Thanks to Matthew over at 8coupons.com, my holiday headache is a little less, well–headache-y. Wait! you say. It’s not even Halloween yet, for ghosts’ sake. Why bring this all up now? Because we all know a bad economy when we see one. Look for Christmas displays starting now, or even in some cases where I [...]
Now you can trade stocks while you are chatting and catching up with your Facebook friends. Wall Street by Zecco has just been introduced as a way to get real-time stock quotes (free) and direct access to stock trading right from Facebook. Bay Area-based Zecco has so far proved itself as being an online investing [...]
More of us are online entering personal and sensitive data than ever before, increasing the risk for malicious malware and infections. It used to be all you had to do was check to make sure a site was secure (“https” not “http”), but no more. Scammers know that we are often too quick on the [...]
These innovative, do-good and just plain cool online companies led the way in 2010 — and will keep moving forward into 2011 and beyond. Some are new and others are “seasoned” players, but all made news in 2010. 1 – Groupon Turning down a 6 bil buyout takes guts, and clearly Groupon has that, and [...]
According to the Tower Group, $5 billion of gift cards went unused in 2009. I spoke with Wildcard Network founder, Raj Basavaraju, about this and other problems with gift cards (see Gift Cards: Buyer (and Receiver) Beware). I know firsthand the mess that gift cards often create: our teenagers routinely lose their gift cards within [...]
For sure, there are going to be a lot of iPods, iPads, and the like under the tree this year. Every year, it seems we give even more money to Apple’s bulging backpockets (Apple reportedly has 40 billion in cash reserves – and no stock dividend program). But how about this year actually giving the [...]
In Are women really bad tippers? I promised to give you some quick tips on mobile tip calculators. If you have an iPhone, there are at least 15 tip calculators of one kind or another available from the App Store – and about half of them are free. There is no reason at all for [...]
UPSIDE of Money is now available on Amazon Kindle.
According to personal finance author and motivational speaker, Jean Chatzky, gratitude is good for your health – and your wallet. I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Jean recently at a Wells Fargo Advisors event (twitter tag: #WFCretire) in San Francisco targeted to women and retirement. A couple hundred women and guests were [...]
