We’re talking wallets. Digital wallets. They’ve been talked about for a long time. Google Wallet was perhaps the first big launch but, since then, there have been many. Two years ago, I showed this slide from O2 on the state of mobile wallets, and said let the wallet wars begin: Two years later, the war…
Talking of how fast things change, here are a few Friday facts to make you smile (or feel ill). The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) run regular surveys on our digital lifestyles. This year the impact of smartphone and tablet computing hits the radar and shows how things have changed fast. For example, this year’s survey…
Talking of how fast things change, here are a few Friday facts to make you smile (or feel ill). The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) run regular surveys on our digital lifestyles. This year the impact of smartphone and tablet computing hits the radar and shows how things have changed fast. For example, this year’s survey…
As I blogged yesterday about how Facebook almost died after missing the mobile wave, it’s interesting that PayPal could have also followed a similar path. PayPal are not an innovator or disruptor, but they are a machine. A growth machine. Their growth is tracked by many, with Payments News being my main source of update…
The times we live in are confusing. Just as we think we have clarity of direction, the direction changes. Take Facebook. That mighty social network, that links over a billion people in a massively sharing global hive. Facebook almost died. Yep, it missed a beat and almost died. Facebook almost missed mobile and, if they…
I got this report from Monitise a month ago, but only just got around to writing about it. It's stats about mobile money and, if anyone knows me well, they'll know that I like stats. So here are some numbers: 1,008 million people use Facebook mobile every month 341 million people only use Facebook mobile 50…
A fantastic infographic was sent over to me today by the folks at Open Mobile Media. Main headlines include: banks are the most trusted mobile payment providers (43%) half of all smartphone users expect to adopt the use of mobile wallets in the next three years 1.4 billion people now have smartphones, increasing at 44%…
A fantastic infographic was sent over to me today by the folks at Open Mobile Media. Main headlines include: banks are the most trusted mobile payment providers (43%) half of all smartphone users expect to adopt the use of mobile wallets in the next three years 1.4 billion people now have smartphones, increasing at 44%…
Another presentation that surprised me in Oslo came from Tor Jacobsen, CEO of TSM Nordic. It surprised me as I had no idea about TSM, a mobile wallet provider owned by Telenor and DNB – Norway’s biggest mobile network operator (MNO) and biggest bank – and will launch in the Norwegian market later this year…
This is my penultimate review of 2013, as we head towards the shutdown season, so here goes 2013 was the year of meditation. Banks had the chance to think, reflect, plan and look ahead. After five years of manic panic, hysteria, anger, fear, angst and doubt, 2013 was the first year we could actually have…
