January 02, 2015
Apple Pay’s Impact On Payments
Steve Jobs reportedly once told Apple’s Mac development team, “It’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.” When George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount...
December 12, 2014
Circles, Blades And Windows
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 52 This week’s bitcoin trivia: What software company now accepts bitcoin for purchases? That would be Microsoft. It was looking...
December 11, 2014
Bitcoin Wallet Security Issues Creates More Controversy
Bitcoin Wallet Provider Blockchain is in PR hot water. Again. Trouble began recently when the firm’s product lead got in a online verbal Reddit fight with Coinbase engineer, CoinDesk reported....
December 10, 2014
Bitcoins Reported Stolen After Blockchain.Info Security Update
The world’s most popular web-based Bitcoin wallet service, Blockchain.info, suffered a security lapse during a software update that affected hundreds of users, the service said in a blog post on...
November 24, 2014
Weird Stuff In Payments
“The path to any success is lined with disasters.” Adam Davidson wrote a pretty thought-provoking article on failure that was published in The New York Times a couple of weeks...
November 21, 2014
MasterCard: Security Is Nice, Functionality Is Better
MasterCard sees mobile payment security as crucial, but it’s power is relevant only to the point that shoppers are actually using it. And with Apple Pay, that is starting to...
November 21, 2014
Paying For Candy Crush And Taylor Swift’s Songs With Bitcoin
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 50 When hype goes up, bitcoin prices go up. At least that’s what researchers at Poland’s Nicolaus Copernicus University have...
November 08, 2014
The Week in Payments Picks, Predictions, Pans and Pushes
Payments players around the globe gathered last week to chat about all things payments and commerce. As you might expect, there were lots of new products, big ideas and big...
October 27, 2014
The Scariest Things In Payments
The Scariest Things In Payments Friday is Halloween, a holiday in the U.S. that involves people – young and old – dressing up in (sometimes) scary costumes and going door...