Though shoppers may not be as zealous for doorbuster Black Friday deals as they used to be, online retailers have picked up the slack in a major way this holiday shopping season. The traditional post-Thanksgiving retail tentpole has largely spread itself across an entire weekend and...
Ever since the early, AOL-inspired days of the Internet, the average consumer has known the dangers that inadvertently visiting compromised sites poses for the health of a computer. However, with the profusion of connected portable devices nowadays, is the mobile Web protected like its desktop counterpart?...
The Internet of Things can seem more like concept and theory than hard, incontrovertible fact at times, but recent research might suggest that the IoT is approaching a breaking point that could see connectivity become a defining point in the lives of urban residents everywhere. According...
According to new information released by the Federal Reserve yesterday (Dec. 7), Americans took on debt at a slower rate in Oct. 2015, indicating more cautious spending on the part of consumers. Outstanding consumer debt, which reflects all non-mortgage debt in the U.S., was up...
Visions of sugar plum online profits may be dancing in retailers’ heads. Bloomberg said on Monday (Dec. 7) that the months of November and December can hold as much as 30 percent of a retailer’s top line in just a few weeks — no surprise, given the...
A mobile transportation ticket provider just got $12 million to ride. That was the amount of the round announced yesterday (Dec. 7) by transport ticket solutions company Masabi, creator of the cloud-based, end-to-end mobile ticketing and fare collection system, JustRide. New investors in the round...
It’s a common trope in the tech startup world that very few successful companies end up resembling their initial iterations. YouTube was originally envisioned as a video dating community, and even Twitter began as a side project ancillary to the founders’ primary goal of making...
There are few experiences in life more frustrating than being out, hungry and unable to find a table without a wait. If Immediate.ly is successful, it is a pain and indignity no human will ever have to endure again. The brainchild of London-based developer Dan Cohen...
While the Ford Model T has been venerated over the years as the robust start to an American automotive tradition, the truth is that early cars provided just as much hassle as they did convenience. Not only did most models have to be hand cranked...
