March 26, 2012
The Mobile Check-In: Valuable, But Presently Dysfunctional

The check-in is soon to be a valuable part of the smartphone user experience. But it isn’t yet, a writer at TechCrunch asserts. “Given the proper scenario, check-in works and...

March 26, 2012
Square Overhauls its App, But How’s Ignition Going?

Square’s Card Case payment app wasn’t even a year old, and now it’s gone. The company who disrupted the POS space with its white square mobile dongle rolled out a...

March 26, 2012
Is 2012 the Inflection Point for Mobile Payments?

Prognosticators don’t do well in payments. Change happens more slowly than these pundits predict. And even when they learn this they still underestimate how slowly things change. Take cash. People...

March 25, 2012
Is 2012 the Inflection Point for Mobile Payments?

Prognosticators don’t do well in payments. Change happens more slowly than these pundits predict. And even when they learn this they still underestimate how slowly things change. Take cash. People...

March 20, 2012
Square Nabs PayPal’s VP of Products N.A.

Square has hired Alyssa Cutright away from PayPal, where Cutright served as Vice President of Products for North America, AllThingsD reports. A 12-year veteran at PayPal, Cutright has been hired...

March 20, 2012
Square Gets PayPal’s VP of Products N.A.

Square has hired Alyssa Cutright away from PayPal, where Cutright served as Vice President of Products for North America, AllThingsD reports. A 12-year veteran at PayPal, Cutright has been hired...

March 19, 2012
PayPal “Squared” Yields Triangle – And It’s Blue!

So much for first-mover advantage. PayPal Here was unveiled today as not the first, not the second, and by many counts not even the third or even fourth small business...

March 18, 2012
Apple, Facebook Named in Class-Action Suit Over Privacy

Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare were among 18 companies named in a class-action lawsuit filed in Texas that alleges misconduct related to privacy. “The defendants—several of the world’s largest and...

March 18, 2012
As Mobile Payments Heat Up, Chilly Outlook for Google Wallet

We’re barely halfway through March, and already this month we’ve seen two big moves in the mobile payments space. PayPal’s new Here system uses mobile phones and blue dongles to...