Now that over 100 million people are using mobile dating apps—with over 50 million users using Tinder alone!— online dating is now a $2 billion dollar industry. And now that using technology to find a date has now become the most popular way for singles to meet, [Read More]
Since early January I’ve been reporting on the many trends of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show: Drones, smarthome appliances, wearables—but one trend I was most surprised to see make such an impact was that of Baby Tech. From Fisher Price’s cool Code-a-Pillar that [Read More]
According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 60% of all girls between the ages of 13 and 17 are gamers, yet 76% of solo video game protagonists are male. Over 42% of females own a console, compared to 37 percent of males, and yet for every 5 [Read More]
2016 has already started out with a bang: The Powerball jackpot paid out over a billion dollars while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been down since the first of the January. We’ve lost actor Alan Rickman, American judge and first woman to serve on the New [Read More]
With tech growing at an exponential rate, being a digital immigrant is no easy feat. Dr. Yalda Uhls is a researcher, Director at Common Sense Media, and she’s the author of Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact, Not Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age. [Read More]
Neither rain, nor mudslides, nor flight delays have stopped the 200,000-plus attendees and over 3,600 exhibitors from around the globe from getting to this biggest consumer tech show of the year. CES 2016 has drones, virtual reality, wearables, 3D TVS, OLED laptops, and especially smarthome appliances—anything and everything [Read More]
Just like his Twitter description reads, “You may know him from playing Mr. Sulu in Star Trek” but he hopes you know him more for being outspoken about human rights, the funniest guy on Facebook, and for starring in the Broadway hit, [Read More]
Now that mobile payments currently account for a little more than half of all e-commerce, mobile ticketing can also help increase revenue for ticket vendors and entertainment events alike. No-shows and empty seats are a thing of the past as mobile ticket providers can [Read More]
Currently over 60% of smartphone owners have downloaded some sort of travel-related app. Of those, 30% have booked a last minute reservation from their phone and 24% of both business and leisure travelers have paid for their trip via mobile, all totaling an estimated $150 billion dollars spent [Read More]
