A machine includes a screen showing a bank teller’s head and ATMs are getting a new face literally, a human face. Some bank customers are already encountering what might be called ATM cyborgs. The teller, is able to perform tasks that traditionally have been handled only by bank employees in person, such as check cashing [...]
MINNEAPOLIS — Retailer Target is phasing out Amazon’s Kindle e-reader at its more than 1,700 stores and its website.
Two years ago, target started selling Amazon‘s line of Kindle e-readers. Head over to Target.com now, though, not a single Amazon Kindle for sale but you’ll discover a wide assortment of e-readers. Target’s nearly taken off [...]
Most people know that they get tax breaks on their kids and on the mortgage interest they pay on their homes, but experts say which could potentially save them big bucks , many taxpayers leave a slew of other deductions and credits on the table. when tax time rolls around here are some things besides [...]
Here’s a look back at the frantic holiday shopping season that’s just passed—and that, among other things, reached a high point for self-gifting, shoplifting, free shipping, and procrastination.
Online Shopping. Brick-and-mortar stores fared better than expected this holiday season. Based on strong sales over Black Friday weekend and beyond, the National Retail Federation upgraded its holiday [...]
New car prices and other tech products are getting cheaper and cheaper with each passing day and its happening on the surface. The starting MSRPs for several 2012 cars from automakers such as Toyota, Jeep, and Mercedes are indeed lower than previous models.
For automobiles, it’s pretty much standard policy that the new model will be [...]
Christmas trees at the Capitol, carols at the National Cathedral–and another partisan catfight over taxes.Last year, Democrats and Republicans rang in the season with a bitter fight over extending the Bush tax cuts.
This December, lawmakers are bickering over another expiring provision: the payroll tax cut. Over the short term, allowing this cut to expire would [...]
A lot of Americans are ticked off at their banks, and a new survey puts some numbers to that sentiment. Consulting firm cg42 says big bank customers will collectively withdraw $185 billion in deposited funds in 2012, and a total of $399 billion is “in jeopardy,” meaning that customers are considering making a switch to [...]
There’s been a lot of media coverage lately about Americans switching from big banks to community banks, credit unions and online banks. That may be a good move for some people, but we’ll come right out and say it: Some consumers need a big bank. Maybe you travel a lot for work and need to [...]
