July 13, 2011
Deal or No Deal? Foursquare Hopes Users “Buy Into” Offers...
Mobile “check-in” platform foursquare announced Monday on its blog that foursquare Specials will begin featuring this week discounted vouchers from five daily deals sites: “LivingSocial, with their handpicked experiences that...
July 03, 2011
Tasti D-Lite Creates First POS Integrated Social Loyalty Rewards Program
Name: BJ Emerson Title: VP of Technology Company: Tasti D-Lite What I’m working on now… The mobility of systems and applications What problem I am solving by doing it… Meeting...
June 29, 2011
Virtual Transactions May Forever Alter Payments Landscape
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/53ccd0/virtual_currency_a) has announced the addition of Javelin Strategy & Research’s new report “Virtual Currency and Social Network Payments – The New Gold Rush: How Emerging Virtual Transactions...
June 25, 2011
Session 4: Social Commerce
Highlights – Why social networks are important to commerce – Why merchants (should) care – Who’s leading and lagging – What communities are ready to be commerce enabled and how...
June 23, 2011
Session 3: Igniting Mobile Payments – Who’s Doing What and...
Session Highlights – How consumers use mobile phones today and what their expectations are for how they should be used – What are the barriers to merchant and consumer adoption...
June 09, 2011
Groupon’s Business Model: Bubble or the Real Deal?
I was not able to make Tim O’Shaughnessy’s presentation at MIT – I was en route to London at the time of his talk. Coincidentally enough, I arrived to read...
June 01, 2011
The 4 Approaches to Mobile Payments: Integrating Your Mobile Strategy
Courtesy of 2nd Mobile Commerce In today’s instant gratification society, consumers expect to have all information readily available at their fingertips. This usually comes in some way, shape, or form...
May 27, 2011
Summer Reading List for Payments Bookworms
Memorial Day marks the start of summer, which means it is time to start planning your agenda of beach reads and lounge chair literature. Whether you’re into mobile money, its...
May 17, 2011
The Branch is Dead…Long Live the Branch!
(Part of the Payments Redefined series) I was having dinner with an entrepreneur in the Indian payments space earlier today. The emerging business models and evolving consumer adoption trends in...
The “2021 New Merchant Business Models Playbook,” done in collaboration with American Express, details how SMBs are innovating their business and payments models as they prepare for the new year.