Ready ... Set ... Wait! Discover: China's Commerce Catalyst 2012 will go in the payments history books as the...
Discover: China's Commerce Catalyst Emerging Payments Goes To Washington December 17, 2012 The Harris Poll released last week on...
Emerging Payments Goes To Washington If It Ain't Broke, Don't MCX It December 12, 2012 One small step for...
If It Ain't Broke, Don't MCX It Groundhog Day At Google Wallet December 3, 2012 I was invited to keynote a closed-door...
Mobile And Payments: Two Peas In A Pod Apple and NFC: Will They Or Won't They? October 26, 2012 I had the...
Ex-Apple exec Ron Johnson unveiled his vision for the transformation of JC Penney and retail last week in Dallas which included, among...
I have a confession. I like to study vintage advertising. I know, it probably sounds weird in this day of digital and...
The payments industry barely had time to catch its breath from the Square/Starbucks news last week when the other payments shoe dropped...
The news that Mickey D’s now accepts PayPal in 30 locations in France got the Internet buzzing yesterday. Most of the stories...
So much for the dog days of summer! The Starbucks/Square wallet news turned an unusually hot summer (both temperatures and payments news)...
Just in time for the 22nd anniversary of the Jane’s Addiction farewell tour, otherwise known as Lollapalooza, Google made news with some...
All of the discussion about Facebook’s lousy earnings last week brought to mind a little story about platforms that I wanted to...
LevelUp made news about a week ago when it announced that it was eliminating interchange fees for its merchant customers. Instead, LevelUp...
Before about a month or so ago, whenever wallabies came up in any conversation, it was in the context of those cute...
No, I’m not talking about the creepy Natalie Portman movie by the same name, but the concept that describes a surprise event,...
We are about two weeks away from opening the voting on the 2012 PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards. The field that we have sent...
Mark Twain reminded us that there are three kinds of lies: “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” That famous adage, as most of...
Ciao! Greetings from Rome where I am, ahem, doing a little field work on the adoption of mobile payments outside of the...
As I said on Friday, CTIA invited 50,000 of its closest friends to gather in NOLA for its big International Wireless show....
As I said on Friday, CTIA invited 50,000 of its closest friends to gather in NOLA for its big International Wireless show....

CTIA invited 50,000 of its closest friends to gather in NOLA for its big International Wireless show. I moderated a panel on...
Okay, Nick Holland - I’ve taken the bait. Your NFC media advisory today refuting the notion that NFC isn’t to cards what...
I participated on two panels in the 4th annual Mobile Contactless Forum held in San Fran last week (April 3-4). The agenda,...
I was doing some work today on the social commerce application that we’ve been incubating and piloting here at MPD. The application...
The media was abuzz last week over Target’s clever move to combat “showrooming.” Showrooming is the latest word to take up entry...
The Goldman Sachs technology conference last week in San Fran sure did stir the pot around PayPal and its Point of Sale...

I had an awesome invitation to participate on a panel this year at BAI on Innovation in Financial Services and was not...

Let’s play a little game after you’ve read all of these recent announcements. “Starting This Summer, the Isis Mobile Wallet Will Be...
The web was buzzing last week with the news of Facebook’s failing grade for generating sales for merchants on its social platform....
The web was buzzing last week with the news of Facebook’s failing grade for generating sales for merchants on its social platform....
The Goldman Sachs technology conference last week in San Fran sure did stir the pot around PayPal and its Point of Sale...
Mary walks into her favorite store on her way home from lunch with a few friends. Upon entering the store she’s greeted...
Ah, Valentine’s Day - the day when love reigns supreme and couples rule. In the spirit of bringing a little romance to...
I don’t know about you, but 2012 so far has left me a little breathless given the fast pace at which the...
I don’t know about you, but 2012 so far has left me a little breathless given the fast pace at which the...
Talk about starting 2012 off with a bang! It can now be confirmed that Scott Thompson, President of PayPal since 2008, will...

Ah, September! It’s the beginning of fall: back to school, football, sweaters here in Boston, and now apparently, the race to the...
Couldn’t resist the opportunity to weigh in, briefly, on the story that had the Web in an uproar yesterday. Seems as though...
The holiday season is upon us. I know, wasn’t it just July? That aside, 'tis the season of parties, gift buying and...
Last week eBay and PayPal made news at its X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference in San Jose. It was a few days of...
Mobile. Everywhere. Opportunity. Everywhere. This was the theme of the GigaOm Mobilize 2011 conference held one week ago in San Francisco. Over...
PART 1: • Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race with Google and Others PART 2: • Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race...
PART 1: • Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race with Google and Others PART 3: • Handicapping PayPal and Google in the...
PART 2: • Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race with PayPal and Others PART 3: • Handicapping PayPal and Google in the...
San Diego was the host to WesPay’s annual payments forum this year, appropriately themed “Payments in Transition.” The ballroom at the Westin...
Well, the day we had all been waiting for finally arrived. Yesterday, September 19th, Google launched its long-awaited and much-anticipated Google Wallet....

OK, having just written a little analysis on the deal space, I was feeling pretty prescient about the Groupon IPO delay story...

Could it be that the bloom is off of the daily deal rose? The news out of daily deal land these last...

(Editor's Note: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday, Oct. 5. He was 56. "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius,...
Familiarity breeds trust, it seems, especially when it comes to mobile payments. By now, everyone and his mother-in-law has seen last week’s...