Karen Webster

Amazon’s Whole Foods Whole Pay Play
Amazon’s Whole Foods Whole Pay Play
August 28, 2017  |  Amazon

Fanny Fern was the highest paid journalist in the country in 1855 because of her “witty and irreverent” tell-it-like-it-is style. Fern — a native of Portland,...

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?
Should Facebook Buy eBay?
August 21, 2017  |  Facebook

People talk a lot about the tech giants that got their start in garages. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the GOOG in friend Susan...

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The Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017
The Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017
August 14, 2017  |  Innovation

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Startups are piling onto Facebook, claiming that they...

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What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
August 07, 2017  |  Payments Innovation

A lot of exciting things have happened in payments — and commerce, more broadly — over the last three years. PayPal became pals with the card networks...

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The Missing ‘M’ In Facebook Messenger
The Missing ‘M’ In Facebook Messenger
July 31, 2017  |  Facebook

Some of our most important innovations have happened by accident. In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming left his lab for vacation without cleaning up. He returned to...

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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?
What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?
July 24, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Innovative ideas are inspired by smart people who see problems and have the conviction, capital and courage to come up with new ways to solve...

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Say Hello To The New Retail Intermediary
Say Hello To The New Retail Intermediary
July 17, 2017  |  Retail

“There is also no question that doing business with [XXX] can give a supplier a fast, heady jolt of sales and market share. But that...

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Confused EU Regulators Slam Google
Confused EU Regulators Slam Google
July 10, 2017  |  Google

Does anyone else find it even mildly ironic that Google was just fined $2.7 billion in the EU for dominating an area that it doesn’t...

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Amazon And The Art of (The Grocery) War
Amazon And The Art of (The Grocery) War
June 19, 2017  |  Amazon

Let me tell you a story about the art of the grocery store war, one that Amazon and supermarket Whole Foods just took to the...

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