Want some fodder for that next water cooler convo? Here’s our weekly take on what’s movin’ and shakin’ across the Apple Pay Ecosystem.
We all know that for mobile payments to ignite, consumers and merchants have to see the value. But what MPD Managing Director, John Caron saw yesterday didn’t blow him away. If it’s all about payments, then he’s not convinced it’s enough to get anyone to...
Say hello to Apple Pay. It’s the new kid on the payments block and, depending on how things unfold, it could be the new gorilla in the mobile payments ecosystem. MPD CEO Karen Webster shares her first thoughts on what Apple Pay is and how...
Visa Checkout launched last week as part of Visa’s efforts to be the biggest digital payments player on the planet just like it is in the physical world. Can it solve the massive chicken and egg problem that has stalled everyone else? Maybe, says MPD...
Facebook and Twitter made news last week when each introduced payment options. But MPD CEO Karen Webster says that the real player to watch is Yelp. She was prompted to think about an Amazon/Yelp combo after doing a deep dive on OpenTable in preparation for...
Financial Times columnist John Gapper got a check for a dollar in the mail which prompted him to write a piece that more or less portrayed the US as being total Luddites in the payments innovation department. Well, in a true case of payments patriotism...
Sometimes it rains on the fourth of July and the only thing to do is binge watch Seinfeld. However, in the hands of MPD CEO Karen Webster, the show famously about nothing is so much more than something to do in lieu of fireworks. This...
Jeff Bezos sent people invited to the launch of the Fire phone a children’s book about a man who painted his house purple so he could distinguish it from all of the other white houses on his street. The analog he was making was that...
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