Hip to be Square – Mobile Payments Phenomenon or Hype?
What is the real deal with Square? It will be fun to watch it play out.
What is the real deal with Square? It will be fun to watch it play out.
The U.S. market is clearly in the early stages of a massive growth trend in mobile payments. I see three main areas of mobile payments/commerce activities in varying states: remote mobile payments, mobile point of sale (POS) and contactless/NFC mobile payments. Remote mobile payments are actually quite far along in the lifecycle. Today, digital content [...]
Billing Revolution is among a crop of startups that are trying to build mobile-payments businesses that don’t rely on new technologies like near-field communication (NFC), a sophisticated interactive technology that has become bogged down in disputes between banks and mobile carriers. That could be an advantage for the startups, say some. “I continually hear from [...]