This morning, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai made a claim that net neutrality, which hasn’t even been in place for two years, has driven investment i...
CEO Howard Schultz Says Starbucks Is Ready To Open A Cafe In Italy
It takes a whole lot of beans to try to compete with Italian espresso in Italy, but Starbucks’ outgoing CEO Howard Schultz says his chain i...
CloudPets “Smart” Toys Leak More Than 2M Voice Recordings, Other Personal Data
Samsung Vice Chair, Four Others Indicted On Bribery & Embezzlement Charges
A week after a South Korean court approved a warrant for the arrest of Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee in connection with a bribery case ,...
JCPenney To Bring Appliances To 100 More Stores, Add Brands
While JCPenney recently announced plans to close more than 130 stores and offer early retirement to employees to cut its staff, the departm...
Taco Truck Stuck In Traffic For Hours Does Everyone A Favor By Opening For Lunch
Being stuck in traffic for hours on end? Awful. Being stuck in traffic for hours on end with some tacos? Not so bad at all. While drivers o...
Walmart Adding Express Pharmacy & Money Services To Mobile App
In a bid to get you in and out of stores quickly and efficiently, Walmart is turning to its digital offerings. The big box retailer plans to...
SpaceX Planning To Send Tourists On A Trip Around The Moon In 2018
Who knew all you’d have to do to get a lift into space is ask Elon Musk for a ride? ride? The CEO of SpaceX (and Tesla) says two private cit...
Study Claims That There’s A Decent Chance You Look Like Your Name
Have you ever met someone and immediately thought “You look like a Heather,” and then it turns out they person is actually named Heather? W...
Maybe Emptier Stores Mean Higher Customer Satisfaction?
Most retailers are having trouble bringing in foot traffic, leading once-steady brands like JCPenney , Sears , and Macy’s to shutter large ...
Leaked Memo: Third-Party Screen Repairs Don’t Void iPhone Warranty
Like slices of buttered toast, cupcakes, and pans of lasagna, smartphones always seem to fall face-down when dropped. Third-party repair sho...
FCC Chair Faces Blowback Over Decision To Undo ISP Privacy Rule
Last week, FCC Chair Ajit Pai declared that he would halt the Commission’s new privacy rule before it kicks in on March 2 . That last-minute...
Lawsuit Claims Five Automakers Knew Of Dangerous Takata Airbags, Used Them Anyway
Takata recently agreed to pay $1 billion to close the books on a federal criminal investigation into its shrapnel-shooting airbags linked ...
Here’s A Snap-On Bluetooth Skimmer Spotted Out In The Wild
Have you ever wondered how a retailer can leave a Bluetooth skimmer on a payment card terminal in its stores for weeks at a time? It’s hard...
Owners Of Discontinued Keurig Rivo Having Trouble Buying Coffee Pods That Will Work
When Keurig quietly discontinued its Rivo Cappuccino & Latte System in Dec. 2016, the company said customers would still be able to purc...
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Has No Plans To Review AT&T/Time Warner Merger
In recent years, the FCC played a key part in blocking the mergers of AT&T and T-Mobile, and Comcast and Time Warner Cable, while also u...
Raiders Of The Lost Kmart Unearth Sports Memorabilia No One Wanted 5-10 Years Ago
The brave retail archaeologists we call the Raiders of the Lost Walmart recently made a side expedition to Kmart, where they dug up a cache ...
Groups Ask FDA To Ban Lead Compound From Hair Dye Products
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently recommended further limiting the amount of lead found in common cosmetics , that guidan...
Like That Game You’re Watching On Twitch? Amazon Will Now Sell It To You There
More than a year and a half after spending nearly $1 billion to acquire game-focused livestreaming service Twitch, Amazon’s finally doing s...
Family Christian Closing All 240 Stores
After 85 years in business, Family Christian is closing for good, shutting down all 240 of its retail stores. USA Today reports that the ...
NASA Testing New Super Quiet, Supersonic Passenger Jet Design
Eleven months after NASA said it was working on a quieter, “low boom” supersonic passenger jet that could travelers around the world in a m...
Wegmans Changes Price-Comparison Signs After Costco Complaint
Price-comparison ads at Wegmans will soon be getting a bit of a makeover following an ad watchdog’s suggestion that the grocer modify in-sto...
Walmart Launches Price War With Aldi, Demands Price Cuts From Suppliers
Grocery sales comprise over half of Walmart’s receipts, so it makes sense that the mega-retailer wants to keep its prices competitive. In at...
Ridiculous Fake News Site Falsely Claims Denzel Washington, Stephen Hawking Endorse Brain-Boosting Pills
Wendy’s Installing Self-Ordering Kiosks In 1,000 Restaurants
Don’t like having to talk to a real, live person when you want to order food? You won’t have to if you’re visiting one of 1,000 Wendy’s loca...
Trader Joe’s Applesauce Recalled Because Apples Don’t Contain Glass
There are number of things you can put in applesauce to give it a bit of a kick: cinnamon, brown sugar, but definitely not glass. Yet, Trade...
AT&T Tweaks Unlimited Data Plan To Better Compete With Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile
It’s been two weeks since Verizon’s surprise announcement that it was bringing back unlimited mobile data plans kicked off a huge flurry of...