Psychology

With Instagram’s current growth trajectory not slowing down anytime soon, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s $1 billion acquisition of the photo-sharing app five years ago may go down as one of the smartest investments of all time. With over 700 million users and 400 million people serving as daily...

Two of the largest marketplaces on the dark net are now no more. This week, U.S. and European officials announced they have shut down both AlphaBay and Hansa Market, two of the largest online black markets in the world. The dark net is a concealed part of the internet that users access via special...

Recently, when Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen went up to Capitol Hill for her semi-annual monetary policy testimony, the market was caught unawares. Traders have begun to discount an environment, where the fed funds rate would continue to rise steadily and by small increments, and the incoming...

Much has been made of the recent Washington Post/ABC News poll showing President Donald Trump’s approval rating hitting 36 percent, a historic 70-year low in the history of polls. But a Gallup survey that grabbed less attention delves more deeply into what ticks off people the most: his...

In this era of technology dependence, whenever a person needs information, they Google it by using Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s search engine. But, what is the first step consumers take when they are searching for a product to buy? According to Statista, they skip the search...

It started with a group of guys who liked comic books and blew up into the biggest pop culture marketing opportunity of the year, filling all 11 acres of the San Diego Convention Center and sprawling outside into infinity and beyond. The 47th annual San Diego Comic-Con is being held while one of...

If you want to know where Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is going, just look at where they aren’t. It’s a perfect road map to the future. The company, which turned just 22 years old on July 16, has spread its tentacles considerably of late, moving into supermarkets, contemplating...

At Grocer Farm Market, the liquor store Harry Nisso manages on a tough block of 2nd Avenue in Detroit, some customers have asked for the removal of high-definition cameras installed just six months ago through the city’s Project Green Light program. Why? “They want to sell drugs around...

He’s back. And judging from the retro-style media attention he’s getting, it’s like O.J. Simpson never went away. After nearly nine years into a maximum term of 33 years for kidnapping and armed robbery, the one-time NFL icon was granted his freedom on Thursday by the four-member...

Coca-Cola (KO) has been under pressure for a few years. KO is up roughly 33% since 2012. The S&P 500 is up roughly 88% over the same time frame. They have sought to streamline their business and have divested a lot of assets. But the clouds are still dark for Coke. KO has three major problems...

With the rise of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)’s YouTube and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)’s Instagram, economic decisions have become a lot more social. Consumers are exposed to the product interests and sentiment of their peers and, consciously or not, adjust their shopping...

The Church of Scientology has been issued a permit to complete $8 million in work on a building it bought 10 years ago in the heart of downtown Detroit. The permit outlines renovations to both the interior and exterior at the 50,000-square-foot historic former Standard Savings & Loan Building,...

Scientists say they’ve figured out how much plastics the world has produced, and the numbers aren’t pretty. Of the 9.15 billion tons produced since plastics began their heyday in the 1950s, 6.95 billion tons is packed into landfills or littered elsewhere in the environment. That’s...

For fast-food restaurant operators, the period between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. is referred to as the "fast-food dead zone" as it is smack in between the lunch and dinner hours. In McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD)'s case, a whopping 95 percent of customers show up outside of these...

Constant connectivity and the emergence of smartphones has forever changed the way people consume content. Attention spans aren’t what they used to be. It's this reason that creates a preference for quick engaging content, and has led to the rise to the proliferation of GIFs for...