Written By Karen Webster

Karen Webster is one of the world’s leading experts on emerging payments and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in the payments and commerce space. As the CEO of Market Platform Dynamics, she works extensively with the most innovative players in the payments, financial services, mobile, B2B, digital media and technology sectors to identify, ignite and monetize innovation. Karen also serves on the boards of a number of emerging companies, helping innovators develop and implement business strategies that drive market adoption for their products and services. Karen is also an entrepreneur herself, who has successfully founded and launched several new ventures in the loyalty, on-line media, and social networking sectors, including PYMNTS.com.

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NFC? Not Again! More on the Card Industry’s “Betamax”

Okay, Nick Holland – I’ve taken the bait. Your NFC media advisory today refuting...

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Fed’s Mobile Use Numbers―That Was Then, This is Now

I participated on two panels in the 4th annual Mobile Contactless Forum held in...

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Breaking the Groupon Habit, or, Making Merchants Money

I was doing some work today on the social commerce application that we’ve been...

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Target Looks to K.O. Amazon Price Check

The media was abuzz last week over Target’s clever move to combat “showrooming.” Showrooming...

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PayPal Poked at Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs technology conference last week in San Fran sure did stir the...

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Karen Webster’s Do’s and Don’ts for Payments Innovation

I had an awesome invitation to participate on a panel this year at BAI...

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Karen Webster Sizes Up the Rapidly Changing World of Mobile...

Let’s play a little game after you’ve read all of these recent announcements. “Starting...

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Facebook Commerce: From F to Phi Beta Kappa

The web was buzzing last week with the news of Facebook’s failing grade for...