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Best Buy To Use Super Bowl Ad To Try To Convince You They Know About Electronics
By Chris Morran on February 1, 2012 12:15 PM
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During last year's Super Bowl, Best Buy tried to use not-at-all-a-flash-in-the-pan teen star Justin Bieber and slurring punchline Ozzy Osbourne in a failed attempt to announce its Buy Back upsell program that we've barely heard about since. For this Sunday's big ad the retailer, inspired by the death of Steve Jobs and the fact that people seemed to like him, has turned to tech innovators to convince customers it's not just a showroom for Amazon and Newegg. More »
Bus Group Doesn't Mind If Priceline Kills Off William Shatner As Long As It's Not With One Of Their Vehicles
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 24, 2012 10:00 AM
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Priceline is reportedly offing their spokesman William Shatner in an ad, which is just fine with the American Bus Association — but they'd prefer it if his means of death is something other than a fiery bus explosion as seen in a new commercial. They're asking the travel booking site to pull the ad, which they feel is in poor taste. More »
Cruise Ship Disaster Rescue Efforts May End Soon
By Phil Villarreal on January 20, 2012 7:30 AM
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The death toll in last week's Italian Costa Concordia cruise ship crash had climbed to 11 as of Thursday night, and officials say they're considering when to call off rescue operations. There are 21 people still missing. More »
Every Protest Needs An Anthem And This Anti-SOPA Ditty's Got LOLcat Jokes
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 18, 2012 2:45 AM
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If only every political issue or very important cause could be explained with a song about LOLcats, maybe everyone would enjoy a higher level of understanding. Case in point: SOPA/PIPA is a big deal to those of us who enjoy the current form of the Internetz. No one wants those adorable cats to go anywhere, right? More »
Tests Show No Connection Between Enfamil Baby Formula & Child Deaths
By Chris Morran on January 3, 2012 11:31 AM
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Late last month, Walmart and a handful of other other retailers decided to pull certain lots of Enfamil powdered baby food formula from shelves following the death of an infant in Missouri who had recently consumed the product. But tests by authorities at the Enfamil plant now show no link between the formula and this child's death. More »
Bank Of America Decides To Let Foreclosed-Upon Family Stay In House Until Wife Dies
By Chris Morran on December 22, 2011 3:15 PM
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At the intersection where Foreclosure Ave. crosses Health Care Blvd. lives a California couple who had to choose between mortgage and the health insurance needed to cover the wife's late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Until recently, it looked like they would be forced to vacate the house they'd bought 15 years ago, but Bank of America has decided to delay the eviction until after the wife's death. More »
Walmart Pulls Baby Formula From Shelves As Precaution Following Death Of Newborn
By Chris Morran on December 22, 2011 12:02 PM
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Out of precaution, Walmart has pulled a specific lot of Enfamil powdered baby formula from the shelves of all its stores following the death of a newborn child in Missouri earlier this week. More »
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AT&T Cries "Uncle," Pulls Plug On Plan To Buy T-Mobile
By Chris Morran on December 19, 2011 4:48 PM
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Faced with regulatory hurdles too tall for it to leap, AT&T has announced that it has pulled the plug on its proposed plan to purchase T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. More »
More Signs That AT&T Could Pull Out Of Deal To Purchase T-Mobile
By Chris Morran on December 19, 2011 11:38 AM
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While AT&T has publicly said it is considering ways to restructure its plan to purchase T-Mobile USA for $39 billion will end the Justice Dept.'s suit to block the merger — and the FCC's plan to put up regulatory speed bumps — a news report claims that there are new signs that the Death Star may be looking to retreat. More »
Legislators Kill Bill To Allow Robocalling Of Cell Phones
By Chris Morran on December 14, 2011 5:00 PM
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Less than three months after introducing a bill that would legalize automated robocalls to cell phone numbers, the Nebraska Congressman behind the legislation has listened to reason and pulled the plug on it. More »
AT&T Mulling Over Revisions To T-Mobile Deal To Appease Regulators
By Chris Morran on December 12, 2011 4:15 PM
