Something Is Better Than Nothing: Yahoo and Alibaba’s New Deal
July 31, 2011
Yahoo, Alibaba, Softbank come to agreement | councils.glgroup.com
NEW YORK — Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO)., Japan's Softbank Corp (TYO:9984). and the Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group have agreed on a compensation plan involving the Web payment service AliPay.Under the agreement, Yahoo Inc., Softbank Corp. and Alibaba said that Alibaba — and thereby its shareholders — will continue to participate in Alipay's future financial performance. If Alipay goes public or is otherwise liquidated, Alibaba will get at least $2 billion and up to $6 billion.
Something Is Better Than Nothing: Yahoo and Alibaba’s New Deal
July 29, 2011
Yahoo, Alibaba, Softbank come to agreement | online.wsj.com
NEW YORK — Yahoo Inc., Japan's Softbank Corp. and the Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group have agreed on a compensation plan involving the Web payment service AliPay.Under the agreement, Yahoo Inc., Softbank Corp. and Alibaba said that Alibaba — and thereby its shareholders — will continue to participate in Alipay's future financial performance. If Alipay goes public or is otherwise liquidated, Alibaba will get at least $2 billion and up to $6 billion.
Bank of Innovation: What would it look like to you? Part II
July 24, 2011
A New Bank and Bank Model: A Bank of Innovation: What would it look like to you? | by.optimost.com
Continuing from my prior post of the future of banking and bank innovation...P2P lending may be the next big thing in banking; however, the business model and platform introduced by Zopa and Prosper, even though copied by more than forty companies around the world, (http://www.glgroup.com/News/The-P2P-Lending-Landscape-51458.html) is not workable for banks in its current form.
A New Bank and Bank Model: A Bank of Innovation: What would it look like to you?
July 22, 2011
A New Bank and Bank Model: A Bank of Innovation: What would it look like to you? | www.gplus.com
The bank of the future looks like no bank at all. A convergence of emerging technologies, as follows, will enable a future form of bank that will be a bank in name and regulation only. The bank of the future looks like no bank at all. A convergence of emerging technologies, as follows, will enable a future form of bank that will be a bank in name and regulation only:
S1 and Fundtech, The Latest Bank Tech Consolidation
July 14, 2011
CORRECT: Fundtech Agrees To S1 Merger In Deal That Values Co At $318 Million | online.wsj.com
Clearly, bigger is an advantage for bank tech providers. With Fiserv and FIS as the two 800 pound gorillas, the small and mid-tier players need to successfully consolidate to thrive. There is probably room for a third gorilla, and not many good reasons for keeping around the small chimps.
Ebay in China: neither fish nor fowl
June 7, 2011
PayPal terminates partnership with Alibaba | news.yahoo.com
Online payment giant PayPal has announced it will be ending its year-long partnership with AliExpress, the wholesale goods service of China’s Alibaba that is aimed primarily at businesses and corporations. PayPal gives no reason for ending the relationship, but industry reports have the company unhappy with the amount of goods AliExpress is retailing directly to consumers rather than businesses.
Ebay in China: neither fish nor fowl
June 6, 2011
PayPal terminates partnership with Alibaba | news.yahoo.com
Online payment giant PayPal has announced it will be ending its year-long partnership with AliExpress, the wholesale goods service of China’s Alibaba that is aimed primarily at businesses and corporations. PayPal gives no reason for ending the relationship, but industry reports have the company unhappy with the amount of goods AliExpress is retailing directly to consumers rather than businesses.
EMV Smart Cards and the US Market
May 19, 2011
Is EMV coming to the US with all this means. Spend on terminals, ATM, payments software, processing facilities, fraud services, security systems and retail banking systems to name a few. Impacting companies such as, all of the banks, VeriFone, Hypercom, Ingenico, NCR, TSA, First Data etc:
Another game of Jack Ma: Alipay Restructuring and Yahoo stock price
May 12, 2011
Yahoo shares slide on Alipay restructuring (Reuters) | www.usnewsweekly.info
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yahoo (YHOO.O) shares fell as much as 8.6 percent on Wednesday after the controller of Alibaba Group, which includes China’s largest e-commerce company Alibaba.com (1688.HK), took full control of Alipay, a Chinese online payment business.
Ecommerce Charging Case in China: Taobao, Tmall, Alipay and Alibaba.com--Part 2
May 11, 2011
Ecommerce Charging Case in China: Taobao, Tmall, Alipay and Alibaba.com--Part 1 | councils.glgroup.com
Alibaba Group’s charging system is systematic and sophisticated. It can be divided into three parts: Taobao (C2C), Tmall (B2C), Alipay (as payment solution) and Alibaba.com (B2B). Along with its business booming, some of the types and rates are gone and some are coming, and surely others changing every year. By observing this dynamic process, we at least could get some clue about this ecommerce giant in China: where they are and where they are heading to.
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