Fitness and weight-loss service Retrofit combines technology-based behaviour tracking with human support to help customers lose weight, and claims that 90% of them do. The $150 per month programme provides a "hugging and kicking" tough love service.

Snapchat has 30 million active users. What makes it so appealing is its temporal nature: that risqué photo sent on a whim can’t be dragged up months later. Can Sobrr, a geo-located social network that lasts for just 24 hours, change how we interact on boozy nights out?

With unsecured debt in the US at $2.6 trillion, personal finance startup Payoff is turning to behavioural science to help individuals save money. As people seek new tools to manage daily life, what makes Payoff a success?

Ever since TripAdvisor came onto the scene, guests have been able to review hotels. But what if the tables were turned and hotels were able to review guests? One hotel in Australia is about to find out with a new social experiment called ‘reverse reviews’ that offers well behaved guests rewards.

As young Australians head for bright city lights, Melbourne has become the nation's fastest growing area. But how do their parents get them to visit home out in the sticks? A campaign by Victoria’s public transport operator V/Line let people guilt trip their kids into returning.

Whether you're a woman eating on the Tube, or a sleeping commuter, the combination of social media and smartphones mean that no public space is safe to do anything you wouldn't want caught on camera. Is it just a bit of harmless fun, or something a little more sinister?

Oxfam International is unveiling a new communications campaign, Behind The Brands. The initiative is live in 12 countries and ranks the social and environmental policies of the world's 10 biggest food and beverage companies with a scorecard.

It’s been described byCosmopolitanas “Sex and the Citymarries Facebook”. But is women-only app Lulu, where men are ‘reviewed’ by their exes, anything more than a reversal of the increasingly prominent online objectification of women?