I walked to my little local market this morning in Boston and saw the latest issue of Barron’s on the newsstand. The cover story is all about U.S. Millennials: those 18- to 37-year-olds who, according to this article, are the future of the U.S. economy...
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Just about everyone by now knows the story of JC Penney, or JCP as the brand is now known. In forty characters, it is how a 110-year-old brand hires Apple exec to turn it from old and dowdy into hip and cool and crashes and...
Seven years into the retail payments game, search giant Google has struggled to find its footing in the retail payments game. The news that broke about ten days ago, as its Commerce reorg sent a huge signal about its plans to address this – at...
Visa, Chase Deal Personifies Payments Platform Trend Social Media Sentiments: Who Really Drives (Or Deters) Mobile Payments? The Innovation Project™ 2013 was an amazing experience from beginning to end. We set out to facilitate a series of C-level-to-C-level conversations about payments and commerce that went...
Payments has always been about platforms, of course, given the sector's two/multi-sided structure. But the big news that broke across the industry over these last two weeks is, I think the tip of the iceberg. If 2012 was the year of the mobile wallet, 2013...
Neiman’s Loyalty Lessons Facebook Gets Physical MasterCard made plenty of news on Monday at Mobile World Congress. It announced the launch of MasterPass — its omni-channel digital wallet that will support QR codes, tags — and the NFC v.2 of PayPass, which was released last...
NFC At MIT: Which Wallets Will Win? Neiman’s Loyalty Lessons The “Facebook goes offline” development of last week got me to thinking about a couple of things. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Neiman’s Loyalty Lessons Bad Data Makes Bad Decisions I had the pleasure of moderating a very fun panel right before Christmas (Doesn’t that seem like an eternity ago?!) on my all time favorite topic, mobile wallets. It was sponsored by the MIT NFC Cluster, which...
