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...
June 22, 2011
Why Facebook is Ripe for Commerce
I have always been up for a challenge. I read just last week a quote from someone from Forrester who basically said that anyone who believes Facebook is the commerce...
April 25, 2010
Loyalty, the Social Way
Social is to strategy what the internet was to commerce back in the early part of this century – a new way to reduce costs and increase revenue by improving...
March 12, 2010
Perhaps It’s Time to Mothball the Mighty Mag-Stripe?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Martian travels to Earth and examines the U.S. payments system. He is perplexed by the dogged persistence in using a 40-year-old technology...
October 15, 2009
Facebook Hits the Payvment
So, here’s a development: Paypal has opened up its payments platform to enable developers to easily integrate payment apps into their Facebook apps using PayPal as the enabling payments mechanism....
October 14, 2009
Loyalty, the Social Way
Social is to strategy what the internet was to commerce back in the early part of this century – a new way to reduce costs and increase revenue by improving...
