Are consumers addicted to mobile banking? Well, if pulling out a mobile phone to check a bank account balance during dinner — and even on a date – qualifies as addictive, then the answer is yes. A Chase-commissioned survey released yesterday (June 23) shows that...
You can learn a lot by looking at how each of the mobile payments players - at least those in the market today - tout their capabilities. We took a peek at the pitches and how the mobile pay rhetoric changed since the “Pay” space...
Having a reputation as a brand is tough, even when that reputation is generally a good one. It is hard to argue against the idea that it is a good thing to have customers expect good things from your stores. But with high expectations comes...
Bucket of popcorn and large pop: $20 Authentic jersey of favorite player: $169.95 Two tickets to playoff game: $5,000 The experience of seeing that game live: Priceless Well, perhaps not. That throwback MasterCard commercial theme could very much be applied to what’s happening in today’s...
Most people start married life together taking stock of wedding gifts, maybe buying some extra household items with that seed money from generous wedding guests, or reminiscing about their honeymoon. Austin and Beccy Craig obviously thought that sounded boring and way too predictable. So, instead,...
Shoppers love a discount – pretty much always. There is little not to love by the notion of paying less money for something one wants to buy. For the retail shops, however, the discounting is less an absolute good and more a double-edged sword. In theory,...
Everything old is new again. Including the mobile payments ecosystem. Now, depending on who you ask and what generation they’re from they’ll likely start off a story with “Well, back in my day, we used to…” or “remember when…” and share stories about the clunky,...
The collective tech world got their first look at how Apple plans to reinvent the way that consumers shop and pay (merchants), curate and consume (information) and get their groove on (listen to music). When Tim Cook took the stage today at WWDC – Apple’s...
This week PayPal accomplished a minor miracle, insofar as it managed to partially break the Internet without officially joining the Kardashian/Jenner family. However, for those of us who are not Kardashian-Jenners, all publicity is not good publicity, and this week’s collection of headlines likely had...