My Take: Apple’s New Passbook

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...

The PayPal Juggernaut

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...

A Bubble in Mobile Payments?

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...

Peeling The Blippy Onion

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...

Mobile Update: BlackBerry Financial Apps & SAP on iPhone

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...