November 26, 2015
US: DOJ investigating Comcast for advertising antitrust issues

Back when regulators blocked Comcast’s attempted acquisition of Time Warner Cable, there were rumblings that some of what was uncovered during the review would come back and haunt Comcast. Among...

November 18, 2015
US: Could Hulu sell stake to Time Warner?

Hulu, the streaming service owned by three media companies, is in talks to add Time Warner as a fourth investor, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The deal...

November 18, 2015
Macy’s Customers Drive A Discounting Addiction

In an age when retailers fight tooth and nail to retain every customer, brands are used to offering extra incentives to sweeten the pot for reluctant buyers. Some merchants might employ...

November 13, 2015
Breaking Up Now Available As On-Demand Service

Why can’t the efficiency of on-demand services extend to ending a romantic relationship? With the Breakup Shop, now it can. A Motherboard writer has tested out the new service —...

November 12, 2015
The Big Drop: Retail’s Rough Record In October

English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller once (roughly) said “it is always darkest before the dawn.” It is a saying we imagine has been on the minds of the nation’s...

October 29, 2015
What We Learned About On-Demand Consumers This Week

We live in the age of the on-demand customers, a reality measurable by various metrics. You can measure it in money and the flow of investment dollars. In 2014, VCs...

October 26, 2015
Earnings Edition Pt. 1: Amazon, Amex and eBay

There are many reasons to fall behind the news. Sometimes the news is so terribly uninteresting to watch that it just seems better to stick with Netflix. Sometimes the news...

October 22, 2015
Slow Shoppers, YouTube For Pay And Pinterest For Profit

The early part of this week saw the mainstream media more or less ruled by three basic topics: Joe Biden, the movie “Back to the Future II” and the Chicago...

October 22, 2015
Controversial Cybersecurity Bill Reaches Senate Floor

After much debate and protest, the long-delayed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) finally arrived to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday (Oct. 20). The controversial cybersecurity bill intends to make it...