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Discover Misleads Cardholders, Will Issue $200 Million Refund — Dollars and Sense
Do you have a Discover card? If so, you can expect to receive a refund.
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Samsung Did NOT Pay Apple $1 Billion In Nickels To Settle Lawsuit
September 14, 2012 America loves the thought of a South Korean smarty-pants but Samsung did NOT pay their billion dollar judgement to Apple in nickels. But how awesome would that be?
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Fantasy Football Costs American Companies A Whopping $6.5 Billion A Season
September 10, 2012 Ever wonder how much money is lost when employees tinker with their fantasy football lineups at work? According to a report from outplacement firm Challenger, Grey & Christmas, it comes out to $6.5 billion a season.
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The Rich Fail to Spread the Wealth By Donating Less to Charity Than the Middle Class Does — Dollars and Sense
In a world where the portrait of philanthropy is often painted using an upper class model to represent an offering of charity to the less fortunate, sometimes we forget that empathy has a way of digging a little deeper into the pockets of blue jeans than it does a three-piece suit.
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Beastie Boys Sue Monster Energy Drink for Copyright Infringement
That didn’t take long. Yesterday (Aug. 9), late Beastie Boys rapper Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch‘s last will and testiment was publicly revealed to contain a clause banning his music being used in any advertisements, and now E! reports that Mike D, Ad-Rock and the estate of the late Yauch sued Monster Energy Corp. on Tuesday for copyright infringement.
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The Best Time to Buy Plane Tickets Is Almost Upon Us — Dollars and Sense
With all the fees airlines have been packing on in the past couple years, it may seem that tickets are impossibly expensive.
But there are times when it’s cheaper to buy them — and those times are fast approaching.
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MIT Students Create Ingenious Way to Strike It Rich in the Lottery — Dollars and Sense
The odds of striking it rich in the lottery are remarkably small, but apparently it really helps if you’re a math genius.
Several years ago, a group of students from the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology cracked the lottery code that enabled them to win millions of dollars — and state officials did nothing to stop it.
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Black Keys Sue Home Depot and Pizza Hut For Unauthorized Song Use
It seems everybody wants a piece of the Black Keys‘ music these days. The rockers aren’t above licensing their songs for use in commercials, but they claim in a new lawsuit that two large companies – Pizza Hut and Home Depot – borrowed their music without compensating them.
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Rare Bruce Springsteen Poster From 1971 Sells For $650 on eBay
A poster of one of the oddities in the Bruce Springsteen‘s pre-fame career recently sold for $650 on eBay. The poster is for the “Ernie the Chickin’ Festival” at Newark State College in Union, N.J. on May 15, 1971. Music was performed by several local acts including the oddly named “Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom with Bruce Springsteen.”
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Have Gas Prices Caused You to Cut Back on Other Purchases? – Survey of the Day
While gas prices may be coming in a little bit after a four-month surge, they still stand at almost four dollars a gallon. According to a new survey from Harris Interactive of 2,451 adults, these unprecedentedly high prices are causing Americans to change their overall spending habits.
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Care for a Cup of Panda Poo Tea? That’ll Be $200, Please
Imagine seeing a guy in a panda suit promoting a new line of tea grown using the feces of the animal. Weird, right? Now imagine him charging $200 for every cup you drink.
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IRS Releases List of States in America With Most Millionaires
In case you ever wondered where all the rich people lived, for hunting purposes, here is a handy little list released by our friends at the Internal Revenue Service.