December 26, 2013
20131226-2014: Will Merchants Beckon For Beacons?
Using the radio, GPS and Bluetooth technologies in smartphones, vendors in 2013 ventured closer to providing the frictionless, hands-free payment experience necessary to convince consumers to give up paying with...
December 26, 2013
20131226-2014: Will Merchants Beckon For Beacons?
Using the radio, GPS and Bluetooth technologies in smartphones, vendors in 2013 ventured closer to providing the frictionless, hands-free payment experience necessary to convince consumers to give up paying with...
December 22, 2013
2014: Will Merchants Beckon For Beacons?
By Jeffrey Green (@epaymentsguy) With big-time players such as Apple and PayPal behind it, what could go wrong with a service that lets merchants identify when customers are in...
December 22, 2013
PYMNTS Player Of The Year
Name: The Consumer Headquarters: N/A Founded: N/A Employees: N/A Market Capitalization: N/A Key Stats: 1. 7.1 billion Number of consumers, with one added every eight seconds 2. 7.3 billion Number...
December 20, 2013
Apple’s 2 Payments Paths For 2014
After a less-than-stellar summer that saw the vultures circling Cupertino, Apple righted its course this winter posting impressive Black Friday sales numbers and releasing head-turning point-of-sale (POS) innovations. Not every...
December 16, 2013
More Proof: Payments Is Killing The Advertising Biz
For any of you who might still question my assertion that traditional advertising and loyalty businesses will soon be pushing up daisies, Nielsen’s recent report on how consumers buy will,...
December 13, 2013
8 Tablets, Tapping
By Jeffrey Green (@epaymentsguy) Computer tablets will be hot presents under quite a few Christmas trees this holiday season. Many merchants also will receive some Christmas cheer from the devices...
December 11, 2013
Google’s Schmidt Invests In Beacon Startup Estimote
U.S.- and Poland-based Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacon maker Estimote has announced $3.1 million in new seed funding, VentureBeat reported on December 10. Investors in the round included Google executive...
December 10, 2013
A Is For Commerce
If you want a peek at what’s to come at Apple with the addition of Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts as its new SVP of retail and online, look no farther...