Affirming Your Intention to Pay and the Bane of Debt Collection
A famous entrepreneur has launched a start-up that enables users to complete purchases immediately if they promise to pay for them later. But there is an issue....
Are Mobile Wallets Difficult to Get Right?
Are mobile wallets "challenging propositions" that need to be "given a serious sanity check", before anyone should them seriously? I think not....
Your Smart Phone Is not Clever Enough to Take Credit Cards in Europe
PayPal Here's launch in the UK shows that our smart phones are evidently not secure enough to be cleared for a Square-like credit card acceptance use in Europe....
Square’s ‘Business in a Box’
Square is giving big retailers what they want, at a price they can tolerate, and is signing up small businesses, even as it charges more than they are used to....
Alaska Leads Nation in Credit Card Debt, by a Wide Margin
Alaskans carried $7,012 in credit card debt in Q4 2012, on average, way ahead of Connecticut residents who owed $5,820; Iowans had the lowest debt average....