PART 1: • Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race with Google and Others PART 3: • Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race Yesterday, I gave my thoughts on what PayPal had going for it in its race to win or at...
PART 2: • Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race with PayPal and Others PART 3: • Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race Ah, September! It’s the beginning of fall: back to school, football, sweaters here in Boston, and now apparently, the...
San Diego was the host to WesPay’s annual payments forum this year, appropriately themed “Payments in Transition.” The ballroom at the Westin Hotel was packed, as members from the nation’s oldest and largest regional payments association gathered to soak up the latest and greatest on...
eBay has acquired the platform and personnel from the Gifts Project, an Israeli social commerce venture that lets groups of friends come together to purchase a particular present. “The Gifts Project has been powering eBay’s version of the concept called Group Gifts for almost a...
OK, having just written a little analysis on the deal space, I was feeling pretty prescient about the Groupon IPO delay story that popped up literally hours after my story was published on PYMNTS.com. No, it had nothing to do with Andrew Mason reading my...
Could it be that the bloom is off of the daily deal rose? The news out of daily deal land these last few weeks has been grim. It has made those last few lazy, hazy days of summer, well, a little crazy too, if you...
(Editor’s Note: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday, Oct. 5. He was 56. “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being,” wrote Apple CEO Tim Cook in an email to all Apple employees. When Jobs...
EDITOR’S PICKS Prof.Steve Jobs: Lessons from His Legacy for the Payments Sector Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO (Editor’s Note: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday, Oct. 5. He was 56. “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost...
Sometimes it helps to be reminded of the stunningly obvious. You know, like if you want to lose weight, why not just eat less and exercise more? My favorite business example is don’t compete where there’s lots of competition. Blue Ocean Strategy became an enormous...
