In 2016, Facebook got very serious about chatbots. It wants to move to a world in which people can have conversations with bots inside Messenger as if they were humans. The idea is that this is a more natural and intuitive...
Last year, Zapper launched in the UK – one of many firms hawking the idea of using a barcode to speed up payments. Zapper asks users to download its app, assign their payment details once and then pay with a simple scan whenever...
Every good film director knows it’s best to show not tell. Same goes for presentations. Which is why I started using this ppt whenever I’m asked to explain what the heck is going on in mobile payments. I have boiled the...
CardFlight looks to be competing in two fast-growing markets. The first is mPOS, where firms like Square already supply thousands of traders with a card-reading dongle that turns phones into payment tills. It’s also going after the in-app card payments space ...
All over the web, services that were once costly and complicated have been radically simplified and made drastically cheaper. Take email marketing. Used to be expensive and complex. Now, it costs just a few dollars a month thanks to pioneers like...
