Karen Webster

Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies
Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies
October 16, 2017  |  Bitcoin

Two innovators approached a well-heeled investor asking for money. Their sales pitch was very convincing. They told this investor that their innovation was so incredibly...

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Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
October 09, 2017  |  Commerce

Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand...

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Olo CEO: The Past, Present And Future Of Mobile Order-Ahead 
Olo CEO: The Past, Present And Future Of Mobile Order-Ahead 
October 02, 2017  |  Mobile Order Ahead

“I believe food is for eCommerce 2.0 what books were for eCommerce 1.0,” Olo CEO and Founder Noah Glass told Karen Webster in a conversation...

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Does Amazon Plus Kohl’s Equal Retail’s Future?
Does Amazon Plus Kohl’s Equal Retail’s Future?
September 25, 2017  |  Omnicommerce

Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Robert Frost was famous for using rural country metaphors when examining important philosophical issues of the modern world. Little known fact,...

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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies
Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies
September 18, 2017  |  Regulation

Some of the most memorable television commercials of the 1970s and 1980s were those promoting E. F. Hutton’s brokerage services. When its tagline, “When E....

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The Myth Of The Global Marketplace
The Myth Of The Global Marketplace
September 05, 2017  |  International

Don’t forget the seller. That’s among the takeaways of this “appetizer” conversation between PYMNTS’ Karen Webster and Hyperwallet’s SVP of Digital Markets, Michael Ting. The...

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Amazon’s Whole Foods Whole Pay Play
Amazon’s Whole Foods Whole Pay Play
August 28, 2017  |  Amazon

Fanny Fern was the highest paid journalist in the country in 1855 because of her “witty and irreverent” tell-it-like-it-is style. Fern — a native of Portland,...

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?
Should Facebook Buy eBay?
August 21, 2017  |  Facebook

People talk a lot about the tech giants that got their start in garages. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the GOOG in friend Susan...

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The Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017
The Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017
August 14, 2017  |  Innovation

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Startups are piling onto Facebook, claiming that they...

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