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Why Mobile Commerce May never be a Viable Business

New technologies will come and go, and while the first to market may not always succeed, those who follow will often learn from the original founders of such an industry and pick up those pieces and thrive. Take the case of Webvan, over a billion dollars spent and lost and yet today FreshDirect flourishes. It’s [...]

31Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 7 comments | Continued
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Hollywood Dotcom–The Cast

Hollywood Dotcom: The Cast–in no particular order
(comparing companies and dotcoms to Hollywood counterparts)

apple, Google, iphone, lindsay lohan, madonna, microsoft, paris hilton, perez hilton,

30Dec2007 | James Blunts | 7 comments | Continued
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2007 Industry Failures and What WE Learned

You may not know this but the credit card industry is notorious for covering up its failures. While most experts will tell you that failure is important, as it teaches us what not to do and shows us how things can get done, the credit card industry is known for not learning from it’s mistakes. [...]

30Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 9 comments | Continued
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MasterCard buys 25% of Cybersource

While just a rumor, sources say that MasterCard (NYSE MA) is going to acquire a rather large stake in Cybersource (Nasdaq CYBS). Some say as low as 5% while others say as high as 30%. What does this mean to the industry?
First off, the CyberSource buyout of Authorize.Net was a bad move for merchants all [...]

29Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 0 comments | Continued
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Eight Predictions for 2008.

This will be my first predictions list, let’s see how many I get right. Sorry, this list isn’t for the weak at heart, you’ve been warned.
1) Google will suffer a major security breach.
Nearly 750,000 advertisers use their credit cards on Google accounting for nearly 3,000,000 unique credit card numbers. Millions more consumers use Google Checkout, [...]

28Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 9 comments | Continued
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Who is minding the store?

It’s not uncommon, whenever a company is bought or sold of any size, that there is confusion, mistakes, and often times utter chaos. No matter how good a company is at acquisitions, it’s just a fact of life, employees leave or at least are uncertain about their futures no matter what senior management says, even [...]

28Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 1 comment | Continued
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My New Blog

Welcome to the all new Merchant Talk Blog. My name is Riley and I will be your friendly blogger, most of the time ;) This blog is dedicated to talking about, well, ecommerce. I think it’s shocking some of the stuff that goes on in the merchant services industry and ecommerce world and it’s time [...]

28Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 0 comments | Continued
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