The march towards a new generation of marketplaces was clearly in evidence this week in Las Vegas, as the 4th edition of Money2020 attracted a huge, 10,000+ person ecosystem of financial players that all want a piece of the new…
The name of the game this week is gearing up for our big SMB Digital Marketing conference in New Orleans. I've been spending lots of time talking to speakers about what we'll discuss on stage -- which has mostly focused…
GoDaddy, continuing to rev up its expanding SMB platform as its IPO nears, has launched "Get Paid", an online and mobile payments service. Get Paid lets Go Daddy's base of 12 million customers - many of them SMBs - accept…
Throw out the pyramid and the funnel. The pretzel is the new paradigm for mobile-driven retail, according to panelists at the OMMA Mobile M Commerce event Oct. 22 in Los Angeles. The age-old pyramid and funnel concepts have been driven…
John Donahoe, eBay CEO and interim PayPal CEO, projected soaring numbers for new mobile payment forecasts. During his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Association, Donahoe predicted that eBay would reach $8 billion in mobile gross merchandise volume (GMV) this…
Moh Ok, Chief Scientist at PayPal, and Bo Fishback, CEO and Founder of Zaarly, talked about the integration of social, local and mobile to close the loop on driving consumer purchases during a morning dedicated to SoLoMo here at ILM…
Mobile is playing an increasingly large role for deal a day, with some companies seeing it accounting for 20 percent to 25 percent of their traffic. But making transactions from mobile devices remains a work in progress. There is apparently…
