To the untrained eye, the impact that Apple’s late, possibly great, move into payments is having is astonishing. Just last week, PayPal and eBay announced that they would become two companies from next year, following […]
Very few press releases get read twice here on BillingViews Boulevard. In fact, it would be true to say that most are scanned with a finger hovering, dagger like, over the ‘delete’ key. Imagine the […]
A frequent theme here at BillingViews is the slow uptake of mobile payment adoption and the disappointing sighs that go along with it. The subject has come up time and time again but usually in […]
In news that probably isn’t news to anyone who follows the world of payments, Amazon just announced it is entering the world of payments. And not just any payments, but specifically subscription-based payments. Amazon Payments, […]
According to the latest research by Juniper, ‘global payments via mobile devices will reach $507 billion this year, a rise of 40 percent.’ The initial reaction at the BillingViews Detective Agency was to welcome the news […]
Once again, I am unimpressed. Another September Apple event, another iPhone release, and another missed opportunity to become a major player in the mobile payment space. Apple is taking steps towards getting into the payments […]
With two, if not three industries piling in to the mobile payments space, it is becoming a fascinating spectator sport. News just in that Facebook is about to test a mobile payments application that fills […]
According to Berg Insight smartphones with NFC chips in them increased by 300 percent in 2012. Excellent. 140 million of them were shipped and Berg thinks that by 2017 there will be a billion units […]
In the happy holiday turmoil you might have missed PayPal President, David Marcus’ blog in which he predicts that the “NFC payments debate will slowly die in 2013.” “Is tapping a phone on a terminal […]
This blog from the Aite Group backs up our earlier research and opinion that mobile payments are bigger than NFC and NFC is bigger than mobile payments. NFC requires too much infrastructure and equipment to […]
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