Alternative Payment." Perhaps the challenge is to define "Traditional Payment" and say that everything else is Alternative Payment, but somehow that does not satisfy the question.
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