Everything else is getting smarter these days — homes, phones, wearables and even clothing — so why shouldn’t the same standard apply to automotive wheels? Yes, wheels promise to gain more intelligence in the coming years — a reflection not only of the emerging ecosystem of connected...
The season of good cheer is upon us. Well, that depends on what side of the retail aisle you’re talking about. In eCommerce? Boom times a plenty, it seems, as double-digit sales growth marked Black Friday into Cyber Monday. And early stats coming into the...
Between 1983 and 1984, three retailers opened in the United States that would drastically alter the landscape by introducing a new business model to consumers. The retailers were Costco, Sam’s Club and BJ’s and the mode was wholesale club for consumers. While the specifics vary...
It’s said that change is the only constant in life. So it is with business, with payments, with the ways we pay — when and even where and certainly how. The ripple effects of the digital age have touched the ways firms manage cash, and...
The holidays are approaching. The money that comes into retailers’ coffers at brick-and-mortar locations will filter up to pay the landlord; the landlord will stay afloat. Perhaps not. There is a big bet riding on that “perhaps not.” It’s become standard practice to point to...
With so many mobile wallets littering the landscape, it can be hard to keep up with everything that is already out there, let alone trying to keep track of all the newcomers. But some players are so large that their entrance into just about anything...
Bit by bit the dozens of attorneys general looking at Google are expanding how — along with where and why — they are examining the tech giant. Perhaps we could call it “antitrust creep.” News came at the end of this week that the 5o...
The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. Emily Dickinson once wrote that “hope is the thing with feathers.” This illustration applies nicely to the...
Optimism can be contagious. A can-do attitude can rally the troops, get things done, spark innovation where once the status quo was, well, good enough. Then there’s optimism that is, if not whistling past the graveyard, at least humming a few bars. For the Libra...