Posted by Karen Webster on 7 July 2011 | 7 Comments
Tags:
e-commerce,
ebay,
innovation,
retail
eBay’s announcement yesterday of its acquisition of Zong is just another interesting example of this e-commerce giant’s grand ambition to change the face of retail as merchants and consumers know it and experience it today. Here’s what I mean.
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Posted by Karen Webster on 22 June 2011 | 5 Comments
Tags:
Facebook,
IPO,
social commerce,
I have always been up for a challenge. I read just last week a quote from someone from Forrester who basically said that anyone who believes Facebook is the commerce frontier is basically smoking something. (Well, what he said was that they had about as much credibility as the guy who bought billboards predicting the end of the world, so sort of the same difference.) And, since I was quoted earlier this year as saying that people who didn’t believe that Facebook was the commerce frontier were basically smoking something (what I said was that they’d be wishing for a Christmas miracle), I thought I’d better do something to redeem myself.
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Posted by Tim Attinger on 9 December 2010 | 0 Comments
Tags:
holiday,
retail,
shopping,
consumers,
payments,
eCommerce,
payment cards
As we press into our few remaining days before the holiday, many of us are taking the time to log on to retailer websites (most often at work) to take care of some last-minute shopping. If you're like most consumers, there are a handful of online sites where you shop frequently. You've probably registered with those merchants, giving them your payment, billing, and shipping details tied to a username and password. Maybe for some of those folks for whom finding the right gift is always a challenge, you might log in to an online search site to look for gift ideas, ask for suggestions from friends in your social network site, or you might even respond to an inbound e-mail pitching a new product idea.
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Posted by Patrick Gauthier on 27 October 2010 | 0 Comments
Tags:
PayPal,
Innovation,
PayPalX,
payments,
facebook commerce,
API,
developers
Thoughts from Day 1 of PayPal’s developers’ conference
You know you have created something important when it starts to redefine the industry conversation. Over the last few days, it became obvious PayPal is on to something with its approach to embed payments into the fabric of commerce.
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Posted by Karen Webster on 4 May 2010 | 9 Comments
Tags:
mobile,
payments,
apple,
google,
vivotech,
quattro,
corduro,
ecommerce,
mcommerce,
smart-phones,
iphone,
android
Apple and Google are off to the races in owning commerce on the mobile phones as recent transactions and announcements clearly show. Here’s a running recap …
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Posted by David S. Evans on 26 April 2010 | 1 Comments
Tags:
PayPal,
PayPal X,
ecommerce,
API,
SDK,
innovation,
payments,
P2P,
ACH,
Invisible Engines
When it comes to using invisible engines to drive innovation and transform industries, PayPal is the first out of the gate in the payments industry and well ahead of the traditional players. This online payments giant claims that “PayPal X is the first and only global payments platform open to third-party developers. Our new set of APIs will offer unlimited possibilities for [developers] to easily monetize your ideas, by providing security and connectivity to the world’s financial systems.” This isn’t the usual hype—whizbangthing.ppt—that we get from payments providers trying to stake a claim. Six months after announcing its open platform more than 25,000 applications have been written to it and a vibrant developer community is are cranking out more apps as you read this.
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Posted by David S. Evans on 22 April 2010 | 1 Comments
Tags:
IPCommerce,
applications,
e-commerce,
APIs,
payments,
smartphones,
invisible engines
There’s no Steve Jobs strutting on the stage, massive consumer buzz, or slick television ads about how there’s an app just for you. But there are some things you’ve probably heard about and a soon-to-be known Denver based company, IPCommerce, is the invisible engine that’s powering them.
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Posted by David S. Evans on 22 April 2010 | 10 Comments
Tags:
Visa,
CyberSource,
payments,
mobile,
e-commerce,
m-commerce,
innovation,
PYMNTS
Visa’s $2 billion purchase of CyberSource, a leading e-payments provider, may mark the beginning of the wars over who will help merchants and consumers transact over the web.
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Posted by David S. Evans on 29 March 2010 | 0 Comments
Tags:
CARD act,
regulation,
CFPA,
Consumer Financial Protection Agency,
Obama,
Congress,
Dodd,
interchange,
credit card,
lending,
federal reserve,
economy,
u.s. chamber of commerce,
capital markets summit,
small business,
consumer,
Revitalizing credit, creating jobs, and stimulating the U.S. economy was the subject of a panel that I participated in last week at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Capital Markets Summit. A lot of people have said that businesses — especially small ones — can't get credit. A big question for the panel was whether that's really true. Here's what I said.
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