It’s way above my pay grade to weigh in on Carl Icahn’s proposal to Apple to accelerate its share buybacks. But the letter made for good reading, nonetheless. Someone did a whole lot of work to assemble a bunch of stats on Apple and its various products...
New research recently released by Contract Solutions indicates that customers abandon their digital shopping carts when their mobile experiences aren’t met. Although at first glance that result can seem on par with an announcement by astronomers that night is dark or a summer prediction from meteorologists...
Zapp wants to make real-time mobile payments – in store, online and through apps – an option in the U.K.. It wants to get there by integrating its system into bank apps and tapping into the Faster Payments rails. “At last the promise of a...
The idea of email marketing might seem slightly less exciting when put next to something like a beacon-prompted push notification on a cool mobile device when near a physical store. But @Pay CEO John Killoran says that mobile buying has, to date, been a tremendous...
Square is merging the two things every payments geek needs: geolocation and making sure that your coffee is served hot and fresh. (For many payments firms, “fresh” is measured in months, but let’s not go there.) The grounds of the concept are easy to pour:...
Shifting technology, new alliances and skepticism among young consumers are creating risks — as well as opportunities — for PayPal, according to Bloomberg. That’s one reason PayPal is being spun off from eBay, which will give the payments business more flexibility to innovate and find...
Pizza Hut, who was the first retailer to truly push the capabilities of the iPhone app and has been a longtime massive support of Apple efforts, said some decidedly non-cheerleaderish comments on Monday (Oct. 6) during a tradeshow panel. “I am more pessimistic about Apple...
According to the National Retail Federation, merchants rely on the holiday season to generate 20 to 40 percent of their annual revenue, which means suffering the largest retail breach in history (at the time) four days before Christmas is the retail equivalent of a plague...
Payments, particularly the technology side of the ecosystem, has many players who love visibility. Apple Pay’s was announced with a level of theatricality normally reserved for summer blockbusters, PayPal’s 2014 has been operatic, Alibaba exploded onto the NYSE, bitcoin has suffered three or four “doomsday”...
