November 16, 2015
Issuers To Apple Pay: Just Say No!
Odysseus was a pretty clever fellow. For those who might need a crash course in ancient Greek history, Odysseus was the mythical king of the island of Ithaca and star of...
November 06, 2015
Worldpay Adds Global Subscriptions
Payments processing company Worldpay announced a new partnership with ChargeBee, an online subscription and recurring billing management solutions provider, aimed at expanding its offerings to include an integrated global subscription billing solution....
November 05, 2015
Shopify Passes 200K Merchant Mark
In reporting its third quarter results on Wednesday (Nov. 4), cloud-based eCommerce player Shopify said that it had passed a milestone in logging more than 200,000 merchants on its platform....
October 28, 2015
Visa Checkout Is Now Tokenized
Tokenization, it seems, is coming to Visa Checkout. The world’s largest credit card company announced earlier this week that it has officially integrated tokenization tech into its online checkout platform...
October 28, 2015
What Happens In Payments … Doesn’t Stay In Vegas
Mobile. Mobile. Mobile. It shouldn’t be a big shocker that mobile dominated the conversations in Las Vegas this week. Mobile payments, mobile identity, mobile authentication, mobile tokenization, mobile POS and...
October 28, 2015
Drizly-Killer Minibar Wants To Deliver Users ‘Regulars’
Just when it seems like one startup has a market cornered, the fast-paced cycle of the retail tech world always has another competitor raring to take on the establishment. That’s...
October 19, 2015
Was A Netflix Slowdown In The Cards?
Netflix said last week that “involuntary churn” hit its U.S. subscriber base as chip and PIN changeovers shut down subscriptions and payments. But the company seems a lone voice in...
October 02, 2015
Apple’s Subscriptions Win
Remember, you heard it here first. “Apple managed to suck all of the power from the mobile carriers — and boy, did they have a lot before Apple came along...
September 20, 2015
Electricity and Telecom Regulation: China in Context
Sep 21, 2015 CPI Asia Column edited by Vanessa Yanhua Zhang (Global Economics Group) present: Electricity and Telecom Regulation: China in Context1 – Irene S. Wu2 (U.S. Federal Communications Commission)...