( Ralph Krawczyk Jr ) Nearly five months after Fiat Chrysler issued a recall of 230,000 Dodge and Jeep SUVs for fuel pump issues that cou...
Who’s Making The Money When Your Smart TV Watches You Back?
( JKehoe_Photos ) We’ve heard plenty of times in the past few years that if you have a smart TV — one that’s internet-enabled, for all that...
Senators Chastise Govt. For Making Money Off Struggling Student Loan Borrowers, Not Offering Enough Relief
( Sapurah Lashari ) For several years now the government has offered federal student loan forgiveness programs aimed at helping borrowers ...
Passenger’s Lawsuit Blames American Airlines For Wife’s Death
( benh57 ) A Canadian man who flew with his wife on an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Mexico in March 2013 has filed a lawsuit aga...
Taco Bell Testing Cap’n Crunch-Coated, Cream-Filed Donut Calorie Bombs For Breakfast
If you’ve been considering starting your morning with the cream-filled Cinnabon Delights at Taco Bell but decided they weren’t sugary enoug...
4 Things We Still Don’t Know About Net Neutrality
( Julio Marquez ) The FCC voted yesterday to reclassify broadband and protect the open internet. In other words, at long last, we have a ne...
Man Finds His Missing Log Cabin 3,750 Feet From Where He Last Saw It
(Klamath County Sheriff’s Dept.) Though sometimes it feels like your keys, wallet or phone can just go walking away from where you left the...
Can New McDonald’s CEO Turn Tide Against Antibiotic Abuse In Farm Animals?
( БРАТСТВО ) Since the Food and Drug Administration won’t set down hard-and-fast rules on non-medical antibiotic use in farm animals, it’s ...
Don’t Lie About Paying For Online Reviews. It’s Against The Law
( Sybren Stüvel ) In this era of social media and crowdsourced reviews, businesses with happy customers do what they can to publicize posit...
What Happened After TV Show ‘Pimp My Ride’ Pimped People’s Rides?
While no one can take away the joy of watching someone’s jalopy get turned into a gleaming pile of doodads and gadgets in bright colors tha...
Police Say Trucker Used Bond, James Bond-Style Device To Avoid Paying $95 Toll
( afagen ) Perhaps you think you’re clever, sure, but just because you can pull a James Bond and movie move and rig your car in a way that ...
Lawsuit From Ericsson Wants To Ban Apple From Importing iPhones, iPads
( thronx ) Another day, another lawsuit against Apple: This time around, the company’s facing a lawsuit from Ericsson that seeks to ban imp...
My Credit Card Interest Rate Is Going Up. What Are My Options?
( Colin ) Earlier this week, American Express announced that it would be raising annual interest rates on more than 1 million accounts , le...
Amazon Imagines A Future Where Delivery Trucks Print 3D Products At The Curb
One of Amazon’s patent applications. There can be a lot of worry over getting a package from Amazon delivered successfully — but what if yo...
TiVo Picks At The Scraps Of Aereo’s Remains
( Reflection717 ) It’s been about eight months since a divided U.S. Supreme Court thrust a dagger through the gut of streaming video startu...
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...
We’re Not Eating Cereal, And It’s Hurting Kellogg The Most
( frankieleon ) It’s not surprising that sales of breakfast cereal are falling: Americans, as a whole, are starting to eat breakfast on the ...
From Applause To Lawsuits And Legislation: What Key Players Are Saying About Today’s Net Neutrality Vote
Over the summer, we rounded up what all the key players in broadband and online were saying about the potential for the FCC to write a clea...
JetBlue Realizes Pun Referencing Large Flying Machines Falling From The Sky Is Not The Best Idea
The tweet that has since been deleted. (@JetBlue) JetBlue is busy apologizing on Twitter for a now-deleted and ill-advised Tweet that made ...
Macy’s Decides To Grow By Targeting Bargain-Hunters
( Mike Mozart ) How does a department store company grow when department stores, as a category, are not doing so well? They have to go where...
Shuttered Restaurant Lashes Out At Former “Incompetent” Staff In Yelp Farewell
Just a bit of the harsh critique that ownership left for its former servers and kitchen staff. Yelp is usually a place for restaurant diner...