Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with saying that if one were able to build a better mousetrap, the world would beat a path to their door. But he never actually said or wrote that – he wrote something that had a similar meaning, but never...
There is always something new going on in payments — such that it is easy to lose track. But every once in a while a week tosses up a few things that are genuinely surprising. For example … Pre-IPO Bonus For Uber Drivers That many...
Not every innovation is a good innovation. Some, like the pet rock, are merely fads. Others, like the iPhone, are change-the-world impactful. Then there are others that are clever but ill-applied – as in malicious and destructive. We saw a bunch of that last week. Fingerprints...
For baseball fans, April 8 is a day that lives in semi-infamy, as it is the day 45 years ago in 1974 that Hank Aaron officially broke Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record. At the time, it was a record most people believed could not...
April has arrived, and once we’ve sorted out the various pranks, we can all take a minute to appreciate that winter is over. Granted, depending on how far north one lives, it may still feel like winter, but as of this month, spring’s presence begins...
While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is getting ahead, but who is working harder to get there. This...
Mid-March is more famous for spectacular endings than big beginnings – likely because one of the more high-profile political assassinations (and BFF break-ups) in history is forever associated with the Ides of March. Which is perhaps a bit unfair, since spring’s official start is a...
While it is easy to imagine the path of progress is ever forward, often in the innovation game it is a bit more like the Paula Abdul hit song from the late ’80s — two steps forward, one step back. That was on display this week in payments...
Followers of the regular news cycle will note that between the action on Capitol Hill and in North Korea, the flow of news was a lot of big starts, fast stops and the occasional piece of speculation about events that may or may not have...