Karen Webster

The Roil Over B2B Payments Rails
The Roil Over B2B Payments Rails
October 08, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

B2B payments innovators and Warren Buffet have something in common: They are both obsessed with rails. Warren Buffet made rails sexy again when he bought a...

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors
Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors
October 01, 2018  |  Bitcoin

The end of this month, Oct. 31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper, authored by Satoshi...

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Who’s Going In The Connected Car Driver’s Seat?
Who’s Going In The Connected Car Driver’s Seat?
September 24, 2018  |  Innovation

Before there was Alexa, Bixby, Siri and Google Assistant, there was Emma Nutt. Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town in Maine, was...

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Why Certainty Rules Payments
Why Certainty Rules Payments
September 17, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

I needed a few outdoor cushions earlier this season and hired a local upholstery shop to make them. This small business is a really small...

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What Innovators Can Learn From Uber Cash
What Innovators Can Learn From Uber Cash
September 10, 2018  |  Ridesharing

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Biologists wanted...

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Loyalty’s New One Percenters
Loyalty’s New One Percenters
August 27, 2018  |  Retail

Throw out everything you’ve ever learned about what makes a consumer loyal to a brand. Consumers, over the last 10 years, have turned loyalty on...

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Online Platforms: Why Consumers Rule And Regulators Don’t
Online Platforms: Why Consumers Rule And Regulators Don’t
August 20, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

A few weeks from now will mark the 72nd anniversary of a federal court decision that found grocery store chain The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea...

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Payments’ Stranger Things
Payments’ Stranger Things
August 13, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

The payments world could very well be living in the Upside Down. The Upside Down is the fictional parallel universe controlled by a hive mind...

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Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?
Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?
August 06, 2018  |  Delivery

Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong Q2 2018 earnings report and announced the acquisition of LevelUp. The...

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