“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, is...
Wanna know how many Apple Pay users there are? Of course you do. And we did the math. Tim Cook dropped a...
Coming out of the All-Star game last weekend, it is surprising that the curveball of the week didn’t come out of baseball....
Ever since J.R. Ewing took a bullet in 1980, the summer has been the season for speculation. Even though we all binge-watch...
It is hard to say enough good things about human ingenuity — written language, currency, flight, space travel and pocket-sized supercomputers all...
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is set to kick off in about 10 days in San Francisco. If you’d like to watch the...
In 2003, Apple changed the face of music with the back-to-back releases of the iTunes store and the iPod. Apple did not...
There are two things that can be taken as certainly true coming out of the final days of April 2015. 1. It...
Most people at some point in their life dream about what they would do if they were suddenly super rich. We think...
When people ask – “how hard is payments?” – there are a variety of ways to answer that question. There’s the simple...
There is an old adage that says “March goes in like a lion but goes out like a lamb,” that one could...
A little under four months ago, the payments ecosystem got something of a surprise when a first round of Apple Pay adoption...
Though conventional wisdom says “you can’t be everything to everybody,” conventional wisdom may be due for a digital-age upgrade. “Mobile obviously,...
The Apple Watch was undoubtedly the star of the show at Cupertino’s “Spring Forward” event on Monday (March 9) with the rest of...
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There’s an old saying, taken from a story in the Old Testament, that goes something like this – “Be ever cautious, every...
Developers are the unseen engine that make digital payments and commerce possible. Why? Because behind every great app is a great developer....
In the United States each day, about 2 million people travel by air. On average, those travelers are in their late 40s and...
When Tim Cook announced at Apple's last earnings that Apple Pay was being accepted at 200k new merchant locations, no one focused...
Valentine’s Day in 2015 is a bit unique – it is cursed. Or at least many people might believe it is cursed,...
A corporate slogan, in this case “it’s everywhere you want to be,” may never have been more literally true than it was...
If Apple populated a city with all the people it has sold phones to since late 2014, that city would be eight...
Here we are – 19 days into a new year and midway in the month known apparently as “divorce month.” According to...
Last week, I was given a copy of the UBS report on Apple Pay. It claims that the launch of Apple Pay...
If asked to name America’s greatest “outlaw” brand, it’s easy to imagine some familiar (and oddly similarly structured) there are probably lots...
In just 113 days last year, Apple Pay managed to completely change the conversation about mobile payments. And we’ve been there for...
Steve Jobs reportedly once told Apple’s Mac development team, “It’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.” When George Mallory...
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -Mohandas Gandhi If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he...
Some iPhone accessories that attach to the phone via magnets—an attachable better camera lens is an example—may disrupt NFC communications and, therefore,...
Variety, it is said, is the spice of life. And nowhere is variety more important than when it comes to having a...
United Airlines is making onboard purchases, accessing email and other internal information for flight attendants much easier by supplying their team of more...
Grammy Award-winner Gwen Stefani is teaming up with MasterCard to take over the Priceless Surprises launch to support cardholders every time they...
Apple Pay is not only confusing the heck out of the McDonald’s staff but it’s also leaving a bitter taste with iPhone...
“When he rolls into a gas station to fill his tank, [Jack] doesn’t get out of his car. He punches a few...
RadPad wants to make it easy not only find an apartment, condo or home, but also to pay rent. And, now, those...
Former Apple CEO and author of “Moonshot!”, John Sculley believes Apple’s running with a momentum that won’t stop anytime soon. While second...
In the military, there is a concept called acceptable losses and it, candidly, calculates how many of your fighters are likely to...
The Apple Watch is expected to roll out in early 2015 but that isn’t stopping Impekable UI designers from mocking up potential new...
More than 95 percent of iPhone 6 and 6+ users who could have paid with Apple Pay on Black Friday didn’t according...
Hard to believe it was just 30 days ago that Apple Pay officially launched and even harder to believe how different the...
Apple made its grand yet disruptive entrance into the payments ecosystem just 30 days ago. Since then, it’s stirred up a ton...
Apple Pay has been out and available to consumers for just about a month now, but the real test hasn’t started yet. The...
Apple Pay is starring in a new commercial from Chase Bank which features the indie band Bleachers. The spot was developed by...
Neiman Marcus is helping customers stay informed this holiday season by enabling a mobile message campaign at select stores. Neiman Marcus will...
Chase has tapped into a new target audience by teaming up with David Guetta to encourage iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus...
Sephora officially announced last week the adoption of Apple Pay at all Bay Area stores. Sephora also indicated that Apple Pay would...
Gartner Security Analyst Avivah Litan is arguing that many Apple Pay transactions are missing the value of Apple’s security approach because of...
The one-month anniversary of Apple Pay’s official launch prompts the payments ecosystem to ask where we were, where we are, and where...
We thought we’d take the conversation about Apple Pay and its impact on mobile payments to Silicon Valley – where it all...
Turns out, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple isn’t the only one all pumped up about running a company on an iPad, Starwood...