I think I mentioned in an article a while back that I have this odd fascination with old advertising- early turn-of-the-century stuff to about the 1970s. There’s just so much to learn about our culture and consumer behavior and buying triggers by looking at old...
Strategic planning season is in full swing in payments! And, the land grab for data and projections on everything from consumer spending to smartphone and tablet sales to POS trends to competitor activities is on! But, unless your one- to three-year window anticipates the macro...
If you want a peek at what’s to come at Apple with the addition of Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts as its new SVP of retail and online, look no farther than a quote taken from her interview with The Wall Street Journal … on September...
What a difference a day makes! Twenty four hours after PayPal announced its “Payment Code” update, Amazon threw down the payments gauntlet and sprung its Log in and Pay with Amazon online payment service. And, it’s for real. One of its first partnerships is with...
ISIS is working on an app for the Blackberry 10 operating system. When I saw this story on Friday the first thing I did was to check the date. I mean, could it really be right that ISIS is spending time developing applications for the...
How many people have you heard say that Apple’s best days are behind them? Well, I can tell you that it is the buzz in Silicon Valley, big time, and just about everywhere else too. A few days after the second anniversary of Steve Job’s...
Last week was quite the exciting week in payments as several big players really put their money where their mouths were and made a few strategic plays. ACI grabbed Official Payments to bolster its position in online bill payment, and WorldPay snagged one of its...
Once upon a time, there were four payments networks that ruled the land called Payments in the United States. They created rules and regulations that every merchant in the land had to abide by – and even imposed fees that those merchants had to pay...
Whoa baby, the mobile payments landscape just got a whole lot more interesting. PayPal launched something yesterday called PayPal Beacon. The media has described Beacon as a cool-looking triangle-shaped hardware device that plugs into any power source and acts as an in-store GPS system using...
