VTech Electronics Limited will settle with the Federal Trade Commission for $650,000 after a data breach exposed kids' personal information. In the FTC’s first children’s privacy case involving connected toys, kids’ information had been collected without parents’ knowledge or consent — data that VTech falsely claimed it would encrypt. Here’s where the company went wrong and what other connected toymakers can learn from its mistakes.  Read More...

Users of Uber and Lyft know that rides can cost more — so much more — during peak times. But the ridesharing giants are hardly the first companies to pioneer the use of surge pricing. The simple concept of raising or lowering prices based on demand, in one form or another, has been a pricing strategy employed for years. How does it work for some but not for others?  Read More...

Burp. That’s the sound of venture capital backing slowly away from the table of meal kits, a table that is currently heaped and groaning under the weight of dozens and dozens of players. Here’s why plenty is sometimes too much, and too much work for the consumers who are churning fast from names like Blue Apron.  Read More...