by Russ Jones | Mar 18, 2013
When I was a baby consultant some twenty years ago, I remember standing in Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park (remember book stores?) thumbing through a paperback book called “The Rules of Marketing”. Rule #7 that said all successful markets will...
by formadaadmin | Sep 13, 2010
I’m in Toronto for the EuroFinance conference which has the additional benefit of letting my try out the new PRESTO contactless fare system run by the Government of Ontario for GO Rail that brings commuters into Toronto. The system is being rolled out as a closed...
by Erin McCune | Aug 24, 2010
Yesterday Consult Hyperion’s Dave Birch paid a visit to Glenbrook World HQ here in Menlo Park. We talked payments, consulting, emerging markets, and blogging. But the highlight was our test of his UK issued contactless payment sticker at the 7-Eleven next to our...
by Carol Coye Benson | Jul 25, 2010
Last week we asked readers to help us capture a snapshot of U.S. market contactless/RFID terminalization. We were pleased to get 43 brave souls to respond. Here are the (admittedly anything but scientific) results: We also asked respondents to identify themselves by...
by Carol Coye Benson | Jul 19, 2010
We’re looking for some impressions – from those of you “in the know” and from those of you who are just observant – about the state of contactless reader deployment at merchants in the USA. Below is a quick survey – we’d...
