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 way of finding stuff out (when’s my flight? where’s my order? have you got … Read more
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 they see a Zapper code. The firm targeted utility firms at first, but is … Read more
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 myriad of market solutions into 32 – illustrating each with a product addressing that … Read more
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 in which Stripe, Braintree, judo and others are flourishing. Thus, CardFlight provides its customers … Read more
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 Mailchimp. Same goes for online storage and Dropbox. Now, a US startup wants to … Read more