June 19, 2012
Talk Is Cheap: Redefining Innovation in Payments
We are about two weeks away from opening the voting on the 2012 PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards. The field that we have sent to the judges is nothing short of awesome....
May 14, 2012
What Merchants Want Out Of Mobile Commerce
As I said on Friday, CTIA invited 50,000 of its closest friends to gather in NOLA for its big International Wireless show. My final post will describe a few further...
April 23, 2012
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or e-commerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...
April 10, 2012
Breaking the Groupon Habit, or, Making Merchants Money
I was doing some work today on the social commerce application that we’ve been incubating and piloting here at MPD. The application is a SaaS-based toolkit that allow local merchants...
April 04, 2012
Breaking the Groupon Habit, or, Making Merchants Money
I was doing some work today on the social commerce application that we’ve been incubating and piloting here at MPD. The application is a SaaS-based toolkit that allow local merchants...
March 29, 2012
Friday Five: What Will Keep David Marcus Up at Night?
Amazing news out of eBay today with the appointment of David Marcus as the new President of PayPal. As most anyone who has been living on Planet Earth for the...
March 29, 2012
Starbucks App Now Works in the Drive-Thru Lane
Prior to this week, it was a tragedy that Starbucks customers couldn’t use their iPhones to buy coffee from the drive-thru lane. Limited barcode scanning technology had restricted iPhone buyers...
March 27, 2012
Why Care about Mobile Commerce?
The Tipping Point in Here Mobile commerce has finally reached a tipping point. But what got us here wasn’t a silver bullet mobile payments technology, whizzy new app or “aha”...
July 07, 2011
Will Zong Make eBay the Future of Retail Commerce?
eBay’s announcement yesterday of its acquisition of Zong is just another interesting example of this e-commerce giant’s grand ambition to change the face of retail as merchants and consumers know...
