( Tobyotter ) When’s the last time you went to a Frisch’s Big Boy? Can’t remember, or maybe you don’t have one nearby? The chain’s new bo...
Broadcasters Association Sues FCC Over Cable Competition Rules
( DCvision2006 ) Under federal law, a city can regulate cable TV rates for its residents if there is not “effective competition” in that ...
Subway Hoping A New Look Will Help Turn Things Around In 2016
( Mandy Jansen ) Even before the public face of Subway became embroiled in a child pornography scandal, the nation’s largest fast food ch...
Quickie Las Vegas Wedding Industry Just Isn’t Pulling In Couples Like It Used To
( funny strange or funny ha ha ) While running off to Sin City to get married by an Elvis impersonator used to evoke a certain spontaneou...
Dish Taking Away Users’ Right To Sue Company In Court. Here’s How To Opt Out
( Brady O’Brien ) Over the weekend, a number of Consumerist readers wrote to us with the bad news that, like a growing number of companie...
After FDA Warning, Kim Kardashian Posts Corrected Endorsement Of Morning Sickness Pill
Kim Kardashian issued a corrected endorsement for morning sickness pill after the FDA took issue with a first post’s lack of acknowledgemen...
Guy Buys Lottery Ticket With $20 He Found On The Street, Wins $1 Million
( Lisa Brewster ) Here’s yet another story that’ll make you want to go out and buy a lottery ticket, even though let’s face it, this kind...
Uber Hires Security Researchers Who Hacked A Jeep To Protect Its Self-Driving Cars From Cyber Attacks
As technology advances and our cars become more and more autonomous, they are also opened up more and more to a new danger that didn’t used ...
Man Comes Home To Find Out Roommate Has Listed His Room On Airbnb
If you only live in your condo part-time, you can imagine that the roommate who is there the rest of the time might get up to some hijinks w...
T-Mobile CEO Has No Idea What People Are Doing With 2 TB Of Mobile Data, Vows To Stop Them
( Patrick ) Heads up, mobile data hogs: T-Mobile is on to your tethering shenanigans and your testing the limits of what “unlimited data”...
Nestle Announces Another Change To Supply Chain: All KitKat Chocolate Will Be Sustainably Sourced
( slgckgc ) After saying that “forced labor has no place in [their] supply chain” for Fancy Feast cat food , Swiss conglomerate Nestle SA...
Ashley Madison Says People, Even Some Real Women, Are Still Signing Up For Cheating Site
We can understand why people continued to shop at retailers that have been hit by data breaches. You still need to buy groceries, clothing, ...
Fiat Chrysler Wants To Hug GM So Tight They Merge
( БРАТСТВО ) When you’re a multibillion-dollar company that’s been under heavy scrutiny from federal regulators and you’ve been turned d...
Hunger Games, Transformers Movies Will Disappear From Netflix After Company Decides Not To Renew Epix Deal
You have until the end of September to see Katniss on Netflix. While there’s always plenty of streaming content to watch on the Internet ...
Google Adds Paid Home Service Provider Suggestions To Search Results For “Clogged Toilet,” “Plumber”
Google provided this example of what its new services ad function will look like. Less than a year after Amazon took on the likes of Angi...
Newark Airport Terminal Locked Down Sunday Night After Security Breach
( @marc_weiner ) People traveling through Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday were in for a bit of a wait, as authorities lock...
Walmart Cutting Workers’ Hours As It Increases Wages
( frankieleon ) In recent months, Walmart increased pay for entry-level employees so that all workers were making at least $9/hour . At t...
Nestle Says There’s No Place For Forced Labor In Cat Food Supply Chain
( eren {sea+prairie} ) After American consumers learned about horrible working conditions and trafficked workers on some fishing vessels ...
eBay No Longer Allows 2 Non-PayPal Payment Processors After Divorce From eBay
( Liz Wise ) eBay and PayPal have now completed their divorce , and one of the terms that they agreed to is that eBay still has to proces...
Burger King Joins Nabisco Brand Party, Tries Chips Ahoy Milkshake
Fast-food and coffee chains want to serve up drinks and desserts that are flavored like chocolate chip cookies, but these aren’t just any ol...
Amazon Lets Third-Party Merchants Limit Where They’ll Ship Prime Items For Free
( Akira Ohgaki ) Amazon’s Prime program includes third-party merchants, whose shops let the online Everything Store expand its inventory ...
American Airlines Will Honor Super Low “Mistake Fares” That Discounted Flights Up To 90%
( benh57 ) Unlike its fellow major carrier United Airlines , American Airlines says it will honor super cheap fares some lucky customers ...
Court Rules NSA Phone Data Collection That Is Now Changing Anyway Is Still Legal
( J ) After several years of back-and-forth rulings, an appeals court in Washington, D.C. has ruled today that the NSA’s controversial b...
Wayback Burgers, Denny’s Vie For The Affection Of Burger King After McDonald’s Turned A Cold Shoulder
( Mike Mozart ) After an offer to “settle the beef” in the name of raising awareness for Peace Day was unceremoniously shot down by McDon...
Time Warner CEO Isn’t Worried About Cable TV’s Fate: “Netflix Is Good, But Not That Good”
( dbrooks125 ) While cable companies’ investors might be shaking in their boots whenever the word “Netflix” pops up , the streaming video...
Fake Boss Wire Transfer Scammers Have Now Stolen $1.2 Billion From Companies
All year, we’ve been sharing information about a scam hitting companies all over the world , where very clever and resourceful scammers impe...