Plagiarism has made its way from traditional journalism-related courses to computer science programs across the country. But instead of copying papers and...
If there’s anything that retail should learn from the now-deposed king of social media outrage Martin Shkreli, it’s that consumers always have...
Shakespeare famously wrote that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but that poetic sentiment doesn’t quite translate when...
Just about every retailer entered the 2015 holiday shopping season beating their chests with increasingly ambitious shipping options for hard-to-please consumers. This...
Beacons are often touted as the next evolution of retail marketing for in-store merchants, but there’s been a conspicuous lack of observable...
Hotels are in the business of giving consumers what they want. However, as one generation of consumers is replaced by another, it...
Microsoft and Sony could be in for a bummer of a Christmas if a hacking collective makes good on its promise to...
What’s in a brand name? Perhaps not much… unless it’s got the word “tobacco” in it, in which case that’s very, very...
To the casual observer, it would seem like hoverboards’ moment in the sun is finally starting to end. When the gadgets burst...
There’s no denying that in terms of cutting-edge innovations, online retailers are usually quicker on the uptake than their in-store counterparts. However,...
While consumers are more than happy to play around with the latest and greatest gadgets startups can dream up, if there’s one...
Firearms are far from an afterthought this holiday season. While issues of gun control continue to circulate within the White House, on...
Luck favors the bold in life and in retail, and no company lives by this maxim more than Amazon. Granted, being an industry...
Toys talking to kids? Not really a new thing. Toys taking information that kids speak to them, uploading it to a database...
There is an elephant in the room in 2015, which is that Christmas is coming and no one is feeling all that...
Meet Black Friday’s cousin that not as many people talk about: “Blackout Wednesday” -- the day before Thanksgiving, which is one of...
Free delivery? Buy online, pick up in-store? Different retailers are saying ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ to a number of different options for getting...
When retailers run afoul of their customers’ sensitivities on social media, what’s the best way to go about things? Should brands admit...
English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller once (roughly) said “it is always darkest before the dawn.” It is a saying we imagine...
Consumer outrage has come early this holiday season, all stirred up by the innocuous design of a paper beverage container provided by...
BlackBerry was once mobile’s resident unstoppable giant. At its absolute peak, it held an estimated 70 percent of the mobile phone market,...
A new global phishing scam is targeting roughly 800 million individuals with Apple IDs, according to a report from the Comodo Antispam Labs....
The last two weeks have capped off what has been a less than spectacular three-month run for Walmart. The third quarter of...
While retail executives are mostly background players, this week they’ve been oddly front and center. And two execs, in particular, made the...
When it comes to the U.S. economy, fall 2015 by the numbers has been less than totally inspiring. Gross Domestic Product, the...
It’s no surprise that Black Friday has a less-than-stellar reputation among the general public (even those who can’t resist in participating in...
For major retail chains, there’s no cinematic slasher as scary as the very real phenomenon of fast fashion. Where did it come...
We live in the age of the on-demand customers, a reality measurable by various metrics. You can measure it in money and...
As of 2015, it is no longer really controversial to name data and its successful use as one of the key arrows...
Merchants are obsessed with building brand loyalty and have spent much of the last half decade investing millions (or, more likely, billions)...
Banks no longer want big deposits, and they seem willing to charge institutional clients for keeping dollars parked in their accounts.
A few short weeks ago, daily fantasy sports sites seemed poised to have their biggest year yet. The two biggest companies in...
How the heck can a celebrity lifestyle brand stay afloat while selling $300 T-shirts that consumers openly mock? The answer may lie...
Americans hit the road en masse this weekend. A little-known fact is that Columbus Day is actually the second most road traffic-producing...
China’s cross border payments system debuted this week to little fanfare. The hours are short, for one thing. Here’s what bears watching...
In retail it is always more or less raining data. With hundreds of millions of consumers, millions of stores, hundreds of thousands...
A new malicious adware family is quickly spreading across Android mobile devices and China-based cybercriminals are allegedly behind the widespread attack.
It was only a matter of time before the meteoric rise of daily fantasy sites like DraftKings and FanDuel suffered a setback,...
EMV and chip and pin are the big stories now. But a recent set of guidelines from the PCI Security Standards Council...
Let’s set the record straight on one thing: EMV and bitcoin have nothing to do with each other. Outside of the fact that...
When does the volume of a company’s advertising risk being bad for business? As daily fantasy football brands have experienced, it might...
Apple is used to landmark product launches, but September was a singular month for the tech giant. In the space of nine...
Can anybody beat Amazon? Not at its own game, it would appear. But Colin Robinson, Co-Founder of independent publisher OR Books, believes...
We all know the story of David and Goliath — in fact everyone knows it so well it’s the go-to metaphor for...
Alternative lending is such a part of the mainstream that it’s easy to forget just how fast it has gotten so big....
Every adult knows that when faced the proposition to buy with designer shoes at Payless prices, or a pair of designer sunglasses...
You don’t get to snag the top slot on the Payments Innovation Index (Pii360) – the rankings of the largest 100 companies...
Traditionally an option only for wealthy investors, equity crowdfunding is now open for even the smallest players – just as the traditional...
While the majority of people have heard the expression “always leave them wanting more,” most of them are unaware there is a...