April 05, 2012
Whatever Happened to…Shopkick?
Who is this we’re talking about? Shopkick gets paid when it puts bodies in stores. It’s a mobile application that automatically sends consumers rewards points when they walk into a...
March 29, 2012
Friday Five: What Will Keep David Marcus Up at Night?
Amazing news out of eBay today with the appointment of David Marcus as the new President of PayPal. As most anyone who has been living on Planet Earth for the...
March 22, 2012
Western Union’s Marwan Forzley Introduces WU Pay
Western Union just launched WU Pay, a new way to pay for goods and services bought online. WU Pay leverages Western Union’s 44,000 agent locations throughout the U.S. to make...
March 19, 2012
GoPago Founder: JPMorgan “Put a Bet On Us”
GoPago founder Leo Rocco is surprisingly explicit about where he’ll look for merchants: the Chase retail banking network. Yep, GoPago sees gold in Chase’s existing network of 5,500 branches that...
March 08, 2012
MagTek CEO: “Dynamic Data is the Core of Security” [TRANSCRIPT]
David Evans: Hi, this is David Evans; talking today with Mimi Hart, CEO of MagTek, for PYMNTS.com. Mimi, thank you very much for joining me today. Mimi Hart: Oh, it’s...
February 23, 2012
Reviewing GoPago, JPMorgan’s Latest Payments Investment
JPMorgan Chase’s equity investment in GoPago, a mobile payment startup, will help the young company in two ways. For one, as the companies’ official release explains, the capital provided by...
January 25, 2012
Reflections on the 2012 NRF Annual Conference and the Merchant’s...
With dust still settling in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, I’d like to reflect on the events of the recently completed 2012 National Retail Federation...
January 16, 2012
NCR Unveils Cloud-Based Point of Sale for Independent Retailers at...
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today unveiled the first cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) software platform that enables independent retailers to manage transactions, track sales and inventory, process credit cards and market to...
January 16, 2012
NCR and VendorNet to Integrate in-Store Pick up with Point-of-Sale...
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) and VendorNet® Inc., a provider of cross-channel fulfillment technology, today announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic agreement that will see NCR integrate...
