Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3c28c02f/gang_of_four_and) has announced the addition of Javelin Strategy & Research's new report "Gang of Four (and Possibly Five) Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon - and PayPal: Positioning for Payments in the New Mobile-Social Technology Era" to their offering.
We are at the beginning of a new technology cycle as consumer adoption of mobile and social media extends the reach of the web and integrates those media into the physical world. Facebook is only eight years old, and yet its planned $5 billion IPO is the largest Internet IPO ever. As in every new technology cycle, network effects make room for new players and the creation and destruction of vast amounts of wealth.
The Gang of Four:
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google is a group of network players entering the banking and payments environment. How will the strengths and weaknesses of the Gang of Four play against those of major financial institutions, payment networks, and wireless carriers? Surprisingly, PayPal rates on equal footing with the Gang of Four when it comes to innovation and emerges as a possible leader in the next tech cycle.
This report will focus on the relationship of brands to consumer perceptions of trust, innovation, and privacy in order to identify opportunities and threats.
Primary Questions:
- What is the newest technology cycle? Which brands are positioned to take advantage of the next cycle?
- What models are developing that will intersect with the financial services space?
- How will the strengths and weaknesses of the Gang of Four play against those of major financial institutions, payment networks, and wireless carriers?
- How well do consumers trust the Gang of Four compared with the major financial institution, payment network, and wireless carrier brands when it comes to their financial information?
- How do consumers rate the Gang of Four compared with the major financial institution, payment network and wireless carrier brands when it comes to protecting their private information?
- Which brands are viewed as most innovative?
- How do customers of the primary financial institutions rate their own institutions on the issues of trust, innovation, and privacy?
- How should brands position themselves to best compete in the new technology cycle?
Companies Mentioned:
- Amazon
- American Express
- Apple
- AT&T
- Bank of America
- Chase
- Citibank
- Discover
- MasterCard
- Microsoft
- PayPal
- Research In Motion
- Sprint
- U.S. Bank
- Verizon
- Visa
- Wells Fargo
- zvelo
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Source: Javelin Strategy & Research