It’s not your imagination. Your electricity bill really has been getting higher and higher.
Web gaming phenom Zynga, which is preparing to go public Friday, does not have a complicated business. People love to hang out on Facebook and share stuff with their friends. People also love to play online games. So it’s no surprise that people love to hang out on Facebook playing Zynga games with their friends.
On Wednesday, Charleston’s Post & Courier.com revealed that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has actively used her influence to prevent the implementation of federal health care reform — and, arguably, spending federal funds to do so.
Without question, Groupon has been a tremendous business success story thus far, inspiring the legions on copycat daily deal sites, along with the previously unheard-of notion that coupons can, in fact, be cool. The latest major force to leap into the field dominated by Groupon and LivingSocial is PayPal, which is expected to start rolling [...]
As BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion prepares to report its latest financial results, the device once so ubiquitous in business circles has been eclipsed.
Free Shipping Day takes place this Friday, December 16. But before and after Free Shipping Day, guess what’s readily available to online shoppers? Yep, free shipping.
Don’t fret if you missed out on big online sales offered on Cyber Monday, or the site-wide discounts that followed. In the current e-retail scene, it’s all but guaranteed that when one set of deals expires, another slew of site-wide discounts will be released.
New research reveals how our moods, good and bad, can increase our willingness to spend more for certain products and services—and less for others.
Has Goldman Sachs lost its lustre? The Wall Street powerhouse is wrapping up its worst financial performance since 2008, with profits down more than 40% so far this year. As a result, end-of-year bonus payouts are sure to be lower than in the past. Tighter regulatory controls, meanwhile, could crimp Goldman’s ability to rack up the massive trading [...]
Nonprofit group The Pew Charitable Trusts found that the average length of checking account disclosures is a staggering 111 pages. To cut through the clutter, it proposed a simple, one-page form with basic account fees spelled out — no legal jargon, no tiny fonts. Today, Chase is adopting Pew’s proposal.
Here’s another argument for having everybody pick out presents via gift registry, or perhaps just cutting to the chase and buying gifts for yourself. According to a new survey, there’s a 20% chance you’ll get a crummy present during the holidays.
