I am writing this post sitting on the front steps of our house in San Francisco. I have locked myself out three times recently, more than I have in the past three decades. Is it dementia? No, I blame mobile payments. Last summer I bought a case for my iPhone that had...
Like many payments industry insiders, we have been following the recent impassioned industry dialog about the relative merits of Apple Pay and MCX’s CurrentC wallet with a combination of amusement and despair. The barbs and accusations being exchanged by the rival...
First There is a Mountain, Then There is No Mountain, Then There is... I’ve been thinking about what the future of the point of sale environment will look like from a consumer perspective. Of course, 10 years ago, we all knew what it was going to look like: consumers...
These are some personal observations on Apple Pay, after an exciting week of reading announcements from Apple and reactions from bloggers. (If you want a Glenbrook business view on the announcement, read Wednesday's post by my partner George Peabody.) For several...
The Apple Pay announcement finally came yesterday and the company's orchestration of much of the complex and fractious card payments ecosystem demonstrates Apple's insight into how the current payments ecosystem works and how it must be aligned in order to meet its...
This morning, at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple introduced a slew of new Mac hardware, new Mac Mountain Lion software and, perhaps most importantly for us in the world of mobile and mobile payments, iOS6 - the next generation of mobile...
A couple of weeks ago, eBay held an Analyst Day where eBay senior management shared their thinking about the future of the changing commerce landscape - and how they're thinking about taking the "e" out of eCommerce. (Click here for the PDF of the presentation.)...
I’m sure you’ve seen it - there’s been so much “buzz” in the press over the last few weeks about mobile payments. Yet, in our partners' meeting at Glenbrook earlier this week, I told my colleagues that if I knew of a way to short "mobile payments", I'd be all over it....
Where are you? What did you buy? How much did you pay? Did you get a deal? This might sound like your teenager on their phone, but it's what a new company called Blippy hopes to answer with a new Web 2.0 service. Here's the basic premise. What if you could broadcast...
Amid the PayPal and Google news over the last day, you might have missed out on some interesting mobile developments. BlackBerry App Store: Finance & Banking Offerings The new BlackBerry application store (with payments by PayPal) is just being rolled out. The...
