The endless speculation over Facebook’s plans to build a new set of global payments rails and launch a global cryptocurrency comes to an end today...
Bashing Big Tech has become something of a sport. Regulators are circling the wagons. Policymakers are preparing to haul Big Tech execs to Capitol Hill...
The two most powerful forces shaping the future of retail payments have nothing to do with payments at all. At least at first glance. Ironically,...
It started with a postcard that was slipped under my front door in Boston last fall. It was an invitation to join an online neighborhood...
Let’s hop into the time travel machine this Monday morning and go back to the year 1973. Here’s why. The proposed credit card interest rate...
The news last Friday that Facebook has plans to launch its own global crypto-based payments rails is déjà vu all over again. Déjà vu because...
Amazon announced last week that it would spend $800 million to make one-day shipping the default for Prime members. Much of the coverage was about...
Uber filed its S-1 last Thursday (April 11), two weeks after Lyft went public. By close of business on Friday, Lyft’s stock was trading at...
Three years ago, I wrote a piece in which I said Apple had become the kind of company that Steve Jobs once said he never...