GLG News by Radio Frequency Identification Experts

The acquisition of 50% of Eufiserv’s processor reminds that notwithstanding LBO distractions, First Data remains the most consequential payment processor and leading consolidator in Europe, and a potential threat to MasterCard’s and Visa EU’s processing businesses. First Data’s challenge is to simultaneously...

Discover is soldiering away on its path to merchant acceptance parity with MasterCard and Visa in the US. Closing the acceptance gap will produce greater cardholder spend and richer interchange, thereby enriching Discover’s value proposition for third-party issuers, which in turn will enhance the value...

The current optoelectronics market for GaN dwarfs applications in the high-power electronics category, which will remain the case unless comparable GaN-on-silicon technology is enabled.  Currently, SiC and GaN are designated for high-end defense-related electronic applications, and it will...

Difficulty in turning the potential opportunity into sales     

As other countries continue to thrive on the solar boom, the United States is falling behind in solar cell capacity and adoption of panels and plants.  China surpassed Japan and Germany in 2007 as the top world producer of solar cells, and may eventually develop a monopoly over time. ...

Storage demands continue to growth in the wake of digital growth and evolution. Digital storage management requires a prudent approach to life-cycle management.

Money transfer Goliath Western Union is moving to co-opt the threat posed by hybrid mobile phone/stored value card person-to-person remittances. At a minimum Western Union’s new service is a validation of remote mobile phone-based money transfer and makes it likely it will achieve meaningful market...

As AMD and other semiconductor companies continue to spin their wheels, lay off engineers, consolidate product lines further, and watch their executives walk out the door, leading to a major decline in revenue, hopefully they will try to replicate the Intel model for doing business in...

However it is resolved Neiman Marcus’s ugly spat with HSBC is a harbinger of a deteriorating credit environment and of Neiman Marcus’s coveted private label (P/L) credit card portfolio being in play in 2010.

MasterCard, which has long been a laggard in the US pin-debit market, continues to improve its offer and match-up against Visa, Star, NYCE, Pulse and Accel. It’s now positioned to move from the back of the pack and through additional processing to capture more of its transactions’ value.