In a world where we’re bombarded daily — even hourly — by data points on everything from stock prices and market cap to retail sales and...
The year was 1999. eBay, then four years old, bought payments provider Billpoint to improve the payments experience on its site. When eBay first launched...
It’s time to talk more about what we’re really trying to accomplish for consumers — and for our businesses — and less about the tactics some are...
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...
About 30 days from now, most of you reading this who made a New Year’s resolution will have broken it. Don’t feel too bad –...
No year in payments is exactly alike – perhaps conversation is the only constant. 2017 was epic, from Amazon to bitcoin to hillbillies to Walmart,...
No doubt you’ve heard the news: People aren’t watching television anymore. That may leave many of you who left for the office this morning having...
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...