John Rogers

pay by touch

Washed-up NFL players want money back from SF startup

Seven former NFL football players — including Drew Bledsoe — are suing UBS, a Swiss bank, for investing their money in collapsed electronic-payments firm Pay By Touch. They claim the bank neglected to mention that Pay By Touch's founder, alleged cocaine addict John Rogers, was once charged with a felony. We'd love to know how an investment bank's lawyers would have framed this disclaimer in legalese. More »

3:40 PM on Tue Aug 26 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,118 views, 5 comments

Most discussed Tiki Tonga: Not true. Drew Bledsoe was very good. more »

deathwatch

Requiescat in pace, Pay By Touch

Biometrics payments firm Pay By Touch shuttered for good yesterday. The last remaining client retailers will unplug their Pay By Touch fingerprint payment machines Thursday morning, a tipster tells us. He goes on to say, "I hope that piece of shit John Rogers goes to jail." Wishful thinking: Past run-ins with the legal system don't seem to have taught him anything.

12:37 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,693 views, 8 comments

Latest by Slartey: @lucia1: As you said, you met him briefly - anyone can be charming for a short period of time. It more »

deathwatch

John Rogers's Pay By Touch finally falls apart

Here's John Rogers. He's morally and financially bankrupt. He's a once-convicted felon with addiction problems and a taste for threatening strangers and lovers. And his dream is dead. More »

2:40 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
3,052 views, Comment

bloggers

Pay By Touch threatens to sue over blog post

Biometrics payments firm Pay By Touch is selling assets in "a mad scramble to recover any money whatsoever that our convicted Google stardom dreaming leader John Rogers pissed away," a tipster tells us. One of those assets was Pay By Touch subsidiary ATM Direct, a business Alex Muse and other Texas investors were hoping to acquire. But that didn't happen. To explain why, Muse wrote a post to his Texas Startup Blog. It's critical of Pay By Touch. Critical enough that Pay By Touch chief Thomas Lumsden threatened Muse with a lawsuit if he didn't remove it. Below, we've reposted the whole thing. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,016 views, 6 comments

Latest by PhoebeMalinkoo: Once a fellow offered to buy my boat for $3000 with $500 down and monthly payments - I sold it more »

bankruptcy

Creditors attempt to block Pay By Touch shutdown

A tipster tells us top management at Pay By Touch, the biometrics payments firm run into the ground by felon John Rogers and now struggling in bankruptcy, has auctioned off its "core assets" in an attempt to pay off creditors. That may not be the case: On Friday, a party of creditors filed a restraining order with a court in Los Angeles to prevent management from "shutting down the operations of Pay By Touch Payment Solutions" — its main business. A shutdown, presumably, would only come after a failed attempt to sell the operation. How touching that someone still wants Pay By Touch to stay in business.

3:00 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,363 views, Comment

rumormonger

Scandalous ex-CEO's mom to leave Pay By Touch

Remember John Rogers, the former CEO of Pay By Touch? He's morally and financially bankrupt. He's a once-convicted felon with addiction problems and a taste for threatening strangers and lovers alike. Rogers is, in other words, the type of guy only a mother could love. But now, even she's had it. Though Rogers remains on Pay By Touch's board, his mother, Judy Nelson, is out as Pay By Touch HR head, marking the end of a controversial tenure. More »

11:40 AM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,099 views, Comment

john rogers

Bankrupt founder to stay on Pay By Touch board

The financially and morally bankrupt John Rogers remains involved with the company he founded, Pay By Touch employees learned during an all-hands meeting Friday. Though the company no longer employs the once-convicted felon and confirmed bully, Rogers will remain on the board of directors. How could this be? More »

10:36 AM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
1,756 views, 5 comments

Latest by sftecher: The blog is factual! V4VISTA obviously has no idea of what has being going on or is in denial of more »

deathwatch

Pay By Touch entering Chapter 11, selling subsidiaries

Failed biometrics payments firm Pay By Touch has filed voluntarily for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will sell subsidiaries ATM Direct and CardSystems, employees learned during an all-hands on Friday. During the meeting, Pay By Touch COO Eula Adams asked employees to remain positive. Then he virtually assured that wouldn't happen by explaining the company's payroll situation. More »

8:11 AM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
1,600 views, 4 comments

Latest by jackflash: It would help if their biometric payments revenuecould support more than two employees. Cood luck on that Chapter 11! more »

deathwatch

A Pay By Touch supplier's tale of woe

Michael Barnes, the president of NorhTec, a computer hardware maker, says he's been royally stiffed by Pay By Touch, the troubled biometrics company now under court supervision. Stiffed to the tune of $3 million in promised orders, including more than half a million dollars in unpaid shipments. Former Pay By Touch CEO John Rogers left behind not just 750 angry employees with jobs on the line, and investors whose $300 million in funding looks unlikely to return much. To that list of aggrieved parties add suppliers like Barnes, who filled orders for the failing company but say they haven't been paid. Perversely, Barnes is rooting for the company to make a comeback, if only so he'll have a chance of getting what he's owed. Here's Barnes's story: More »

12:20 PM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
1,697 views, 6 comments

Latest by 0x6772: "Welcome to NorhTec - the Next Generation of Network Computing," you know, after Larry Ellison couldn't make it work three more »

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