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    Verizon May Say No: Where Does This Leave Google Wallet?

    By: Karen Webster on December 9th, 2011

    Couldn’t resist the opportunity to weigh in, briefly, on the story that had the Web in an uproar yesterday. Seems as though Verizon may be giving Google the proverbial lump of coal a little early this year by saying ixnay to its Wallet. (Read Verizon’s latest statement.) Now, having the largest mobile operator in the […]

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    And Visions of Smartphones Dance in their Heads (and in the Stores)…

    By: Karen Webster on November 28th, 2011

    The holiday season is upon us. I know, wasn’t it just July? That aside, ‘tis the season of parties, gift buying and giving, holiday songs and TV and movie classics that put the meaning of the holiday season in the proper context. 
    And the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without at least one viewing of that […]

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    Is 2012 The Year Mobile Payments Take Off?

    By: Karen Webster on October 4th, 2011

    Mobile. Everywhere. Opportunity. Everywhere. This was the theme of the GigaOm Mobilize 2011 conference held one week ago in San Francisco. Over two days during 50 sessions, participants debated the impact of the mash-up of cloud computing and the mobile Web for driving new opportunities for everyone in mobile - certainly a familiar theme for […]

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    Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race

    By: Karen Webster on September 28th, 2011

    Over last two days, I handicapped PayPal and Google in their race with each other and potential players to grab a big share of the emerging mobile transaction platform ecosystem. Today, I’m going to share some final thoughts.
    One thing that I think that the Starbucks mobile experience has shown us is how willing consumers are […]

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    Handicapping Google in its Mobile Race with PayPal and Others

    By: Karen Webster on September 27th, 2011

    Yesterday, I gave my thoughts on what PayPal had going for it in its race to win or at least get bronze in the mobile transaction platform race. Here’s my take on Google.
    Consumers: There are a couple of important things to look at here. First, Google is the largest search engine on the planet, has […]

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    Handicapping PayPal in its Mobile Race with Google and Others

    By: David Evans on September 26th, 2011

    Ah, September! It’s the beginning of fall: back to school, football, sweaters here in Boston, and now apparently, the race to the physical point of sale – mobile payments style. PayPal let the world in on its mobile payments vision two weeks ago at an invitation-only forum in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Google launched its […]

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    Prof. Steve Jobs: Lessons from His Legacy for the Payments Sector

    By: Karen Webster on August 26th, 2011

    The resignation of Steve Jobs as Apple’s CEO has prompted a zillion articles on its impact on everything from Apple’s ability to continue to innovate to the future of the mobile industry. I don’t have much to add to that score. News of his resignation brought to mind two things, though, that might be new […]

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    Why Steve Jobs Will Go Down as “The Man”

    By: David Evans on August 26th, 2011

    To integrate, or not to integrate: that is the question. Or at least the one that has hung over Steve Jobs’ career that, sadly, seems to have come to an end.
    By the late 1980s, Jobs was considered a fool outdone by the wily Bill Gates. Jobs – obsessed with the beauty of the Mac, with […]

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    Commentary: Major Mobile Moves for Visa

    By: Margaret Weichert on June 17th, 2011

    Visa’s recent acquisition push has brought the payments network giant a range of interesting assets, from merchant processing solutions, mobile and social media properties to technology solutions. However, Visa’s most recent acquisition, Fundamo of South Africa, may have the most interesting potential to influence the direction of global mobile payments, given its focus on using […]

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    “Googling” mPayments Ignition? Why Google’s Wallet May Be the Top Search Result

    By: Karen Webster on May 27th, 2011

    Google’s announcement today of its NFC-mobile payments scheme is, with a few exceptions, a real textbook case study in what you need to do if you want to ignite a new payments method. It’s also a real study in contrast of the struggles that others, namely ISIS, have had in trying to pull something similar […]

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