( Bob ) Toshiba will be leaving the U.S. market for televisions, but you’ll still be able to buy a Toshiba TV later this year. Confused? Lik...
Restaurant Bonus Gift Card Promotions Mean Discounted Meals
( The Joy Of The Mundane ) Sure, gift card bonus deals are meant to induce you to buy even more gift cards, maybe keeping the smaller one fo...
Study: “Anonymous” Credit Card Data Is Actually Completely Identifiable
( a lonewolf ) We all kind of know that credit card data isn’t terribly secure , and that the payment information is likely to get swiped e...
Appeals Court Sides With FTC In POM Wonderful False Advertising Case
( gabster_ro ) The Federal Trade Commission hasn’t let the bee out of its bonnet over health claims made by POM Wonderful that it says amou...
Lawsuit Alleges Costco Managers, Employees Taunted Greeter With Tourette’s
( Mike Mozart ) A new federal lawsuit filed today claims that Costco and the managers of a Long Island store violated the Americans with D...
Verizon Wireless Will Finally Allow Users To Opt Out Of Being Tracked By “Supercookies”
( Amanda Hoffman ) Verizon has been watching you. If you use their mobile service, Verizon has been tracking your every move on the interne...
Super Bowl Weekend Is The Big Show For Pizza Box Manufacturers
( Marc Wathieu ) Did you know that there’s a pizza season? Pizzerias say that their business picks up in October, and the bump lasts through...
Alibaba Vows To Step Up Efforts To Prevent Online Sales Of Counterfeit Goods
It’s been a whirlwind week for the relationship between e-commerce giant Alibaba and the Chinese government. After one agency released a re...
Comcast Is Also Changing Customers’ Names To “Whore” And “Dummy”
(courtesy Elliott.org ) This is not how Comcast wanted to end a week that saw it having to explain how a supposedly rogue employee could ch...
Are Cable Companies Lowering HBO Rates In Advance Of Standalone HBO Go?
( blue_j ) Though we still don’t know a specific launch date, name, or monthly cost of HBO’s upcoming standalone streaming service, it look...
Addicted To Tanning? Study Says It Might Be In Your Genes
( gweggyphoto ) While there are those of us who shun the sun and it’s potential to tan skin into a hue other than scariest white, some peop...
Jones New York Will Close Stores, End Wholesale Business
This week hasn’t exactly brought good news for women’s fashion. Kate Spade announced yesterday that it would shutter its Kate Spade Saturda...
Exec Formerly Known As “Comcast Frank” Has Some Tough-Love Advice For Company
( honeylamb ) Once upon a time, Frank Eliason was better known Comcast Frank , heading up the cable company’s Digital Care team during a ti...
Adobe Accuses Forever 21 Of Pirating Design Software
( list ) Wait a minute…Forever 21 is in legal trouble over an intellectual property issue that doesn’t involve accusations that it ripped o...
ESPN Selling U.S. Fans Live-Streaming Access To Cricket World Cup For $99.99
( j.e.mcgowan ) While cricket doesn’t enjoy the immense popularity it inspires in other countries, fans of the sport who’ve been going with...
Yelp Goes To Court To Protect Identity Of Anonymous Review-Writer
( Rich Rogala ) Once again, a business who is displeased with an anonymous review on Yelp is trying to sue that reviewer and attempting to ...
Delta Air Lines Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Pilot Gets Locked Out Of Cockpit
( don buciak ) In what can only be akin to walking out the front door and realizing you locked your keys and the baby inside, the pilot of ...
Intuit Caves To Pressure: Offers Free TurboTax Upgrades, Will Undo Changes To Software For Next Year
Intuit CEO Brad Smith is sorry. Ask, and ye shall receive. Or rather, create a fuss big enough to let a company know people aren’t okay wit...
Feds Take Action Against Pair Of Deceptive Auto Title Lenders
( Stephan De Witte ) When it comes to short-term, high-interest loans, payday lenders may get most of the headlines, but auto title loans c...
Police: Telemarketer’s Phone Call Saved Woman 900 Miles Away From Violent Attack
( Peeping Dragon Photography ) Usually a telemarketer’s call is greeted with annoyance, disdain or even outright anger. But in one recent c...
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are ten of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usability in a Consumerist p...