An estimated 14% of U.S. smartphone users 35 or older are on messaging appSnapchat faces a dilemma. As more adults sign up for the social media messaging app, many teens and college-aged students, which helped Snapchat amass a 150 million daily active user base, have become frustrated that the platform is no longer cool. Paris Zeikos says he noticed a surprising trend on Snapchat. Parents have...

Games M&A hit a record $18.6 billion in the first half of the year, in a clear sign of late stage market consolidation. The biggest deal was the massive mobile consolidation of 84.3% of Supercell by Tencent for $8.6 billion at a $10.2 billion valuation in Q2, after King’s $5.9 billion acquisition by Activision-Blizzard closed in the first quarter. But those whoppers weren’t the only mobil...

Is this the future of warfare? Armies could someday GROW their own drones using massive tubs of chemicals, says BAE SystemsThe 'Chemputer' could provide a significant advantage by slashing production times from years to a matter of weeks- Advanced chemical engineering processes would see small-scale drones and components produced in large vatsAnother BAE concept involves hypersonic rapid respon...

A robot-powered burger joint is coming to San Francisco.In 2012, secretive robotics startup Momentum Machines debuted a machine that could crank out 400 made-to-order hamburgers in an hour. It's fully autonomous, meaning the robot can slice toppings, grill a patty, and assemble and bag the burger without any help from humans. The internet flipped out.Years of relative silence ensued, but in Jan...

According to comScore data, an average household in the United States has 10 active connected devices; households with 4 or more people even have 19 devices on average.These days, people no longer have to load up their computers to connect to the internet. Many now own a myriad of connected devices as the internet has extended its reach beyond the office and into the living room. Today’s chart...

HourlyNerd, a Boston-based startup, aspires to be more than an on-demand staffing service for skilled employees. It wants to be a full-service platform for large companies to change the way they think about employees.“If you think about a company today, it’s structured in the same way as 100 years ago,” says company co-CEO and co-founder Rob Biederman. HourlyNerd sees a future where companie...

Andrea Ponti made an attempt to design smartwatches especially designed to be integrated with smart cars. There are concepts: Smartwatch A and Smartwatch B, both are dedicated to work with smart platforms such as phones, tablets, computers, including smart cars. This integration makes it possible to link smart objects with a web of connectivity, this creates better connection between the driver...

Indian customers are among the most unforgiving in the world, and they’re costing some companies a lot of money.Nearly 88% of Indian consumers have switched brands or service providers in the past year, frustrated by poor service, according to a survey conducted by consulting firm Accenture. Almost 25,000 people in 33 countries were interviewed. Indians topped the list when surveyed on their w...

BETC's packaging solution to the beverage's unusual problem.Lots of Orangina's marketing is about shaking up bottles of the stuff—to mix up the pulp, which makes the carbonated citrus beverage taste better."An advertising guy told me there was a weakness, and we're going to make a strength out of this weakness by saying, 'The bottle needs to be shaken,' " Orangina's founder, Jean-Claude Beton,...