March 21, 2010
RBS: A Global Perspective on the Future of Payments
In this exclusive interview, Prabhat Vira, Head of Global Transaction Services, Americas at Royal Bank of Scotland, spoke with industry expert and author of Paying with Plastic, David S. Evans to discuss what’s next...
March 12, 2010
Why the Payments Industry Needs a Catalyst to Drive Payments...
I’ve explored how invisible engines drive innovation and transform industries. I’m now going to explain how they will do that in the payments industry. This entry explains why the payments...
March 11, 2010
What’s in the Cloud for Payments?
When we speak of “payments in the cloud” we are using the term in a broader sense than it is usually used in the information technology world. Cloud computing simply...
March 10, 2010
The New Age of Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Will...
The invisible engine model followed by Apple’s iPhone has helped power the information technology industry for about three decades. Apple itself was one of the pioneers in encouraging developers to...
March 05, 2010
The App Wars: Amazon’s vs. PayPal’s Strategy
Will MasterCard and Visa Fight Too? Amazon and PayPal have both announced aggressive efforts to persuade developers to use their payment technologies. Each of them has opened up a...
March 05, 2010
5 Burning Questions for a Platform Evangelist: IP Commerce’s Tyler...
IP Commerce‘s Platform Evangelist, Tyler Hannan, answers five burning questions on cloud computing and its impact on the payments industry. Hannan is an experienced technologist with a passion for human...
March 05, 2010
The Invisible Engines that Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
The use of software platforms to drive innovation and transform industries has exploded since the 2006 publication of my book Invisible Engines with MIT Professor and former Sloan School Dean...
March 05, 2010
What’s in the Cloud for Payments?
When we speak of “payments in the cloud” we are using the term in a broader sense than it is usually used in the information technology world. Cloud computing simply...
March 05, 2010
Demystifying Clouds: Exploring Cloud and Service Grid Architectures
Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean...
