Information from social media, credit card histories and Web habits helps marketers create advertisements that are increasingly personalized and nuanced.
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Struggling student loan debtors are being tricked into paying up to $1,600 in fees to private firms offering "debt relief" that they could get for free, according to a report issued Wednesday by the National Consumer Law Center.Student loan debt relief...
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Ten years ago I was a successful middle-aged professional with substantial savings and investments, an enviable real estate portfolio, and happily on track to my first million. Today, I am a 51-year-old woman with little set aside for retirement, living...
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No one has ever died because Seamless crashed just as they were about to place an order. Most people would either relaunch the app, use another delivery service, or — horror of horrors! — order directly through the restaurant. The only real loser...
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How does an idea on an overseas trip turn into a business that was sold to Home Depot?
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And now for something completely different. Yes, I am about to praise an article published by The Daily Beast. Yes, I know this is a first-person article, written in a magazine-journalism style. Yes, I know that it is a work of advocacy journalism, one...
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We’ve never suffered from a real debt deflation and we don’t know what it’s like. I think we’re going to find out, but it’s not going to be pretty.
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A state appeals court, calling Sears Roebuck & Co.’s arguments lengthy, unmeritorious and absurd, says the state doesn’t have to reimburse the retailer for sales taxes paid on behalf of credit card customers who didn’t pay their bills. Beginning...
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While there are plenty of honest remodeling contractors out there, the field has its share of bad apples. We asked our Facebook fans to tell us the craziest thing their contractors told them. "Well, all windows leak a little," a...
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The arrival of filtering required spammers to switch strategy. The carpetbaggers of spam’s youth left the scene, ushering in criminal sophisticates who set to work spoofing the filters. The game had changed. As Finn Brunton recounts in his brilliant...
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Filed under: Investing If you're an investor in Bank of America , the Federal Reserve's most recent round of stress tests should serve as a partial affirmation of your patience in the company. Released yesterday, the nation's second largest bank by assets...
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Kids and credit cards. Does that seem like a dangerous mix to you, or simply a normal part of the modern world? Parents have very different views on the subject. An exclusive survey of 500 parents with children under the age of 12, conducted for CardRatings.com...
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Natalie MusumeciThe Brooklyn Paper78th Precinct Park Slope Ride-by A quick-handed perp riding a bicycle snatched the iPhone out of a woman’s hand on Fifth Avenue on June 13. The 27-year-old victim told police...
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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Danielle FurfaroThe Brooklyn Paper94th Precinct Greenpoint–Northside Party crasher Two brawling men injured a woman in a fight at a Wythe Avenue nightclub on June 15. The victim told police she was partying at...
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If you’re a recent college graduate, you’re probably concerned about all things financial – from finding a full-time job to renting a home to saving for retirement to dealing with student loan debt. And in the midst of all that, you’ll have to...
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I recently read an article about curbing credit card debt ("Americans to rack up $47B in debt," June 11). One answer is to...
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If you've ever suffered from buyer's remorse after purchasing a ridiculously expensive, yet oh-so-adorable pair of shoes or another LBD, let us just say—we completely understand. But, today is National Splurge Day, and that means everything you...
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Filed under: Student Loans, Credit, Personal Finance, Debt, Interest RatesMichael Nagle, Bloomberg News via Getty Images Credit cards, with their high interest rates and exorbitant fees, have often trapped college students and other young adults in debt...
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Warehouse stores sell more than just huge sacks of flour, vats of ketchup, and enough toilet paper to clean an army. You can also use a membership at places like Costco or BJ’s to buy everything from auto insurance to credit cards to home mortgages....
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At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt. Assets on the forms are reported in a range making it...
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TigerDirect offers the WD Elements SE 500GB Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive in Black, model no. WDBPCK5000ABK-NESN, with Total Defense Premium Internet Security 5-User for Windows for $84.99. This $60 mail-in rebate cuts it to $24.99. With around...
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CNET | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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“I think the society that we live in today, it’s sad that if we go to the movies, or to the airport, or even to the mall that we have to worry about our safety,” McCord said. “So I would rather someone track my telephone messages and feel safe...
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This week’s travel video is on travel related credit cards. It’s a subject I’ve brought up a lot on this blog but since I haven’t in awhile, I thought reposting this video from Youtube would be helpful for many of you. Here is a basic primer...
