Pervasive’s Brian Stein was quoted this morning in a Mobile Commerce Daily article discussing the rise of Bitcoins as an alternate currency and payment mechanism. The article looked at the question of “Should retailers begin accepting Bitcoins in-store and on mobile?” and included viewpoints from Pervasive Path, Strategy Analytics, Yankee Group and Retail System Research. [...]
Mobile Commerce Daily’s article “QSRs falter on mobile loyalty without ordering integration” looks at the changes in in-store behavior and systems integration challenges that are making it difficult for Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) to make rapid advancements in the mobile space, particularly with regards to loyalty programs and mobile ordering. Pervasive’s Managing Director, Brian Stein [...]
In a WSJ article entitled “Memo to Workers: The Boss Is Watching, Tracking Technology Shakes Up the Workplace”, companies' early successes with monitoring of remote employees is highlighted, leading us to ask why more organizations are not leveraging mobile to doing more monitoring? Mobile capabilities enable not only GPS tracking, but the ability to collect all sorts [...]
Pervasive is pleased to provide continued sponsorship to Mobile Monday Cleveland and present our second event in the speaker series. This session will occur on November 4th at the Speakeasy, an old style prohibition era drinking hall located in the basement of Bier Market. This event will provide an opportunity to network with and [...]
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). [...]
