Aside from the issue of what MasterCard, Visa, American Express and issuing banks will do, there is the question of what others such as PayPal might do.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Google, Apple, ISIS Gear Up for Payments Battle
Though the ISIS NFC payments venture formed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon might not launch until about June 2012, it already is shaping thinking about near field communications and mobile payments.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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