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Warner Bros. ultimately decided it didn’t have much faith in Dumb and Dumber To, but star Jeff Daniels still does. Also after the jump: Jurassic Park 4 may be eyeing a 2015 release Kevin Smith reveals his Clerks III backup plan Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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The NSA scandal is the tip of the iceberg.
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Washington's urge to take control of the global communications environment, lock, stock, and chat room, to gather its "data" -- billions and billions of pieces of it -- and so turn the world into a secret set of connections, represents a remarkable development....
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“We are trying to have workers become as trendy as local and organic has become in the industry,” Saru Jayaraman, co-director and co-founder of ROC, told us. “It’s going to take the three stakeholders - workers, good employers, and consumers...
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Stan Cox, author of a new book on rationing, chats about ways to divvy up CO2 emission rights and other resources more fairly....
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It seems you cannot go a day without hearing about someone or some group hacking a website or stealing credit card and other sensitive data from e-commerce sites. So how do you protect your e-commerce site from being hacked and sensitive customer data...
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PC World | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Filed under: Investing Investors anticipating a bombshell stemming from this evening's Federal Reserve annual big bank stress results may be disappointed and have to look toward next week. Any surprises?As expected, after continually purging its books...
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These five elements of big data analytics will help you make the smartest decisions for your business.In today's hypercompetitive, real-time marketplace, where customers demand personalized solutions to their specific wants and needs, CMOs need a bird's-eye...
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One lender uses sophisticated algorithms--and any online dirt it can find about your company--to determine credit risk.The amount of stored digital information that companies, researchers, and others can mine is growing exponentially and is nearly impossible...
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Pindrop Security, a startup that aims to prevent and protect against phone-based fraud, has raised $11 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Citi Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Redpoint and Felicis Ventures participating. The startup...
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Get caught nicking a $5 T-shirt from Big-W and the police will take you down the station. Get caught stealing a $500 washing machine via a credit card fraud perpetrated on an online merchant and the police, well, they have a lot of other things to do....
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Adam Tanner, ForbesWhy do merchants sometimes ask us for our ZIP code when we buy something? I recently visited the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, an interesting addition to Sin City’s attractions. I paid my admission with a credit...
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Wednesday, June 12 7:51 a.m. – A motorist called in a traffic complaint about a white van passing standing traffic on the right hand site before making a left turn onto Main Street from Elm, cutting off the line of waiting vehicles. Police attempted...
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Filed under: Investing Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, bank holding company has earned a respected four-star ranking. With that in mind, let's take...
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Filed under: Investing MasterCard and Western Union Launch Dedicated International Payments Service for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Enhanced foreign-exchange capabilities offered via the MasterCard Business Network PURCHASE, N.Y. & ENGLEWOOD,...
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If you were to have any credit card stolen, AMEX would have to be THE best....
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FindTheBest launches sister site FindTheCompany to help consumers make more informed business decisions based off detailed, objective data. ...
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The St. Tammany Parish coroner's office made questionable purchases, had no control over the use of its gasoline credit cards and loosely managed employees' sick and vacation time in 2012, according to a yearly audit that noted numerous deficiencies...
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Eight months after its public debut, Menlo Park, CA-based Calysta Energy has announced its first partnership deal. Calysta, a synthetic biology company, will attempt to engineer a new microbe that can live off methane gas and produce raw materials for...
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BOSTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than $500 million...
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The suspect would take the patient's credit card overnight and use it to withdraw cash, police said.
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We’ve all experienced uncomfortable money moments. Sometimes you just can’t avoid it: group gifts, friends asking to borrow money, and of course, splitting a giant restaurant bill with twenty of your closest friends. These situations often seem impossible...
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Filed under: Investing Here's something bound to make our Founding Fathers roll over in their graves: Americans have more trust in banks than in Congress. That's according to a recent Gallup poll that showed 26% of poll respondents with a "great deal...
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Filed under: Investing Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed higher by 138 points, or 0.91%, and now sits at 15,318. The move higher came as the Federal Reserve began its two-day meeting in which the fate of its stimulus programs is up for debate....
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Deal: Up to 90% off of previous seasons' merchandise and samples. Jeans start at $65, leather starts at $95, and knits start at $30. No restocking, cash and credit cards accepted.
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Authorities today released surveillance video of a man suspected of using an Ohio woman's credit card information to make purchases at stores in southwest Volusia County in April. ...
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On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to indicate when and how quickly it will pull back from its easy money policies. Americans can expect mortgage rates to climb, selling homes to get tougher, and interest rates to increase on credit cards,...
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