Tom Krazit
Sep 27, 2011 5:00 AM
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment and hype behind the idea of using one’s mobile phone as a method of payment, but it’s pretty clear that the details of how any one company or…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Apps, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Gadgets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, brad greene, dave talach, intuit, keith rabois, ken miller, laura chambers, paypal, square, verifone, visa
Laura Hazard Owen
Jul 25, 2011 5:40 PM
How many Keratin wraps, photography workshops and Hookah tokes does one person really need? After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are another 400 to 500 daily deal sites in the U.S., plus 200 more internationally—and very few people think the world needs that many. Expect plenty of consolidation in the next…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Advertising, Daily Deals, Local, E-Commerce, Media & Publishing, Mobile, Social Media, Companies, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Groupon, american express, biakelsey, buywithme, closely, david strebinger, deal current, jimmy hendricks, livingsocial, mastercard, neal polachek, perry evans, visa, wantsa, yelp
Ingrid Lunden
Jun 16, 2011 6:22 AM
Big news today in the world of mobile payments: the three largest operators in the UK have announced a joint venture to offer mobile wallet services to its customers, in the hopes of finally kick-starting a service that has been long on discussion but painfully short on execution up to…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Legal, Regulatory, Ofcom, Marketing, Mobile, Companies, France Telecom, Orange, Google, O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Countries, Europe, UK, nfc, square, visa
Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 27, 2011 2:20 PM
Visa has invested an undisclosed sum in mobile payments firm Square in what the companies are describing as a “strategic investment.” Square provides businesses with a card reader they can attach to their mobile phones so that they can accept credit cards on the go, and the investment suggests that…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Twitter, square, visa
Joe Mullin
Feb 16, 2011 6:46 PM
Just about every member of the the Senate Judiciary Committee seems amped up to pass some version of a controversial anti-piracy bill, the Combatting Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA). The bill would allow the government to quickly shut down websites that are accused of copyright infringement or the sale…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Legal, Copyright, Piracy, Policy, Companies, Verizon, coica, congress, visa
David Kaplan
Jun 24, 2008 4:43 PM
Forecasters like eMarketer may be predicting that social nets might not rake in as many ad dollars as previously thought, but Facebook is betting that deals like the one that kicked off today with Visa will help make it more attractive to advertisers. The largest distributor of credit and debit…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, Companies, Facebook, visa
Android Apps (Free)
Social Standing
Which media brands are getting a lift from Tweeters and bloggers right now -- and which are getting panned?
Show Me: