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.)...
Last week my partner Russ Jones and I were exploring some of new ideas in the mobile payments space when we came across the notion of the "Commerce Context" - defined as when you and I, as consumers, are in an environment (a context) that’s enabled for commerce....
Glenbrook's Russ Jones is attending the PayPal X Platform developers conference in San Francisco. His post from Day 1 is here. The second day of payments conferences usually give me a chance to step back, reflect on what was announced on the first day, and catch up...
Glenbrook's Russ Jones is attending the PayPal X Platform developers conference in San Francisco. His post from Day 2 is here. The PayPal news feed was running full blast today given all the various products, initiatives, and alliances that were announced on the...
You are a bona fide payments professional if that headline makes senses to you. For everyone else, here's an explanation. Kombini Payments Before we take a look at PayNearMe, let’s first explore how Kombini payments work. Kombini (variously spelled Konbini,...
As you may have seen on PaymentsNews, MasterCard announced the acquisition of DataCash, a pan-European (and a bit beyond) gateway, this morning for $520 million. Before I jump in, you might want to take a look at the earlier opinion piece I posted regarding Visa’s...
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 a press release...
"Pay with a Tweet - A social payment system." These aren't my words. Instead, it is the name of a new payment concept developed by an interactive advertising agency called Innovative Thunder. Given the work we've been doing on social payments here at Glenbrook, we...
Earlier today, Sweden's Klarna AB announced an investment - indeed, a majority investment, by Menlo Park's Sequoia Capital - and that Sequoia's Michael Moritz has joined the board of Klarna. Talk about coming out of "left field"! A Sequoia investment - especially...
A number of us self-proclaimed “payments geeks” awoke this morning to learn of Visa Inc’s intention to purchase CyberSource for approximately $2 billion. Over the course of the day, Glenbrook’s been getting a flood of emails generally asking, “What’s the REAL...
