December 13, 2011
Time-Series Models for Estimating Economic Damages in Antitrust (and Other)...
Paul Godek, Dec 13, 2011 Economic damages can arise from a variety of bad acts: a breach of contract, a patent violation, an oil-spill, or a price-fixing conspiracy, for examples....
December 08, 2011
Incredible India!
Emerging Market Perspective Series: Report 1 Executive Summary A leading analyst group predicts that “India will climb…to be one of the world’s top five generators of non-cash payments by 2017.”1...
December 06, 2011
Starbucks Mobile Transactions Exceed 26 Million Within First Year
Nearly a year ago, Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) rolled out the nation’s largest mobile payment program with the goal of offering a truly innovative mobile experience for customers worldwide....
December 05, 2011
Social Commerce Strategies 2012
We’re living and working during an unprecedented time of activity in social media. IPO’s on social commodities are in the billions. The “Arab Spring” brought to life the power of Twitter and...
December 01, 2011
Occupy San Francisco to Launch Credit Union
December 1, 2011 Occupy San Francisco last week announced plans to create the Peoples Reserve Credit Union. In a statement released by the orgnization,”Members of Occupy SF are announcing plans...
November 29, 2011
MasterCard and Western Union Partner to Fuel Growth of Electronic...
Consumers Now Have More Choice and Access to Safe and Convenient Financial Services Purchase, N.Y., and Englewood, Colo., Nov. 29, 2011 – MasterCard (NYSE:MA) and The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) today...
November 22, 2011
November Blog o’ Blogs
Our collection this month starts in Europe, with articles on Ireland, an ECJ decision, a Finnish view on merger analysis, and the brilliant combination...
November 21, 2011
Guard against Identity Theft This Holiday Season
Online holiday sales are projected to increase 15 percent in 2011 to nearly $60 billion, according to Forrester Research, Inc.1 But while consumers increasingly do their shopping online, there also...
November 21, 2011
Shopkick Rewards Visa Cardholders When and Where they Shop
November 21, 2011 Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), a global leader in payments and shopkick, an award-winning mobile app that rewards consumers for simply walking into stores, announced today that cardholders can...