Last week, after five years of debates, discussions, arguments and waiting, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) final rules for payday lending dropped. As one...
Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand...
Though many retailers have assumed millennials are behind the trend toward highly digitized, online-focused shopping experiences, baby boomers might be the real culprits. “The retail...
Halloween might be the scariest holiday (unless, of course, you’re a parent, in which case Christmas is the hands-down winner every year), but it’s not...
Everybody eats. A brief look at our nation’s Instagram feeds or BMI averages quickly confirms that Americans eat far more often than necessity requires. We...
What have we learned from the Equifax hack? Maybe nothing? Maybe everything? Maybe something in between? The stats are alarming, of course. Equifax, which is one of...
“It is not about changing the swipe or dip to a tap; it’s about using a [smart]phone to do things that you could not otherwise do.”...
There are many ways to a signature innovation, and in some cases great platforms have been created out of great and timely pivots. Such was...
We’ve all been there. Desperate to eat a fresh lobster dinner in the middle of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, unable to order up...