Because we live in a tweet-constrained world, the short answer is yes. But I think every player in the financial services industry needs a Bitcoin strategy -- payments enablers especially. By strategy I mean that every company involved in payments should evaluate...
Over three years ago I wrote a cheeky headline about “PayPal World Domination” (covering the 2009 eBay Analyst day) and that post has remained one of the top 10 Payments Views pages ever since – evidence of the enduring curiosity, anxiety, respect, and skepticism...
As anticipated, and widely leaked, PayPal today announced PayPal Here, its mobile payments acceptance solution, at a private event in San Francisco. At a high-level it matches – and in some cases, exceeds – the features offered by Square and the other mobile POS...
I went by the San Carlos Home Depot on the way to the Glenbrook office this morning and used PayPal's "Empty Hands" to pay for my purchase. The whole thing worked and I left the store with a Home Depot receipt that listed my payment method as "PayPal" instead of...
I realized today that mobile payments have "jumped the shark" as an emerging payments topic, and are now helplessly mainstream in the public's mind. With USA Today and the Wall Street Journal on top of the story week to week, I find myself cringing at the confusion...
How does disruption happen in mature industries? Clayton Christensen famously wrote about this phenomenon in his classic book “The Innovator's Dilemma.” Most commonly, the new disruptor enters from below - by providing new capabilities to those unserved by the...
Every year I try to attend what I think of as the PayPal Developers Conference. This year what used to be the PayPal X Innovate Conference was expanded to include eBay app development, Magento app development, and –– most importantly –– X.commerce app development....
Every year I try to attend what I think of as the PayPal Developers Conference. This year what used to be the PayPal X Innovate Conference was expanded to include eBay app development, Magento app development, and –– most importantly –– X.commerce app development....
For those of us following the evolution of mobile payments in the US, it was quite a week indeed. What with PayPal’s peek behind the curtain at enabling its users to pay at physical POS merchants and MasterCard’s Investor Day briefing and demonstrations of its...
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.)...
