Karen Webster

Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution
Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution
January 22, 2018  |  Retail

Charles Babbage is considered “the father of the computer.” But it was Lord Byron’s daughter, the mathematician Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first algorithm that...

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What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys
What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys
January 15, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

About 30 days from now, most of you reading this who made a New Year’s resolution will have broken it. Get the Full Story Complete...

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52 Mondays, 52 Conversations, 52 Ways Of Looking At Payments
52 Mondays, 52 Conversations, 52 Ways Of Looking At Payments
December 26, 2017  |  Karen Webster

No year in payments is exactly alike – perhaps conversation is the only constant. 2017 was epic, from Amazon to bitcoin to hillbillies to Walmart,...

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Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television
Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television
December 11, 2017  |  Payments Innovation

No doubt you’ve heard the news: People aren’t watching television anymore. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers
What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers
December 04, 2017  |  Retail

In January 1950, William Applebaum published a piece in the Journal of Marketing about the buying behaviors of consumers in retail stores. At the time, Applebaum...

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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”
What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”
November 20, 2017  |  Retail

Accomplished public intellectual and post-Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith was well-known for four things. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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What The Book Of The Month Club Can Teach Retailers About Taking On Amazon
What The Book Of The Month Club Can Teach Retailers About Taking On Amazon
November 06, 2017  |  Subscriptions

Thousands of little brown boxes of books, delivered by the post office all over the U.S., are sent every day to book lovers, who eagerly...

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Facebook: Too Big To Govern?
Facebook: Too Big To Govern?
October 30, 2017  |  Facebook / Meta

In December of 2008, Lindsay Ronson tried to log into her Facebook account with a new password — one she had recently created after experiencing, she...

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