At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California’s similar law, Facebook’s ongoing costs and stock price plunge in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica...
Here come the insurance discounts — presumably. And, no doubt, the tensions over who gets a piece of the pie. Connected cars are coming — actually, they are already here, but they will soon be moving into the mainstream, according to even the most sober...
Despite the fact that Americans spend over $60 billion per year trying to lose weight in the U.S., obesity in the United States has reached epidemic levels. According to a late 2017 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 40 percent of American adults...
Long gone are the days of waiting outside with other fans to score tickets to the boss rock show of the summer. Now, instead of sore feet and clothes that stink of cheap cigarettes by the time you get home with your paper prize, mobile...
Connections are about control: Who provides and oversees the connecting pieces? Who maintains the flow of goods, services, people and data through those connections? What do the connections connect to themselves? Less abstractly, the future of the automotive industry — along with the payment and...
Think of it, perhaps, as the race to become the best backseat driver. As car manufacturers, software providers, payments and commerce players and others build the connected vehicle ecosystem, there is increasing experimentation and competition in regards to the best operating systems to install. Recent...
Will younger consumers ever know the unique joy of learning to drive on a gas-guzzling Detroit beater — one of those big cars that were more like boats than automobiles, and which might have left one stranded on a Friday date night because of an ill-timed...
The launch on Tuesday (June 19) of a new eCommerce option for shoppers seeking makeup, hair care products, fragrances and similar products represents the expansion of another frontier for online shopping. Feelunique, an online retailer of cosmetics and other items, said that is has become a...
When Facebook announced its intention to get into the dating game a few months back, it managed a rare feat: The company got back to its roots while stepping boldly forward into the next evolution of monetizing the power of its platform. Back to its...
