January 28, 2011
Google, IBM, SAP, and The Others: Is the European Commission...
Lorenzo Coppi, Jan 27, 2011 The European Commission has recently opened an antitrust investigation in connection to Google’s commercial practices. This is just the last of a number of recent...
January 27, 2011
Mobile Calendar: July
Mobile iCommerce Apple 50M iPhone subscribers today; 100M expected in 2011 24.3% market share of all US smartphone subscribers ~ 302k total apps on the platform/...
January 26, 2011
Will Apple Get Us to Wave At the Point of...
Reader Warning: My usually sunny demeanor has been replaced by a little crankiness, given an unfortunate, unintended consequence of the snow and ice that has plagued Boston for what seems...
January 26, 2011
Treasury Dept. Names General Counsel and Deputies for CFPB Team
1/26/2011 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the hiring of the leadership team for the Office of the General Counsel within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
January 25, 2011
A Hat-Trick for NHL Execs: Card Industry, Mobile Payments and...
Ahead of the National Hockey League (NHL) All-Star Game this weekend, some of the organization’s leaders stopped in to share their thoughts on partnering with the payments industry and innovation...
January 23, 2011
Mobile Payment Debuts Nationally at Starbucks
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced the launch of mobile payment in all U.S. company-operated stores, allowing customers to pay for in-store purchases with select smartphones. Building on the earlier introduction...
January 20, 2011
Google, Apple, ISIS: Which Will Ignite NFC Payments
Last month, the Lydian Journal featured articles on the deployment of NFC: Accelerating Deployment of Open NFC Mobile Commerce Applications by Charles Walton, COO, INSIDE Secure Enabling...
January 19, 2011
Adding Value in a Network Business
Click here to download this article as a PDF. In describing electronic payments, observers often speak of the “network effect.” The network effect – a powerful catalytic force that grows...
January 18, 2011
The Behavioral Economics of Paying and Borrowing
Click here to download this article as a PDF. Introduction Many Americans, feeling chunky and lethargic from their Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve eating binges, will be making resolutions...
