In this five part series, we have referred to gift cards and pre-paid cards interchangeably when traditionally there have been key differences…
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The Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 4 of 5: Sector Outlook – Gift Cards as Alternative Banking
In part 3 of this gift card series, we looked at the business drivers behind increased consumer adoption. In this post we…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 3 of 5: Changing Consumer Sentiment– Moving Beyond Physical Gift Cards to E-Gifting, P2P and Social Exchange
In part 2 of this look at the gift card sector, we examined some of the business, technology and consumer behavior trends…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 2 of 5: The Business, Social and Technology Trends Driving E-Gift Card Adoption, Innovation and Investment
In Part One of our look at the gift card sector, we provided an overview of the accelerated activity characterizing the sector…
Read MoreThe Gift Card Sector Comes of Age (Series). Part 1 of 5: Gift Cards are Cool Again (and Everyone Wants In)
The gift card sector is sizzling these days – more so than they’ve ever been. In the past four years, there has…
Read MoreTiger (er, Shark) of the Month: Digital Ocean Makes Getting to Cloud Easy
Whilst at Github Universe last month, on my way to learn more about the conference host’s new hardware two-factor security initiative…
Read MoreBank POV: An Interview with U.S. Bank CIO Dominic Venturo
At the Plug and Play Retail and FinTech Expo on October 22nd, I had the opportunity to interview Dominic Venturo, CIO of…
Read MoreMillennial MBAs, NextGen FinTech & the Rise of the Micro Conference
Continuing the millennial and fintech discussion, I recently attended the country’s largest (business) student run digital media conference, the Berkeley HaaS School…
Read MoreFighting for Their Financial Freedom: Millennials Reinventing FinTech
One of the more enlightening sessions at this year’s Money 20/20 payment industry conference (9,000+ attendees) featured new findings from a Foundation Capital…
Read MoreIn Search of Lions, Tigers and the Occasional Bear
I’m thrilled to be back with Gigaom Research as one of the 45 analysts in the company’s new chapter under Knowingly. My research…
Read MoreData-driven marketing for the lean organization
Not everyone has a huge marketing department and budget. But new BI tools can level the playing field.…
Read MoreThe mobile commerce market in 2014
Consumers and business users alike are increasingly making transactions via mobile devices, and the growing importance of this channel is spurring companies to shift resources towards mobility initiatives.…
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