May 06, 2010
The Race to Own Mobile Commerce
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 … Apple bought mobile...
May 06, 2010
NFC Déjà vu all Over Again
There was big news yesterday out of the world of NFC and contactless. A collaborative effort between Inside Contactless, Sagem Orga and TazTag has produced a brand new NFC payments...
May 06, 2010
Cards, Coupons, Cell Phones, Oh My.
There was a story earlier this week about the bigger role that “general purpose” payment cards are now playing in the store loyalty card space. The elevator story here is...
May 06, 2010
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire?
There’s a lot of speculation about the recent move by Target to abandon its Visa co-branded card in favor of its own private label store version. Some say that it...
May 06, 2010
The Morning After
PayPal’s Efforts to Capture Payments ShareThree announcements over the last week highlight PayPal’s moves to take a big share of the payments market. Will the Apple Fall Far From...
May 04, 2010
The Race to Own Mobile Commerce
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 … Apple bought mobile...
April 30, 2010
Lots Of Talk About NFC Payments, Little Progress
The hardware works, and consumers worldwide think it’s a cool idea. Still, near-field communication chips have made about zero progress morphing mobile phones into contactless payment tools. Longtime financial industry...
April 26, 2010
PayPal X’s Global Payments Development Platform
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...
April 26, 2010
PayPal’s Payments Platform: Open For Business
PYMNTS.com asked industry expert and author of Paying with Plastic, David S. Evans to profile industry thought leaders and executives to find out what’s next in the world of payments....
