Consumer Payment Choice
March 05, 2010

Remaining Relevant: Seven Consumer Trends to Watch—and Act OnMasterCard, in collaboration with GfK Roper Consulting, has identified the 7consumer trends that are having the greatest impact on the banking & payments sectors. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Why PayPal Will Open Up the Walled Garden of Payments
March 05, 2010

Why Paypal May Do to Payments What Apple Did to the Mobile Ecosystem   Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

The App Wars: Amazon’s vs. PayPal’s Strategy
March 05, 2010

Will MasterCard and Visa Fight Too?   Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree...

A Memo from Steve Ballmer to Microsoft Staff: “We Must Move At Cloud Speed”
March 05, 2010

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently gave a speech at the University of Washington where he said that the company was going “all in” with its strategy to move Microsoft products to the cloud. We’ve gotten our hands on an all-staff email sent out by Ballmer...

5 Burning Questions for a Platform Evangelist: IP Commerce’s Tyler Hannan
March 05, 2010

IP Commerce‘s Platform Evangelist, Tyler Hannan, answers five burning questions on cloud computing and its impact on the payments industry. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

The Invisible Engines that Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
March 05, 2010

The use of software platforms to drive innovation and transform industries has exploded since the 2006 publication of my book Invisible Engines with MIT Professor and former Sloan School Dean Richard Schmalensee and Harvard Business School Professor Andrei Hagiu. Around the globe, invisible engines are...

What’s in the Cloud for Payments?
March 05, 2010

When we speak of “payments in the cloud” we are using the term in a broader sense than it is usually used in the information technology world. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Demystifying Clouds: Exploring Cloud and Service Grid Architectures
March 05, 2010

Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then subsequently dismissed without catching the improvements to hosting called utility...

Payments in the Cloud
March 05, 2010

What’s in the Cloud for Payments?When we speak of “payments in the cloud” we are using the term in a broader sense than it is usually used in the information technology world. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...