January 09, 2012
Home Depot Becomes First Merchant to Roll Out PayPal’s POS...
January 6, 2012 PayPal’s new brick-and-mortar POS technology has found its first home. “It’s true that The Home Depot is the first retailer to roll out a limited pilot program...
January 08, 2012
Mobile Payments: Time to Consider the Regulatory Landscape
The global mobile payment market is poised to explode over the next few years. One report predicts it will quadruple by 2014, reaching $630 billion in value.[i] According to this...
January 07, 2012
Report: Mobile Coupon Redemption Rates to Reach 8% Globally by...
Hampshire, UK – 5th January 2012: A new report from Juniper Research has found that the global redemption rate of mobile coupons will average at over 8% by 2016; an...
December 27, 2011
Payment Card Regulation and the Use of Economic Analysis in...
Jean Tirole, Mar 30, 2011 A key input of our modern economies, payment cards are ubiquitous; debit and credit cards offer a wide range of alternatives to cash and checks to operate...
December 21, 2011
Heaviest Week in U.S. Online Holiday Shopping History Pushes Season-to-Date...
December 20, 2011 – comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 48 days of the November –...
December 02, 2011
Do the Carriers Stand a Chance? Atlanta Fed, MPD Founder...
Earlier this year, MPD Founder David Evans wrote a blog entry for PYMNTS.com that was fairly dubious about the carrier-led payment initiatives. He recently offered his revamped review of the...
November 28, 2011
The Rules of E-commerce Have Changed
Click here to download the complete whitepaper. Introduction E–commerce rules have changed. In September 2011, both Visa® and MasterCard® launched their own digital wallets as mobile payment (m-payment) applications for...
October 12, 2011
The $500M Opportunity in 2012 for POS Developers
The top 10 U.S. retailers can add a minimum of $500 million to their bottom line in 2012 through incorporating mobile technologies and improving placement of in-store devices, according to...
October 05, 2011
Black Friday: Is Your E-Commerce Site Ready?
Apica, a leading load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, today shared its ‘Top 10 Tips’ for ensuring E-commerce sites are ready for the fast-approaching online holiday...