PRATAAPs PREDICTIONs
Jan 21, 2014
The Year of the Horse or the year of the mobile payment apps race ?
Random 9 horses. Just the bareback facts.
1. Apple Passbook: Keeps your Starbucks, Delta, Fandango cards in one place. Location and time based.
2. Google Wallet: Stores debit and credit card info. Wave your phone and go. At least that’s the idea.
3. Lemon Wallet now LifeLock: Puts debit, credit, loyalty cards all in one place. Plus identity protection.
4. SquareWallet: Similar to option 3 above but works only with a list of merchant. Has cool features like, say your name at check out and go.
5. Iris: Preload and spend. Lose it, freeze the wallet.
6. Chirpify: Use Twitter and Instagram to buy, sell and receive money.
7. Venmo: A cross between Twitter, Paypal, E-mail, Facebook, Foursquare. Go figure.
8. Dwola: Connects directly between your back account and Facebook accounts.
9. Paypal: The grand daddy in the game.
You say I missed a couple. Wonder why Visa and Am Ex are scrambling. Its the year of the mobile payment apps race !!!
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