As I sit in the hotel prior to heading over to meetings at the National Retail Federation “Big Show” (known on twitter as #NRF11), I’m following a somewhat standard pre-conference routine. The process is relatively simple and includes: A cup of coffee A music list set on random A view from a hotel window An [...]

After spending the better part of this week speaking with partner Software Companies in the Bay Area, I find myself motivated. That motivation, and excitement, is the genesis of this rant. Or, perhaps the genesis is sitting in a somewhat uncomfortable airline seat somewhere above California…No, definitely the former. In discussions this week, there was [...]

There is always something, personally, compelling when 2 discrete blog entries touch on a similar topic…This happened, again, today. The first post is entitled Integration is Only the Beginning: Messages from the Edge and was penned by a colleague, Peter Osberg, at PaymentsAPI.com. The second is entitled Innovating Around Restrictions – PlayOn Story by Krishnan [...]

Recently, on PYMNTS.com, there were a series of posts that have been tickling the back of my brain. These posts, entitled Separating Fantasy from Reality in the Brave New World of Payments Innovation and Is It a Dud or Not: Views on Payments Innovation, provide valuable insight to those who are evaluating a new entrant [...]

I had initially intended a different post for today…but, after several offline conversations based on the last two days discussing Commerce Modules, I have been convinced to change course. In the previous posts, I talked about the ability for a Commerce Module to enable a simple, quick, secure addition of supplemental software to a payment [...]