Here are our top five tweets from the week that was. Keep tweeting, and we may feature you next Friday.
@globalVCard: One more day to vote for the @pymnts #IP2013 Innovator Awards! We’re excited to be a sponsor and se you all ow.ly/ivYtO
As one of our sponsors CSI Enterprises points out, today is the last day you can vote for award winners for The Innovation Project 2013, so you don’t want to miss out. Our mentions feed was filled dozens of hopefuls taking to Tweets to promote their IP campaigns this week, and we love the enthusiasm! Time’s running out quickly though, so make sure your voice is heard in our payments democracy.
@MasterCardNews: Does #NFC mean ‘not for commerce’? @BC_PYMNTS highlights #MAMobileSymp [via @pymnts] bit.ly/XSFO2H
We appreciate the highlight from MasterCard, and thank them for putting on the best collection of seminars at Mobile World Congress through their Mobile World Symposium. I was live for all five segments, but the specific piece highlighted here dealt with the North American portion of the symposium and dealt with NFC’s “alternative acronym,” often used by contactless’ detractors. Check out the piece here to read some great insight from Citi, Rogers Telecommunications and Isis and see if your take on the NFC business model is swayed.
@808Andrew: @pymnts “loyalty and coupons, is almost a must-have to accompany payments services. ’Tan Eng Pheng, IDA Singapore “ well said!
We’ve covered the North American, Latin American and African/Middle Eastern seminars on PYMNTS.com, so I’d like to use this space to talk a little bit about the Asia Pacific portion of MasterCard’s Mobile World Symposium. It was interesting to hear from those in countries where NFC technology is already widely accepted – albeit not necessarily as a means of payment – and how industry leaders from those geographies viewed the future of contactless. Andrew is right in that Pheng, whose company operates in Singapore, summed up one of his NFC findings quite nicely during the presentation. You can catch some more of his comments here.
@mobeam: Had fun chatting with @BC_PYMNTS from @pymnts about @mobeam+ #mobilecommerce #MWC13 #coupons @amsAnalog pic.twitter.com/ievQjSbA7I
Big shout out here to Mobeam for providing me with physical evidence that I did indeed do some reporting from Mobile World Congress. I saw lost of interesting apps during my time abroad, but I must admit it was refreshing to take a break from the NFC-centric theme of Mobile World Congress and speak to a company largely disinterested in contactless payments. Mobeam has some integration issues of its own to overcome, but the concept behind their product is an interesting one, and it’s a refreshing alternative to a world filled with NFC clones.
@GuyEndoreKaiser: The CEO of Groupon was fired today. His severance package included one million free appetizers and a two-for-one skydiving experience.
There was no shortage of snarky tweets after former CEO Andrew Mason was finally relieved of his duties at Groupon last week, but this was among our favorites. All joking aside, though, I thought the resignation letter Mason posted was thoughtful and honest, and it’s worth a quick read if you haven’t seen it yet. We’ve been tough on Mason more than once on this site, but we appreciate him leaving with humility and wish him all the best in his future payments endeavors.
Have a good weekend, and happy tweeting!
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