November 04, 2010
Driving Network Effects with Platforms
How do I bring in more participants? How do I increase transactions? These are just a couple of the questions Market Platform Dynamics Managing Director Tim Attinger addressed in his...
October 30, 2010
Is There a True Killer App for Mobile Financial Services?
As we are all coming down off a sugar high from Halloween candy and settling in for the first week of November, PYMNTS.com has compiled a few answers from a...
October 28, 2010
World’s First Wholesale Marketplace for iPhone and iPad Apps Launches...
Oct 18, 2010 appbackr, the world’s first wholesale marketplace for iPhone and iPad apps, today launched in open beta, making its wholesale catalog of apps available to buyers. To encourage...
October 28, 2010
PayPal Announces Winners of Second PayPal X Developer Challenge
Oct 28, 2010 PayPal announced the winners of its second PayPal X Developer Challenge at the close of its PayPal X Innovate 2010 developer conference Wednesday. iConcessionStand, which has introduced...
October 25, 2010
‘Invisible Engines’ Series
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...
October 20, 2010
Mobile 205 Lesson 3: GPC Mobile Implications
Mobile 205 (required): GPC Payments Value Proposition Lesson 3 Discussion Board: Which mobile ecosystem participant (type of company or company name) is best positioned to drive the growth of mobile...
September 29, 2010
Why Even Great Payments Ideas Crash and Burn
The movie promo for “The Social Network” screams “You Don’t Get to 500 Million Friends without Making a Few Enemies.” I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve heard that the...
September 26, 2010
Deep Dive into Durbin with the Industry’s Best
Pymnts.com has assembled a great group of experts to talk to us about the Federal Reserve Board’s regulation of debit card interchange fee–and what people in the payments business ought...
September 16, 2010
Tick Tock Goes the Durbin Clock- Eight Months to go...
The Durbin clock is ticking. A week from today the Fed will only have 8 of its 9 months left for some of the most sweeping price regulation the economy...
