Facing a possible new tax on imported goods, some of the biggest name in auto manufacturing and retail are calling on lawmakers to rethink t...
Small Cable Companies, Indie Networks Ask FCC To Force Channel Unbundling
As cable packages have ballooned in both volume and price over the years, a growing segment of consumers has demanded options for unbundled,...
Drug Dealer Hiking The Price Of Pot? Don’t Call The Police
“Is your drug dealer ripping you off?” That’s a question police in Australia jokingly posed this week, after a woman called authorities to c...
H&M Slows Down Store Openings, Shifting Focus To Online
For years, so-called fast fashion purveyor H&M (which stands for Hennes & Mauritz) has quickly opened store after store around the w...
Man Accused In French Art Heist Claims He Threw Away $100M Worth Of Stolen Art
When you’re about to get caught with something you shouldn’t have, trying to get rid of that evidence is only natural. But while flushing th...
Diabetes Patients Sue Drugmakers Over Escalating Insulin Prices
Insulin is an essential hormone, and millions of Americans get the insulin that they need to stay alive and healthy from a vial . With insul...
DeVry Will Pay $2.75M To Settle State’s Allegations Of Misleading Advertising
One month after DeVry Education Group agreed to pay $100 million to settle federal regulatory charge s that it used deceptive ads to recruit...
Twitter (Again) Promises New Approach To Reduce Harassment And Abuse
Twitter is something of a double edged sword, for its millions of users. On one hand, conversations are fast-flowing, free, and open, and a ...
Netflix Engineers Dream Up ‘MindFlix’ Device That Would Let You Browse Movies With Your “Brain”
Because you will probably wear out your thumb endlessly scrolling and scanning through Netflix offerings to find something to watch, enginee...
Walmart Ditching $50/Year ShippingPass For Free Two-Day Shipping
Less than a year after its national launch, Walmart is pulling the plug on its $50/year ShippingPass subscription service that was intended...
FTC Opens Antitrust Investigation Of Mylan Over EpiPen’s Market Dominance
The EpiPen was a perfect symbol of the current state of pharmaceutical companies and health care expenses: It was a life-saving drug that ha...
Chance Of Cardiac Event Jumps By 23% Two Days After Major Snowstorm
Whether it’s overexertion from shoveling snow, the stress of being stuck inside, or any number of other possible causes, a new study shows t...
Report: Treasury Secretary Nominee Mnuchin Misled Senate About Robo-Signed Foreclosures
Steve Mnuchin, President Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, recently told members of the Senate Finance Committee that his former bank ...
IKEA Launching Customizable “Open Source” Furniture To Give Customers More Choices
Maybe you can’t afford that bespoke chaise with the walnut legs and expensive upholstery, but that doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself ...
New Hacker Trick: Locking All Hotel Guests Out Of Rooms, Demanding Ransom
Ransomware is a type of malware that infects computers and smartphones, encrypting the data on them and locking up the device, making it un...
Feds Sue Debt Relief Law Firm For Charging Customers Illegal Fees
Nearly four years ago, federal regulators shut down a debt relief company — Morgan Drexen — accused of deceiving customers with promises of ...
Driver Says Police Radar Confused His Car With A Really Fast Deer
My speedometer must be broken…. You must have me confused with another car… I think your radar gun needs calibrating… I think that super-fas...
Super Bowl Advertisers Spending Millions To Run Ads About Their Ads
Advertisers love the Super Bowl, since it’s one of the few times that huge numbers of people sit and watch the same thing in real time, whil...
Trump Executive Order Requires Cutting 2 Old Rules For Every 1 New Rule, But Is It That Easy?
This morning, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that is being described as “two out, one in,” meaning that for each new feder...
Apple Disables Tool That Identified If Phones Were Stolen
Several years ago, Apple introduced Activation Lock , a program that allows consumers to render their devices useless once stolen, along wit...
RIP: Arcade Pioneer & “Father Of Pac-Man” Masaya Nakamura
The man responsible for millions of people spending millions of hours glued to video games has gone to that glowing maze in the sky: Masaya ...
Walgreens Says That All Prescriptions Count For For Balance Reward Program, But Not Quite
When the word “all” appears in an ad, are you supposed to take it literally? That’s a good question, and it’s an important question when it ...
Industry, ISPs End Controversial “Six Strikes” Copyright Alert System
Since the Napster era began in 1999, content creators and distributors have really, really hated it when you share their stuff online withou...
Maintenance Workers Find 31 Pounds Of Cocaine Hidden In Nose Of American Airlines Plane
Though it’s not uncommon to hear that someone shoved an ungodly amount of cocaine nose-ward, it’s an entirely different story when it’s 31 p...
When This Company Ran Out Of Shovel-Sized Boxes, It “Got Creative”
As someone wise once said, if you don’t have a box that will fit what you want to ship, just figure something out. One of our very own Consu...
Macy’s Sell Frango Chocolate Brand To Garrett Popcorn
More than a decade after Macy’s inherited much-adored chocolate brand Frango from Marshall Field & Co., the struggling department store ...
Marriott May Offer Communal Rooms With Shared Living, Kitchen Spaces
When you travel with a group, it can be a pain to book adjoining rooms, and even then you all have to cram into one person’s room or lay cla...
Walgreens Slashes $2B From Value From Rite Aid Merger; Up To 1,200 Stores To Be Sold Off
Last Friday, Jan. 27, was the deadline for the deal to close in the proposed acquisition of drugstore chain Rite Aid by competitor Walgreens...
600,000 Audi Vehicles Recalled Over Fire Hazard, Airbag Issues
Audi’s parent company Volkswagen is kicking off the week in style, announcing two separate recalls — one involving a potential fire risk, th...
Starbucks CEO Says Company Will Hire 10,000 Refugees At Stores Around World
Amid efforts by the Trump administration to curb immigration, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced over the weekend that his company “will...
Delta Systems Outage Leads To Hundreds Of Canceled Flights
It’s starting to sound like all too familiar a refrain. Due to an IT error, a major airline has to temporarily issue a full ground stop on a...
Here’s How You Might Get Something Back From Gift Cards For The Limited
When a retailer files for bankruptcy protection, that typically means that it will stop accepting gift cards, which is very bad news if you ...
Kmart Lays Off More Employees, Turns Sales Floor Into Big Pile Of Boxes
The apparent inescapable death spiral of Sears continued last week when the retailer laid off an unspecified number of full-time employees ...