If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t MCX It Groundhog Day At Google Wallet December 3, 2012 I was invited to keynote a closed-door convening in Washington, D.C. last week that was assembled to discuss emerging payments and the role of government in facilitating the development of...
ANALYSIS FROM KAREN WEBSTER Groundhog Day At Google Wallet All Eyes On iZettle November 27, 2012 I’ve been thinking a lot about MCX these days. I’ve read a bunch of articles and talked to a lot of people. I’ve seen...
ANALYSIS FROM KAREN WEBSTER All Eyes On iZettle Mobile And Payments: Two Peas In A Pod November 6, 2012 Given what everyone was grappling with last week with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, I’ll bet that no one even noticed...
Mobile And Payments: Two Peas In A Pod Apple and NFC: Will They Or Won’t They? October 26, 2012 I had the occasion to visit with Jacob de Geer, the CEO of iZettle recently in its headquarters in Stockholm. The interview was amazingly candid and...
Ex-Apple exec Ron Johnson unveiled his vision for the transformation of JC Penney and retail last week in Dallas which included, among other things, checkout via mobile in an effort to both reduce costs and improve customer service. Initial enthusiasm turned to “meh” as analysts,...
I have a confession. I like to study vintage advertising. I know, it probably sounds weird in this day of digital and mobile techniques but I think that looking at old TV commercials and print advertising provides a really interesting barometer of our culture at...
The payments industry barely had time to catch its breath from the Square/Starbucks news last week when the other payments shoe dropped yesterday morning: PayPal and Discover have joined forces to ignite the fifth payments network and something more important: the first, and certainly the...
The news that Mickey D’s now accepts PayPal in 30 locations in France got the Internet buzzing yesterday. Most of the stories just reported the Reuters story from Friday. But, if you want to know the whole scoop and nothing but the scoop on what...
So much for the dog days of summer! The Starbucks/Square wallet news turned an unusually hot summer (both temperatures and payments news) into a real scorcher. EVERYONE in the payments industry is buzzing over the news and speculating about its implications to themselves and to...