Walking is a great way to stay fit, but it's sometimes difficult to stay motivated. Thankfully, these mobile applications not only help you keep track of your walking, but they pay you to do so.

Closing your exercise rings or hitting your daily step count are satisfying achievements that can help kick-start healthy ...

Like many 17-year-olds, Will Coleman was a bundle of energy, playing competitive soccer while juggling classes as a high ...

From stomping on Koopas and collecting coins as Mario to "catching 'em all" in Pokemon, we and countless others were enthralled by video games during our childhoods. It was our guilty pleasure, much ...

The UK financial regulator has expressed concerns over the gamification of trading apps, saying it is pushing consumers “towards more frequent or riskier trading”. On the back of an experiment with ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The UK watchdog built an experimental trading app platform to ...

Something creeped me out one recent week when two separate PR sources pitched me on new gamification approaches powered by Metaverse technologies. It probably did not help that I was still reeling ...

Bunchball launched a sales gamification app for Salesforce.com a year ago as a kind of interesting experiment in motivating a sales force through game-like incentives. Today, the company is unveiling ...

While the worlds of apps and mobile games are often compared competitively, gamification and M&A are bringing these two worlds increasingly close together.

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The Long Game app attempts to change how users engage with ...

Ashok Kamal is cofounder and CEO of green social media marketing company Bennu. When I told VentureBeat I wanted to write a piece about the rise of green gamification — the use of games to make ...