Small Business, Big Opportunity – Credit Card Acceptance
Michael Gavin | VIEW PROFILE
July 30, 2012
According to a recent report from Intuit Small Business, an astounding 55 percent, or 14.85 million, of small businesses in the U.S. do not accept credit cards. It’s estimated that these businesses miss out on a potential 100 billion dollars in annual sales. These are amazing...
What is NFC?
Marc Castrechini | VIEW PROFILE
July 5, 2012
Industry analysts predict that 50 percent of smartphones will be NFC (near-field communication) enabled by 2015. In that same year, it’s anticipated that NFC-facilitated transactions will reach US$74 billion. Last year, 30 million NFC-enabled handsets, from leading manufacturers...
What is Genius?
Dan Dufault | VIEW PROFILE
June 12, 2012
A sea of change is on the horizon in the payments industry. Daily introductions of new payment solutions and value-added offerings are creating a constant, building cadence of entries that are flooding the industry. The deluge of new providers coupled with increasing demands...
The Future is Customer Engagement
Henry Helgeson | VIEW PROFILE
June 12, 2012
This is a very exciting time in the industry. There is an onslaught of new entries to the marketplace and, while emerging payment types including mobile wallets, NFC, EMV, and QR codes have not reached mass adoption, there is a major paradigm shift on the horizon. In fact,...
Is 'Being Google' enough to jump start adoption of the new wallet?
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
June 6, 2011
Since the release of the Google Wallet last week many industry experts and analysts have honed in on the idea that “being Google” is just not enough to make mobile payments become mainstream, but it could get the attention of the mainstream. And we concur. One of the...
Visa launches Mobile Wallet
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
May 27, 2011
When one door closes another opens, as the old saying goes. Google launched Google Wallets on May 26th in partnership with Mastercard. Is Visa soon to follow? We had barely digested the news that Isis would abandon plans to develop its mobile payments network in favor of...
Changing habits will drive Mobile Payments Acceptance
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
May 20, 2011
The recent news that Isis, the joint venture between AT&T Mobility, Verizon Mobile and T-Mobile and Discover is abandoning its pursuit of creating a mobile payments network and instead will focus on developing a basic mobile wallet, got me thinking.Is a ...
Credit card data theft declines, but theft of mobile data is on the move
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
April 20, 2011
The Verizon Business 2011 Data Breach report was issued this week and we were not surprised to learn that theft of personal credit card information declined in 2010. This was due in large part from saturation within the market of this information as a result...
Gold, silver or bronze for Salt Lake City ISIS trial?
Markiyan Malko | VIEW PROFILE
April 14, 2011
“And the ISIS trial city for mobile payments is awarded to (drum roll, please)….Salt Lake City.”This isn’t the first time Salt Lake City has been the centerpiece of extravagant proportions. The 2002 Winter Olympics were held there nine years ago (that was a Yogi Berra-ism,...
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