Hoverboards news and trends

Barbie Goes Future Tech With Smart Home, Hoverboard
Retail // February 19, 2016

Say what you will about Barbie, but you can’t accuse her of not being an early adopter. As TechCrunch points out, although the advent of smart home technology has yet to gain a real foothold among flesh-and-blood consumers, that hasn’t stopped Mattel from implementing voice-enabled features...

When Payments Fraud Hovers Nearby
News // December 22, 2015

A lesson in online merchant security has come from a rather unlikely place: a slew of fraudulent purchases of rapper Soulja Boy’s hoverboards. Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap, discusses with MPD CEO Karen Webster how the cybercrime went down -- and what merchants can do...

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No More Hoverboards On Amazon

February 25, 2016
The most recent setback to hoverboard retail may be its biggest one yet. It wasn’t that more of the futuristic devices exploded; rather, it’s the fact that Amazon — as CNET reports — has announced it will stop selling them. The outlet shares that the eCommerce giant removed all hoverboards from its site earlier this week — […]