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LG, Samsung head to market with new Android flagship candidates

There's just one flagship iPhone running Apple's iOS platform, but a variety of Android licensees are duking it out to define a hardware candidate that can win over premium buyers. One big obstacle: no hardware makers have any ability to materially stray too far from Google's commodity Android software platform.

Coca-Cola’s clever new trick.

Earlier this week, Coca-Cola reported its latest earnings with a big smile, boasting that global soda volume sales rose in the last three months of 2015.

The news suggests things might not be as bad as they seem in the soda universe — even in the United States, the largest market in the world, where Coca-Cola has seen its sales plummet amid a growing distaste for carbonated drinks.

But it's also a testament to the success of a clever little trick the soda industry has adopted in tough times: selling its product in smaller packages.

For decades, soda makers nudged people to drink more with ever-larger cans, bottles and cups. That strategy, however, has failed in recent years, as the narrative about the harms of drinking soda has intensified. So they have opted to do the opposite, shipping carbonated drinks out in smaller servings in hopes it will make soda sexy again.