• Video: Q&A With Red Laser's Rob Veres and PayPal's Laura Chambers

    Jay Donovan

    By night, Jay writes for TechCrunch and has been contributing to the blog since 2009. By day, he manages Digital Strategy for Alliance Data. Prior to that, he held Art Director and Designer jobs at GSW Worldwide and Resource Interactive leading interaction design and mobile prototype projects. You can reach reach him at jaydonovan at crunchgear dot com. → Learn More

    Thursday, March 17th, 2011

    Here in Austin, Texas the Interactive portion of SXSW, with the exception of the trade show, has come to an end. The conference rages on though as the music portion is really just getting underway. I can hear the music pumping outside my hotel room as I write this. But before the interactive side completed yesterday, I attended a fairly interesting panel called “What’s In Your Virtual Wallet” that featured Red Laser’s Rob Veres and PayPal’s Laura Chambers. We spoke shortly afterward about how the two companies are using their apps and services in new ways for marketing, mobile payments and remote commerce. Video below.