Don’t count out brick-and-mortar retail when it comes to new shopping tech. Even as stores close and chains shrink, new ways of doing business could bring more customers into stores and get them better engaged with merchants. What’s coming next for physical stores, and what could work to make them better?  Read More...

The world of digital dating has seen a sea change in the last month, as Facebook has formally entered the waters and made the space a lot more crowded and competitive. But Tinder is intent on battling back — and if it can't outdraw Facebook on size and scale, it will try to win the race with some (very) outside-the-box thinking about gamifying the quest for companionship. Here's why.  Read More...

Bringing Holdouts Into The Digital Age

With so much of the world gone digital, it's easy to forget that not every segment is quite there yet. From B2B payments to cash-based customers, there are still lots of players who are mostly sitting out the great digital transformation — though perhaps for not much longer.  Read More...