While Zecco is rolling out the new Zecco Trading Center, they’ve extended their popular Refer-a-Friend offer. If you share, you get rewarded: $100 for you and $100 for your friends when they open a new Zecco Trading account and fund with $10,000. There’s no limit to the number of friends you can refer. The offer [...]
On Friday, 10/21/2011, Bay Area-based P2P company Prosper will be running a one-day promotion offering to make borrowers’ 2nd payment, up to $250.* If you apply for a new loan before midnight on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, Prosper will make your second payment for you. To be eligible for the offer, you cannot have posted [...]
Have you gotten thrown around in the market–again? Many of us can say “yes” to that, especially recently. If you finally have the resolve to quit “playing the markets” and get serious with your money, you should think about this style of investing–used by major endowments and the super-wealthy. [Quick Primer on Random Walk theory: [...]
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 [...]
Ever feel like you aren’t really making a difference? Well, at the SF Food Bank, you can. Just in the past month, support like you and I can give has helped them source and distribute a huge bounty of fresh fruits and veggies, like 27,900 mangoes and 240,000 potatoes. How Can You Help? 1) Use [...]
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 [...]
A few weeks ago, my family and I took pictures at the majestic and inspiring San Francisco memorial, the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial in Yerba Buena Gardens. The memorial sits behind a 50 foot waterfall that cascades over beautiful gray Sierra granite. Dr. King’s words are etched in twelve glass panels, back-lit with photos [...]
In the curiously freakin free corner today: a free miniature AAA tow truck with 1GB flash drive. (If you collected Matchbox cars like I did when you were a kid, you’ll understand.) All you have to do is get a free AAA insurance quote. You will have to get on the phone with an agent [...]
Speaking of Art There is a way you can get in to some of the best museums, at a great discount and even free much of the time. If you are a registered art student, a museum employee, or a retired museum employee (like me), you can apply to be come a member at American [...]
