Cutting through all the Apple excitement, does Apple Pay have what it takes to finally gain the scale that other mobile payment technologies have failed to achieve? Despite Apple's halo effect my answer is no, at least in Apple Pay's…
Mobile payments continue to be an exciting area of innovation we're watching closely. But there's still a question whether there's a bit of over-excitement. Given that paying with cash and credit card isn't really broken, are many mobile payment offerings…
Burger King, Starbucks and Paypal all announcing different mobile payment upgrades or features that let you order in advance and skip the line, key advancements in mobile payments that we predicted in our mobile payments insight paper. And Google has…
The cliche that men hate to shop and women love it is pretty deeply ingrained in our collective psyche. But the truth is, everyone shops. The real differences between men and women involve not whether they like to shop, but…
A few things that characterize mobile payments are early stage experimentation and standards battles. That's to be expected in any embryonic sector. There's NFC, mobile card readers, POS hardware that scans the barcode on your screen (a la Starbucks), to…
Is Apple getting into the mobile payments space? I don't mean for digital goods, such as songs and other virtual goods, which it already sells on mobile devices through iTunes, but rather for physical goods in the offline world. CEO…
Square's million share tender offer values the company at a whopping $5 billion and illustrates just how hot the mobile payments space has become. BIA/Kelsey's survey data certainly captures this momentum, showing that both consumers and small-businesses are embracing mobile…
According to BIA/Kelsey's Consumer Commerce Monitor™ (CCM) survey, usage of digital media by consumers for local shopping is close to 100%, demonstrating how consumers "want" and "intend" to shop. Usage of smartphones and tablets for local shopping is important and…
While industry hype would suggest that payments will be largely coming from the phone within a few years, a majority of Money 2020 attendees, in a survey, said it won't be happening until 2020 or later. The four question survey…
As I mentioned last week while writing about PayPal's new app updates, we just published a big report on the state of the union of mobile shopping and payments. This is of course an exploding area with lots of interest…
Tomorrow BIA/Kelsey will publish a report on the exploding area of mobile payments. One of our biggest 2011 predictions was how emerging standards in this area will accelerate innovation across the industry. This will not only apply to obvious areas…
