Far from Facing Imminent Extinction, Credit Cards Evolve, Go Mobile
Far from going extinct, as headlines in the past year have proclaimed, credit cards are at the core of the m-payments wave currently sweeping the US....
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Murky Prospects for Mobile Payments Charged on Cell Phone Bills
There is an easily identifiable niche for mobile payments charged on the cell phone bill but whether the service can go mainstream is much less clear....
Are Mobile Payments Messy and Insane?
Mobile payments are neither messy nor insane; as some m-payments projects aren't even live yet, consumers get to influence their prenatal development....
Verizon Backs AmEx’s Serve in a Wrongheaded Decision
While Isis lets consumers choose the card brands to use for mobile payments, Serve restricts their choice to AmEx cards; Verizon has backed both....
Why Dwolla’s E-Cash Business Model Will Not Work
Dwolla's e-cash P2P service faces huge challenges from banks that offer it for free and from PayPal who spends heavily on its own version of it....