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Investors are recognising the transformative power of subscription billing and billing using social network strategies, growing to billion dollar industries. After rumours that Paypal was to invest $1...
“Payments Rails" across the world were created on need basis, so specifically not considering the existing / proposed rails in parallel payment business and market. This was rational till a point...
As of May this year, only 4% of US FDIC insured institutions in the United States had any sort of mobile play, a small subset of this group had iPhone apps, and an even smaller percentage had Android ...
Two years ago I wrote about Curse of the Were-Laptop, which highlighted the fact PCs are used for both personal use and work; your employees can get themselves infected outside the corporate firewall...
A few weeks ago ComReg, the Irish telecom regulator, made clear that organisations are neither allowed to set an opt-out for receiving e-invoices, nor force customers to opt-in on e-invoicing. ComRe...
The Spanish government's department for telecommunications and the information society has launched an initiative to support the adoption of electronic billing by businesses and citizens. www.lafactur...
I just got a message from Finextra stating that the 1/4 million milestone has been passed (in two years). I am very grateful to all who have taken the trouble to view posts and to Finextra for bringin...
Purchasinginsight.com stated that B2B standards are a waste of time, a waste of energy, intellectual capacity and money. That they have no place in the business world in 21st century. And that standar...
Finally we have seen the impetus required to start the mobile NFC ball rolling. There is a strong likelihood that Apple will announce that the next iteration of the iPhone will contain an NFC chip,
Imagine Steve Jobs saying Steve Ballmer just called him to say Microsoft decided to stop the development of Windows; that he just received a package containing the entire Windows source code; and that...
Eric Schmidt and the team at Google yesterday announced that they are going to beat Apple at the NFC game and will launch their new phone the Nexus S, code-named Gingerbread, within just 'weeks'. Chec...
A new study by Maija Tenhunen and Esko Penttinen about the carbon footprint of invoicing reveals that the paper based process generates as much as 450g on average and electronic invoice can go as l...