PART 2: • Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race with PayPal and Others PART 3: • Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race Ah, September! It’s the beginning of fall: back to school, football, sweaters here in Boston, and now apparently, the...
San Diego was the host to WesPay’s annual payments forum this year, appropriately themed “Payments in Transition.” The ballroom at the Westin Hotel was packed, as members from the nation’s oldest and largest regional payments association gathered to soak up the latest and greatest on...
OK, having just written a little analysis on the deal space, I was feeling pretty prescient about the Groupon IPO delay story that popped up literally hours after my story was published on PYMNTS.com. No, it had nothing to do with Andrew Mason reading my...
Our long-held view that contactless cards were going to fizzle has really gone mainstream. Take a look at Randall Stross’ piece in yesterday’s Sunday New York Times. His piece, “Maybe Your Old Card is Smart Enough” makes the point that those [contactless smart cards] emperors...
Published in 1888, Bellamy’s book about achieving a utopian society was a huge best seller in its time. “Perhaps you would like to see what our credit cards are like,” [Doctor Leete asks of his guest, Julian West]. “You observe…that this...