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We're guessing that when AT&T announced it was going to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion that it didn't expect the deal would receive such jeers from the regulators at the Justice Dept. or the FCC. But with the former ready to go to trial to block the merger and the latter saying it will hold its own hearing if the DOJ fails, AT&T now appears to be looking at the Darth in the mirror. More »
I Didn't Get Married And Now I'm Out $2,500 On Honeymoon Plane Tickets
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 9, 2011 5:00 PM
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Plane tickets are non-refundable, a lesson many of us have learned the hard way. But even though Ian expected he'd have to take a hit on a pair of honeymoon tickets he sadly wasn't going to use, he didn't think he'd end up with nothing. More »
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AT&T Pulls FCC Application For T-Mobile Merger
By Chris Morran on November 24, 2011 3:23 PM
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Two days after the FCC announced it intends to hold a rare administrative hearing on AT&T's proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA, the folks at the Death Star have decided to pull their merger application to the regulator, at least until the end of its legal battle with the Dept. of Justice. More »
Shadow Economies: Harvest Organs From The Poor For The Rich
By Ben Popken on November 4, 2011 4:00 PM
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Living in abject poverty, $10,000 is a beguiling promise. All you have to do is give up one kidney. It's ok, you have another one. But a Bloomberg Markets Magazine investigation shows how gangs around the world prey on the poor and use threats and violence to get them to give up their organs, which they can then resell for upwards of $150,000. This isn't just happening in some ice-filled bath in China: this week, a Brooklyn man plead guilty to selling black market kidneys to people in New Jersey. More »
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Phoenix-Based Flight Attendant Death In Mexico Investigated As Homicide
By Phil Villarreal on October 31, 2011 11:15 AM
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Authorities are investigating the possibility that a US Airways flight attendant who died during a layover in Mexico City was murdered. The 33-year-old employee, who was based out of Phoenix, was found dead in his hotel room, stripped naked and tied up. More »
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Animal Shelter Manager Reveals Horrors Of His Job
By Ben Popken on October 20, 2011 4:00 PM
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An anonymous posting by an animal shelter manager whose job, which often involves putting animals down, is shooting around Facebook. It offers a sobering look into what goes on behind the scenes at animal shelters. More »
Minnesota Company Maybe Never Sold Steve Jobs Those Turtlenecks
By Mary Beth Quirk on October 18, 2011 9:30 AM
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The case of Steve Jobs' iconic mock black turtlenecks keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. After a post on their web site mourning Jobs' demise while offering to give $20 of every $175 turtleneck of a certain style sold to fight cancer, it now seems the Apple icon might not even have worn garments from the company. More »
Poop, There It Is! Luvs' Scatological Showdown Voted Worst Ad In America For 2011
By Chris Morran on October 17, 2011 5:15 PM
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The ad, which features an animated baby talent show where the only talent being judged is just how much fecal matter each of the three grunting tots can dump into their diapers, earned slightly more than 32% of the vote, beating out the AT&T ad (23.98%) in which a man's wife decides to unload what appears to be decades of pent-up anger after he tells her he signed the family up for some sort of unlimited texting plan. More »
T-Mobile Can't Cut Prices Because That Would Prove They Are Competing With AT&T
By Chris Morran on October 7, 2011 11:15 AM
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Last spring when the first Senate hearings were held regarding AT&T's pending purchase of T-Mobile USA, the folks at the Death Star repeatedly stated that they weren't trying to eliminate competition because they don't view the much smaller T-Mobile as competition. Unfortunately for T-Mobile, having to keep up that charade while AT&T fights the Justice Dept.'s attempt to block the deal could result in the loss of millions of customers. More »
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Couple Sues Cox After Cable Guy Kills Their Son
By Ben Popken on October 5, 2011 1:00 PM
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An Arizona family is suing Cox cable company after one of the cable companies' outsourced technicians executed their son in a botched break-in. That ex-contractor is now sitting on death row. More »
