What is ShopKick?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
May 16, 2013
ShopKick, a mobile shopping app, was originally launched in August 2010. With its simple mission ‘to make shopping better’ the mobile app reached over one million consumer users in the first six months initially offering incentives or ‘kicks’ and scanned products when users...
What is Bitcoin?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
April 24, 2013
Bitcoin is an open source person-to-person (P2P) digital currency that enables instant transactions and worldwide reach all without financial intermediaries and with zero or low processing fees. One of the first implementations of the ‘crypto-currency concepts’, the self-...
What is Punchey?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
April 15, 2013
Boston based Punchey is a self-described end-to-end payments platform designed specifically for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded by Nathaniel Stevens, who also founded online marketing and advertising technology platform, Yodle, Punchey was introduced via a ‘soft-launch’...
What is Lemon Wallet?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
April 9, 2013
Lemon was originally launched in July 2011 as a money management application, allowing consumers to turn their paper receipts into digital data through a smartphone camera. The customer-focused application was an immediate hit, attracting over one million users in its first four...
What is Swipely?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
April 2, 2013
Founded in 2009, Swipely is a payment marketing application that transforms the cash register into a marketing tool, designed to support business growth. Launched in five markets (Boston, Providence, New York, Washington D.C., and San Francisco), the Rhode Island based company...
What Is Dwolla?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
March 28, 2013
Dwolla, the Iowa based company founded in 2008 and launched in the U.S. in December 2009, is a cash based network that relies on a bank account based payments. For individuals, Dwolla provides a convenient, paperless and quick way to pay friends or businesses. Using either...
What is Apple® Passbook®?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
March 13, 2013
When Apple launched the iPhone® 5 in mid-2012, media and consumer anticipation was centered on near field communication (NFC). And, while the NFC announcement never came, Apple did announce Passbook as a key new feature available in iOS 6. Questions immediately arose. Is...
What is Sendit Social
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
March 5, 2013
According to Wikipedia, “a gift card is a restricted monetary equivalent or scrip that is issued by retailers or banks to be used as an alternative to a non-monetary gift.” For decades, consumers and merchants relied on paper gift certificates, which, for the majority of...
What is FreebeePay?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
February 18, 2013
Mobile applications are a $6 billion market today and, according to 2012 predictions from industry leading analyst firm, Forrester, that market is expected to grow nearly ten fold to more than $55 billion by 2015. While the world of mobile applications ranges widely from games...
What is vPromos?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
February 13, 2013
New mobile applications continue to enter the payments marketplace servicing a wide variety of needs for merchants and consumers alike. With dozens of entries flooding the space each month, it’s our goal with, what has now become our ‘What Is’ series, to provide brief overviews...
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