Daimler today bought an almost 10% stake in US electric car company Tesla Motors. The LA Times has more: In January, Daimler selected Tesla to provide batteries and chargers for the German company’s Smart EV electric car. The investment in Tesla “enables the partners to collaborate even more closely on the development of battery systems, […]
Starbucks recently launched “the biggest marketing effort it has undertaken,” according to the New York Times. The coffee company is displaying posters in major cities, then challenging people to be the first to find and tweet pictures of the the posters. The NYT has more: The idea for the Starbucks photo contest came from watching […]
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Athletes may boast eye-popping sports abilities, but when it comes to money, their inability to control their bad spending habits comes out. More than two-thirds (78%) of former NFL players are broke or financially stressed after retirement, and 60% of former NBA players go broke five years after retiring, A very large number (78%) of […]
Maureen Dowd wrote a plagiarized passage a recent New York Times column. The passage, according to Gawker, came from Josh Marshall’s TPM blog. This is the excerpt from Marshall’s post: More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during […]
Good Morning America today mentioned a site called Cell for Cash. The site allows you to either recycle your used cell phone for free or sell it for between $5-175 (that latter number is for an iPhone). Note that they will only offer cash for certain models. The website, CellforCash.com, explains more in its About […]
Are you shopping for a graduation gift, but can’t afford to lay out huge sums of money? The economy may actually be working in your favor. Retailers have continued to slash prices, making good buys of formerly formidable products. See if you can find the perfect gift for your grad among the 20 graduation gifts […]
Parks and Recreation‘s Aziz Ansari is calling for a boycott of IMAX, AMC, and Regal theaters. He claims the theaters are duping people by charging an extra $5 for IMAX shows that aren’t actually shown on IMAX-sized screens. Ansari explains the debacle in his blog: I went with a friend of mine to see Star […]
Recently, 4chan pwnd Time Magazine’s poll to identify the World’s Most Influential Person. The online community dominated that poll and made the founder of 4chan, moot A.K.A. Christopher Poole the winner. That’s not surprising. 4chan is known for pwning everything it can get its hands on. But this last week 4chan got a little of […]
This is a blog post by Drea Knufken. In celebration of this week’s bank stress tests, which promise that no bank will fail, we’ve decided to release a list of 25 banks that did kick the bucket. Here they are, in rough order of failure size: 25. New Frontier Bank Greeley, CO-based New Frontier’s failure […]
Hey all you college educated kids out there who took jobs painting road signs, make sure you smell right or else you might ruin someone’s car (and make their insurance company very, very mad). And if you didn’t go to college, well don’t worry, you can still spell ok. (Just make sure you take a […]
As in every other category of life, people will be spending less on Mother’s Day this year. Fortunately, that doesn’t limit the variety of gifts that will make your mom happy this year. Here are 50 Mother’s Day gifts that cost $50 or less: 1. Framed photos or kids’ art. Hobby retailers like Joanne’s offer […]
