Karen Webster

Is Yelp + Amazon The Mobile Commerce Game Changer?

Is Yelp + Amazon The Mobile Commerce Game Changer?
Is Yelp + Amazon The Mobile Commerce Game Changer?
July 21, 2014  |  Commentary

Facebook and Twitter made news last week when each introduced payment options. But MPD CEO Karen Webster says that the real player to watch is...

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Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World In Payments Innovation?
Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World In Payments Innovation?
July 14, 2014  |  Commentary

Financial Times columnist John Gapper got a check for a dollar in the mail which prompted him to write a piece that more or less...

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Can A Show About Nothing Teach One (Almost) Everything They Need To Know About Payments?
Can A Show About Nothing Teach One (Almost) Everything They Need To Know About Payments?
July 07, 2014  |  Commentary

Sometimes it rains on the fourth of July and the only thing to do is binge watch Seinfeld. However, in the hands of MPD CEO...

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Is Amazon Fire A Threat to Payments?
Is Amazon Fire A Threat to Payments?
June 30, 2014  |  Commentary

Jeff Bezos sent people invited to the launch of the Fire phone a children’s book about a man who painted his house purple so he...

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To Disrupt or Not To Disrupt: Is That Really The Question?
To Disrupt or Not To Disrupt: Is That Really The Question?
June 23, 2014  |  Commentary

It is hard to imagine Harvard professors as anything but the sorts of people inclined to shop at J. Crew and with excellent manners. So...

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Are the Best Days over for Digital Wallets?
Are the Best Days over for Digital Wallets?
June 18, 2014  |  Commentary

The slow path to digital wallets ignition has caused some in the business to say that they’re all but dead and more or less the...

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PayPal’s Marcus Moves To Facebook
PayPal’s Marcus Moves To Facebook
June 10, 2014  |  Acquiring

Old news but new analysis. Check out Karen Webster’s take on the news that stopped the payments world from spinning on its axis for a...

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What Apple Didn’t Say That Acquirers Should Have Heard
What Apple Didn’t Say That Acquirers Should Have Heard
June 09, 2014  |  Acquiring

Last week’s Apple WWDC keynote has prompted a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacking with respect to Apple’s plans for devices, software and even payments. Although...

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