Google has marketed Glass as an all-around smartphone replacement to be worn by the general — albeit affluent — consumer all day long. (The company has not said what it will charge consumers for Glass, but Explorers, those lucky few getting to try an …

Treating the choices that parents make as education consumers as political choices is misleading. Charter schools' gains, many suggest, depend on an uneven playing field with policies that allow for selective … Virtually every measure of school …

The Indian consumer is getting credit- prudent. More people are now swiping their debit cards instead of credit cards. Another discernable change: credit card users are increasingly getting punctual in paying up and fewer roll over their payments. Not …

China is undergoing a period of change, as it transforms from an export-driven manufacturer to a consumer focused economy. Urbanisation is supporting the consumption dynamic, in addition to an increasingly affluent middle class. Global growth over the …

The 24 percent of Americans who buy green products from eco-friendly companies are affluent early adopters, the most loyal segment of consumers and are willing to pay more for a brand they trust, making them a particularly desirable target audience, …

The nonprofit Consumer Watchdog wrote to the attorney general on June 12th urging him "to block Google's just announced $1 billion acquisition of Waze, developers of a mobile mapping application, on antitrust grounds… Google already dominates the …

Farmstacker was one of the few apps to come out of the hackathon that focused on producers rather than consumers. Other award winners included an app to help “cow sharing” and a Google Glass app (built by engineers from … We — and when I say “we,” I …

It has focused its marketing efforts toward the more affluent portion of the population, a strategy which results in somewhat higher service and per-transaction operations costs that it makes up in part with higher merchant fees. None of this is secret …

In this case, let's forget the affluent geezer who buys stuff from abroad. Ignore that snob and critically ask why folks don't go … But heck, don't you traders always pass on extra costs to the consumer? Who says we give a rat's tail for paying a …