March 25, 2010
The “New and Improved” PayPal
Recent announcements show how PayPal is taking on the mantle of Innovation Leader in the payment industry Last week was again rich in announcements for PayPal with the launch...
March 21, 2010
The iPhone as a Driver of Payments Innovation
The iPhone provides a potent illustration of the invisible engines/catalyst business model. By the end of 2009 there were more than 100,000 applications available for the iPhone. These applications have...
March 11, 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. Cloud computing simply...
March 10, 2010
The New Age of Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Will...
The invisible engine model followed by Apple’s iPhone has helped power the information technology industry for about three decades. Apple itself was one of the pioneers in encouraging developers to...
March 08, 2010
How the iPhone Invisible Engine Provided a Catalyst for the...
The iPhone provides a potent illustration of the invisible engines/catalyst business model. By the end of 2009 there were more than 100,000 applications available for the iPhone. These applications have...
March 08, 2010
Square vs. VeriFone: Who Will Win?
PYMNTS.com asked IP Commerce‘s Platform Evangelist, Tyler Hannan, to weigh in on the battle brewing between Verifone and up-start Square, and to look at its impact on the payments industry....
March 05, 2010
Why PayPal Will Open Up the Walled Garden of Payments
Why Paypal May Do to Payments What Apple Did to the Mobile Ecosystem The 4th quarter of 2009 is definitely starting to feel like the dawn of a new...
March 05, 2010
The App Wars: Amazon’s vs. PayPal’s Strategy
Will MasterCard and Visa Fight Too? Amazon and PayPal have both announced aggressive efforts to persuade developers to use their payment technologies. Each of them has opened up a...
March 05, 2010
The Invisible Engines that Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
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...
