( Jim Perry ) Financially distressed consumers on the brink of foreclosure have enough to worry about without having to be on the lookout...
Internet Money Guys Start Asking The FCC Not To Implement Net Neutrality
( Tom Richardson ) Net neutrality has already made a lot of enemies, and the new rule hasn’t even been implemented yet. Along with big I...
Sales Of $100 Million Homes Are Way Up
( .sanden. ) The housing market simply can’t keep up with the demand from a very specific part of the market…people who seek houses worth...
Guy Pours Molten Aluminum Into Watermelon Because He Knew We Couldn’t Resist Watching The Video
( TheBackYardScientist ) There is no question we never fail to answer in this Internet age, and it’s, “What’s gonna happen next?” We have...
PRO Students Act Aims To Protect Students From For-Profit Colleges’ Bad Behavior
( Dustin Michelson ) It’s difficult to go a month or even just a few weeks without hearing of another for-profit college being under inv...
Sprint Customers Will Get Access To Free WiFi At 35 Airports In Deal With Boingo
(JeepersMedia ) When faced with wasting precious data allotments, many travelers submit to paying for WiFi on the go. But Sprint custome...
Sears To Sell $300 Million In Property To Joint Venture With Mall Owner Macerich
Pete Kraynak A few weeks ago, Sears Holdings announced that it would be starting a joint venture with mall operator Simon Properties . Th...
Legislation Would End Forced Arbitration In Student Enrollment Agreements
( sparkle-motion ) When Education Credit Management Corporation announced late last year that it would buy 56 of for-profit education cha...
Drinking Collagen-Infused Booze Probably Won’t Make You Look Any Younger
If life was fair, we could all be our ideal body shape/type/weight and look as young/old/smart as we wanted while eating/drinking/doing what...
House Panel Strikes Provision That Would Delay Added Military Lending Act Protections
( Hammerin Man ) Yesterday we reported that Congress would make a decision whether or not it would intervene to slow the Department of De...
Brazil Suspends Uber, Uber Keeps Driving
( Roger Schultz ) Car-hailing app Uber has racked up another municipality on its list of places where the service has been banned, yet dr...
Report: Apple Watch Customers May Face Longer Waits After Faulty Component Delays Shipments
Because it wouldn’t be an Apple product without some kind of hubbub over a wait or delay involved, a new report says some shipments of the A...
McDonald’s Testing Simplified Version Of Build-Your-Own Program, Adds Drive-Thru Option
( Mike Mozart ) A day after we learned that McDonald’s had eliminated nine items from its menu so far this year, the fast food giant ann...
Wendy’s Jumping On Organic Bandwagon With Addition Of Honest Tea At Restaurants Nationwide
( kc2gvx ) Though not many of its fast food rivals have taken the plunge into organic waters, Wendy’s is just going with the trend embrac...
United Airlines Foots The Bill To Fly Dog Missing For Four Years Back To Family
( Dave Transier ) It’s not every day you see a dog flying first class – for free – on an airplane. But that’s exactly what passengers on ...
Ad Watchdog: Scooter Commercials Show Too Much Unsupervised Fun
Zooming along the sidewalk at up to 13 miles per hour on an electric-powered scooter sounds like a lot of fun. However, one scooter company ...
Apple Now Requires ResearchKit Apps To Get Ethics Board Approval
(iDiapo) Since introducing ResearchKit, its open-source framework for scientists to develop iPhone apps for medical research, Apple has m...
New Law Would Ban Companies From Penalizing Customers Who Write Negative Reviews
Here’s an example of a non-disparagement clause in the real world. This one is from a wedding supply vendor’s contract . It forbids custome...
Report: Uber Testing Same-Day Delivery For Retailers
( dsuniaga ) Not content to ferry passengers, packages and food , Uber is reportedly casting its net in the pool of merchant delivery, by...
Executives & Loan Officers Must Pay $600K For Being Part Of Illegal Mortgage Kickback Scheme
( Steven Depolo ) Nearly five months after Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay more than $35 million – including $11.1 million ...
Microsoft Edge Revealed As Replacement For Internet Explorer Web Browser
The final nail in Internet Explorer’s coffin came today, as Microsoft revealed its erstwhile web browser’s replacement: What had been known...
How Scammers Trick You Into Giving Up That Security Code On The Back Of Your Credit Card
( frankieleon ) There are a lot of purchases you can make with the information on the front of a credit card. But ID thieves who have the...
RadioShack Employees Had No Idea Whether Their Stores Were Doomed
( Phillip Pessar ) Moderately perceptive RadioShack employees could look around their stores and follow the news in recent years and tell...
Congress Has One Month Left To Change Or Renew Controversial Bulk Phone Data Surveillance Program
( Brad Clinesmith ) It’s been two years since we found out that the NSA has been quietly scooping up basically everyone’s phone records, ...
T-Mobile CEO Sees Cable/Wireless Mergers As Inevitable
As we sip the last drops of champagne over the failure of the merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, an even bigger acquisition appears to...