OBeP OBoy!

I’m just back from a fascinating ten day visit to India – and, frankly, I’m still in a bit of a daze from that amazing experience. More to come about my visit there. Tonight, as I’m catching up on the happenings while I was gone, I came across...

The Card Payments Ecosystem – and Fragmentation

In a post titled “Great since day one”, Marco Arment blogs about what makes the iPhone different – in essence he writes that Apple makes products that are great today. Android isn’t.Reading his post brought to mind the fragmented nature of the...

Foursquare’s Location-Awareness and Loyalty at POS

In a most interesting blog post by Foursquare today, the company’s biz dev team talks about how the location-based app plans to evolve its platform by integrating with “thousands of merchants”.As MG Siegler writing on TechCrunch noted, down near the...

An Approaching Tipping Point in Mobile Boarding Passes

I’m in Europe this week teaching, along with my partner Carol Coye Benson, a private payments workshop. This is the first time we’ve done this in Europe – and we’re looking forward to it!Flying over on United Airlines, I couldn’t help but...