As Starbucks adopts 'Square' payments, will other merchants follow?
As Starbucks adopts 'Square' payments, will other merchants follow?
- August 8, 2012
- Bill Maurer, anthropology professor and Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion director, is featured on National Public Radio, WNYC and WUWM 89.7 August 8, 2012
From NPR:
As The New York Times reports: "Anyone who's going to break the mobile payments barrier
in the U.S. has to overcome the resistance to try anything new when everything we
have works really, really well, even cash, which is very convenient," said Bill Maurer,
director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University
of California, Irvine. "But if a big merchant jumping into some mobile payment solution
signals to other merchants that there is an opportunity here," he added, "that might
change the psychology for other merchants."
For the full story, please visit http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/08/08/158430997/as-starb....
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