December 26, 2013
General Catalyst Raises $675M For New Fund
General Catalyst Partners, a VC firm found in 2000 with offices in Boston, New York and California, has raised $675 million in subscriptions for its seventh fund, a December 23...
December 13, 2013
9 Mobile Money Markets
As part of our 2013 12 Days of Christmas series, we thought it would be fun to assess the process of emerging economies from the standpoint of mobile. Our North...
December 09, 2013
12 Retailers Innovating With Mobile
“Mobile blurs the on and offline worlds, making it possible for everything with a physical component to have an online component … Having the ability to communicate with consumers in...
December 04, 2013
Digital Publisher Shares Mags With iBeacon
Leveraging Apple’s Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology innovation iBeacon, a digital publisher in London has developed a new way to market digital magazine subscriptions, TechCrunch reported on December 4. Exact...
November 07, 2013
Vantiv Subsidiary Releases CNP Merchant Solution
Litle & Co., a subsidiary of payment processing services provider Vantiv, has announced the launch of a new solution called Recurring Engine, according to a November 6 press release. Recurring...
October 18, 2013
VC Funding Patterns Suggest Subscription eCommerce Bubble
By Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) Recurring revenue models successfully increase traditional online sales – at least that’s the latest finding from one of subscription eCommerce’s emerging heavyweights, Birchbox. The New...
October 10, 2013
WorldPay, PayWizard Partner For Digital Media Payments
Payment processing company WorldPay, together with media subscription management and billing platform PayWizard, announced yesterday their plans to integrate, according to a WorldPay press release. Merchants, as a result, will...
October 04, 2013
The Top 10 Payments Innovators
By Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” It’s become a bit cliche to quote the late Steve Jobs, but there may not be a better...
October 02, 2013
Estimation of Loss in Consumer Surplus Resulting from Excessive Pricing...
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marta Stryszowska (Microeconomix, France) provides Estimation of Loss in Consumer Surplus Resulting from Excessive Pricing of Telecommunication Services in Mexico ABSTRACT: The present study evaluates...
