Pervasive’s Brian Stein was quoted today in a Mobile Commerce Daily article entitled “Square pinpoints email to scale mobile payments”, discussing the launch of Square Cash, a new P2P payment app launched this week. Square Cash is a dedicated application for facilitating the sending and receiving of payments, and the article explores the benefits of [...]
Mobile Commerce today published an article "PayPal backs QR codes for real-world dominance as online competition grows" which took a look at PayPal's announced support for QR codes in their mobile payment application. The article looks at the strength of QR codes as a payment mechanism relative to other technologies including Bluetooth and NFC. Pervasive's [...]
The North Central Ohio Regional Information Technology Alliance (NCORITA) will be holding its second Annual Conference on October 17, 2013 at the Kehoe Center in Shelby, Ohio. The theme for the conference will be “Cloud Computing”. Speakers will be discussing various aspects of Cloud Computing and how important the Cloud has become to any business or organization. Pervasive Path's Brian [...]
Pervasive was pleased to once again have Brian Stein, our Managing Director asked to discuss mobile payments for an article in Mobile Commerce Daily. Today's article, titled “Subway takes branded approach to mobile payments” discusses the advantages of retailers leveraging a payment solution they can embed within their existing mobile applications, as opposed to a third party [...]
PayPal announced today that Levi.com, Aeropostale.com, SportsAuthority.com, and a select group of other online retail shops are participating in a test to provide free two day shipping to any customer who pays with PayPal. This move enables these merchants to better compete with Amazon’s Prime, which offers free 2-day shipping to all of their [...]
Pervasive was pleased to be cited in Mobile Commerce Daily’s article titled “Venmo inches its way into retail apps, simplifying in-app payment”. The article praises Venmo as a solution for reducing friction in mobile payments within retail applications, and explores the future for Venmo following eBay’s acquisition of Venmo’s parent company Braintree (see story here). [...]
Pervasive is pleased to present at the Annual IT Security Professional Breakfast in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 10th, 2013. Technology professionals from all over Cincinnati and the region will be coming to hear valuable, IT speakers, see the latest technology vendors and enjoy a great networking breakfast. This is a close-knit event where all come together [...]
Pervasive is please to sponsor the first of the newly re-launched speaker series, hosted in the old United Bank vault at Crop Bistro. The evening will include an opportunity to network with other local business and IT leaders who are interested in the impact that mobile technology is having on business. When: Monday, September 16th, [...]
A recent blog post by Forrester’s Thomas Husson argues that marketers are failing to keep up with rising consumer expectations and are failing to deliver on the mobile opportunity. Husson notes that “customers have experienced a mind shift: They expect any desired information or service to be available, on any appropriate device, in context, at their [...]
Pervasive’s Brian Stein is proud to be teaching at the Graduate School of Banking at University of Wisconsin. Brian will be teaching this fall about “Mobile Banking Opportunities and Lessons Learned” to the 230+ students enrolled in the program, which incidentally, just announced they are sold out for the coming year. Since 1945, the Graduate [...]
