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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Op-Ed: Holy Commerce Batman, It’s the X.commerce Platform

Last week eBay and PayPal made news at its X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference in...

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2012: The Year of the Mobile Payment?

Mobile. Everywhere. Opportunity. Everywhere. This was the theme of the GigaOm Mobilize 2011 conference...

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Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race

PART 1: • Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race with Google and Others PART...

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Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race with PayPal and Others

PART 1: • Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race with Google and Others PART...

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Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race

PART 2: • Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race with PayPal and Others PART...

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Main St. vs. Wall St. – Which Does Online Innovation...

San Diego was the host to WesPay’s annual payments forum this year, appropriately themed...

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Analysis of Google Wallet Launch – Key Facts & Lingering...

Well, the day we had all been waiting for finally arrived. Yesterday, September 19th,...

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Groupon IPO Delay: Is a Strategic About-Face Next?

OK, having  just written a little analysis on the deal space, I was feeling...