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Can Amazon and Netflix Bounce Back in 2015?
Filed under: Company News, Netflix, Amazon.com, Investing netflix.com Two of the market's biggest dot-com rock stars have had a rough 2014. Amazon.com (AMZN) -- the world's leading online retailer --...
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Should You Tip Your Garbage Man? 9 Rules for Holiday Tipping
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T-Mobile Paying at Least $90 Million for Unwanted Services
Filed under: Company News, Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, Mobile Technology, Cell Phones Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images By MARCY GORDON WASHINGTON -- T-Mobile US (TMUS) will pay at...
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Holiday Shopping Season Sales Come Down to the Wire
Filed under: Retail, Holiday Shopping, GDP, Deals, Stores John Minchillo/AP By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO NEW YORK -- Despite an early start, sales data provided to The Associated Press show that stores may...
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Market Wrap: U.S. Stocks Inch Higher After Big 2-Day Rally
Filed under: Energy, NYSE, Market News, Oil & Gas Industry, NASDAQ Bloomberg via Getty Images By MATTHEW CRAFT NEW YORK -- Oil and gas companies led the stock market up Friday, helping the Standard...
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Staples: Customer Data Exposed in Security Breach
Filed under: Identity Theft, Company News, Retail, Credit Cards, Consumer Protection Robert F. Bukaty/AP By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL PORTLAND, Ore. -- Staples (SPLS) says nearly 1.2 million customer payment...
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The 4 Easiest Ways to Budget: Which Helps You Most?
Filed under: Budgeting Alamy Budgeting strikes fear (or annoyance, or disgust) into the hearts of many people, because we tend to see budgeting as something that is tedious, is complicated and keeps us...
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FICO vs. FAKO: What's Your Real Credit Score?
Filed under: Credit, Credit Score muharrem Aner By Mike Schreiber There are a lot of different credit scores out there, and this has naturally led some consumers to ask: Which scores should I pay...
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How to Maximize Your Social Security Benefits
Filed under: Retirement, Personal Finance, Social Security Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Deciding when to claim Social Security is one of the most important financial decisions any senior will...
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When Should You Choose Active Over Passive Mutual Funds?
Filed under: Mutual Funds, Investing Alamy By Kate Stalter These days, investors hear fewer financial advisers promise they have the stock-picking chops to "beat the market." With memories of 2008...
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Coffee Lovers Outsmart Keurig's K-Cup Technology
Filed under: Company News, Food & Beverage, This Built America www.keurighack.com By Krystal Steinmetz Imagine if a lid on a coffee pod was preventing you from getting your much-needed morning cup...
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How Investors Can Cash In on Cuba
Filed under: Investing Javier Galeano/AP After President Barack Obama last week proposed to relax trading restrictions with Cuba, the subject has been stirring plenty of debate on both sides of the...
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Cheap Gas Prices Can Only Help Retailers So Much
Filed under: Energy, Gas Prices, Oil & Gas Industry, Economy, This Built America Matt Rourke/AP Gas is cheap! And U.S. retailers are cheering. Over the past six months, global oil prices have...
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Is the Recession Over for the Poorest Americans?
Filed under: Unemployment Rate, Job Market, Economy Andrew Burton/Getty ImagesDinner at a New Jersey soup kitchen. Happy days are here again! (Or are they?) For the third month in a row, America's...
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Top Business Stories of the Year Affect Us All, Somehow
Filed under: Economy Robert F. Bukaty/AP By Tali Arbel NEW YORK -- This year showed how sheltered the U.S. economy is from geopolitical and health crises around the world. The global economy sputtered,...
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BMW to Replace Air Bags Across U.S.
Filed under: Consumer Protection Matthias Schrader/AP NEW YORK -- BMW (BAMXF) has agreed to demands from the government to replace driver's-side air bags across the entire U.S. The National Highway...
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Shippers Absolutely, Positively Trying to Get Those Gifts Out
Filed under: Holiday Shopping David Goldman/AP By Mae Anderson ATLANTA -- FedEx (FDX), UPS (UPS and online retailers are using the last few days before Christmas to try to avoid the problems that...
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Market Wrap: S&P 500 Sets a Record High
Filed under: Market News, Stocks, Stock Markets, World Markets LM Otero/AP By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks rose for a fourth straight session on Monday as large-cap technology shares gained...
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4 New Year's Resolutions for American Manufacturing
Filed under: This Built America Getty Images In 2014, some U.S. industries saw growth and resurgence, others languished. With that, here are a few resolutions for American manufacturing in 2015. 1....
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Is Big Data Already Tracking Your Kindergartner?
Filed under: Technology, Education Jupiterimages By Bob Sullivan You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who disagrees that America's schools are in need of serious reform. And it's an obvious leap to...
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