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 first...
I'm here in Seattle today at NACHA's Payments 2010 conference along with Russ and Erin. I'm mulling over a couple things I heard in sessions today, trying to draw the line between them. Early this morning, I sat in on a briefing by eCom Advisors about a study they...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about social payments, and have reached two conclusions. The first is that a payment facilitated by a social network is not a social payment—it’s just a normal customer-not-present payment. The second is that social payments are, by...
I was featured in Financial Women's Association of San Francisco (FWA SF) Winter Newsletter. The Q&A is reprinted here, with permission from the FWA. FWA: What are the current trends in the emerging and alternative payments space? McCune: Well, they aren’t all...
I'm attending the PayPal Developers Conference this week and want to share some initial impressions about the Paypal platform and what it might mean in the world of payments. First off, the combined weight of the new products, partner demonstrations, and new...
I attended yesterday's PayPal Platform Preview in San Jose and wanted to share some thoughts on the platform, Adaptive Payments, and the partner applications that were demonstrated. First, a bit of context. PayPal has long offered a suite of callable APIs for payments...
Today I logged into PayPal to send money to a friend of mine and noticed that PayPal is promoting its "Send Money" functionality to businesses for paying suppliers and vendors. As we announced previously, as of mid-June PayPal's domestic P2P payments are free as long...
Internet Retailer recently published the 2009 Edition of its Top 500 Guide, which provides profiles and statistics on "America's 500 Largest Retail Web Sites". eCommerce professionals look forward to its publication every June not only to see the relative rankings of...
Recently, I've been studying innovation in payments - trying to identify the factors that influence market success (rare) vs. market failures (much more common). Certainly, the story of PayPal (as the most successful payments innovation in a long time) is at the...
