Opinion

Direct to consumer digital content providers are creating challenges for themselves because they often try to bolt disparate solutions together to create an end to end platform. What happens is that the provider will select some combination of player, content manager, payments solution, and subscriber manager and assume they can be integrated into a seamless […]

The landscape for payments, the players and the problems. View more presentations from BillingViews

Say you are a member of the close-knit community of approximately 40 million people who play Angry Birds each month. You are therefore one of 40 million people who understand the intuitive nature of a) in-app billing and b) how easy it should be for operators to capture the billing market. Billing, not so long […]

Sometimes phrases escape that shouldn’t. John Donohoe, CEO of eBay almost certainly wishes his comment that NFC stands for ‘not for commerce’ had been kept locked up. It went viral in a ‘let’s make a headline/host a webinar/write a story’ based on a controversial phrase kind of way. Such a webinar took place yesterday. This time the phrase was […]

Mobile payments is at a tipping point. Like NFC, it seems that the whole eco-system is at the Peak of Gartner’s Inflated Expectations. The big players seem to be stalling – ISIS is basically a ‘no-show’ at CTIAand have circled the wagons. No-one has fully committed and each of the big players are launching their own solutions, Mastercard has […]