How mobile payments providers can face privacy hurdles
Privacy concerns are already plaguing the mobile data industry, and they threaten to slow the already dubious growth of mobile payments.
View ArticlePayPal taps Discover to bring in-store payments to 7M locations
As my colleague Ryan Kim writes, piggy-backing on Discover’s network will enable PayPal to expand its footprint quickly and in very big way. Link gigaom.com
View ArticleWhat the iPhone 5 means for NFC-based mobile payments
The lack of NFC in the iPhone 5 means the path to success just got longer for mobile payments initiatives like Google Wallet and Isis.
View ArticleCan eBay tap into social commerce?
Ebay was social commerce before anyone coined the term, but its daily deal experiment feels like a PayPal extension rather than a bricks-and-clicks social commerce platform.
View ArticleMobile third-quarter 2012: analysis and outlook
Apple stole the spotlight in the third quarter with the iPhone 5's meeting record sales — but not without some shortcomings.
View ArticleWhat the shift to the cloud means for the future EPG
The new, cloud-based EPG is a gateway to the living room and a way for advertisers and marketers to own the consumer at home.
View ArticleConnected consumer 2013: how 2012 laid the groundwork for change
From Apple's new media services to Google's antitrust negotiations, 2012 set the scene for significant advances in the consumer space in 2013.
View ArticleHow to use big data to make better business decisions
Companies are rushing to embrace the promise of big data to understand both their businesses and the ways in which customers interact with them. But effective data-based decisions are not made in...
View ArticleMobile payments: Too many players = too little adoption
Visa and Mastercard have begun charging digital payments providers like Google and PayPal, who serve as a kind of mobile bridge between consumers and their credit card accounts. The move will only slow...
View ArticleMobile first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
The mobile platform wars escalated once again in the first quarter of 2012 as BlackBerry finally took the wraps off its much-anticipated new operating system. Meanwhile Android continued to build on...
View ArticleAs management connections loosen, mentoring becomes the individual’s burden
I saw link that caught my eye, Mentoring Is No Longer The Company’s Responsibility, by Maynard Webb, who I recall as a C-level executive at eBay. The meat of his observation is this: The way mentoring...
View ArticleGroupon continues to make strides in mobile
Shares of Groupon jumped today after Deutsche Bank analysts upgraded the stock, citing increased use of its mobile app. That indicates the company is making big strides in a very promising industry...
View ArticleExploring the economics of mobile payments
Mobile payments is a cutthroat space where margins are razor-thin -- when they exist at all. So big players with deep pockets have a huge edge over startups.
View ArticleFacebook’s new mobile payments feature is all about data and ads — for now
Facebook will soon begin testing a feature that makes it easier for users to make online purchases over their phones. The move could boost Facebook's mobile ad business quickly, but it also could pay...
View ArticlePayPal inches closer to a usable mobile wallet
PayPal has added some new features to its mobile app that actually give users a reason to pay with their phones rather than credit cards or cash. But mainstream consumers still won't use it unless it...
View ArticleWill BLE really kill NFC?
PayPal and Apple are both pushing mobile wallet offerings based on Bluetooth Low Energy, a technology that may be more attractive than NFC for both retailers and consumers. BLE may eventually become...
View ArticleNFC: If it’s Not For Commerce, what is it for?
NFC is unlikely to ever become the default technology for mobile payments that many have envisioned. But its penetration in smartphones is growing substantially, and it should prove a useful tool for...
View ArticleResearch: Cloud and data third-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Slower and less-hyped growth occurred in the cloud computing marketplace in the third quarter, including noticeably less news coming from cloud computing providers. Slower and less-hyped growth...
View ArticleGigaom: Data-driven fertility app Glow teams up with MyFitnessPal
Using information about body mass index and nutrition, Glow plans to improve its capabilities for predicting when women are most fertile. Glow, the fertility app introduced earlier this year by PayPay…
View ArticleGigaom: Wonga picks up Rocket’s BillPay to aid European expansion
Terms of the deal have not been revealed, but it will help the British moneylender in its quest to become a heavyweight international digital finance group. The British online moneylender Wonga…
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