November 27, 2011
And Visions of Smartphones Dance in their Heads (and in...
The holiday season is upon us. I know, wasn’t it just July? That aside, ’tis the season of parties, gift buying and giving, holiday songs and TV and movie classics...
October 12, 2011
Analysis: Zynga to Launch Own Game Platform after Facebook Credit...
CityVille and FarmVille developer Zynga announced Tuesday that it will be developing an independent game platform. It’s a move, MarketWatch’s John Shinai speculates, designed to recoup revenue after the company...
September 29, 2011
ShopText CEO Talks AOL Deal; Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Couponing Conundrum
ShopText has teamed up with AOL Shortcuts to leverage merchants and consumers who are still feeling out the murky waters of mobile payments. The partnership creates a heavier direct-to-card footprint...
September 26, 2011
Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race
PART 2: • Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race with PayPal and Others PART 3: • Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race Ah, September! It’s the...
August 21, 2011
First Comes Wallet, then Comes Motorola: PYMNTS Readers Predict What’s...
The payments world, heck, the entire world was rocked by last week’s announcement that Google would acquire Motorola Mobility. Given its Google Wallet ambitions, was this a smart purchase for...
July 25, 2011
The Enigma of Zero
(Part of the Payments Redefined series) Abdul runs a ‘kirana’ (a small grocery) store in Dharavi, the world’s largest slum in Mumbai. The area is also the hub of several...
June 16, 2011
ReD Reports on Curbing Global Payment Fraud
Click here to download your free copy of Retail Decisions’ latest whitepaper. Executive Summary Thieves follow the money and there is a lot of it to be found in...
June 12, 2011
Will Google Wallet Ignite mPayments? PYMNTS Readers Weigh In
Google’s announcement of its NFC-mobile payments scheme last month sparked intense interest from payments pundits. But will the Google Wallet do the same for merchants and consumers? Check out the...
June 01, 2011
The 4 Approaches to Mobile Payments: Integrating Your Mobile Strategy
Courtesy of 2nd Mobile Commerce In today’s instant gratification society, consumers expect to have all information readily available at their fingertips. This usually comes in some way, shape, or form...
Being a landlord or a property manager is a thankless job. It seems like renters are never happy. Want to know a trick to getting happy tenants? Providing instant payments for refunds, finds PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 2,606 consumers, “Generation Instant: Renters and Refunds,” a collaboration with Ingo Money.