Archive for December, 2010
Lending Club Review 2011: A Review of LendingClub.com’s Peer to Peer Lending Service
Two and a half years after the onset of the financial crisis, banks are still reducing the amount of loans that they make and borrowers are turning to companies in the growing peer-to-peer lending industry, including Prosper.com and Lending Club to get loans. Investors are also taking advantage of loan demand on these two services [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Voice Remains Free In 2011
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Voice announced on Tuesday that they will continue to offer free telephone calls made in Gmail throughout all of next year as well. These free calls include telephone calls made within the United States and Canada. Google made this announcement during the holiday season to stay “in the spirit of holiday giving [...]
Unnatural rise in the price of gold creates anxiety about the economy
This is a guest post by Neil R. Williams. Neil is a financial consultant who, along with running his own consultancy firm, helps people how to get out of debt, setttle their debt, helps them file bankruptcy & improve their credit score. He also writes financial articles and gets them published on many sites. One [...]
The Basics of Peer to Peer Lending
Although the recession has been officially over for more than a year, lenders are still keeping their hands tight. Borrowers are finding it hard to get unsecured loans and the terms have gotten much more favorable. Whether you’re the owner of a small business or a consumer looking to take a loan, you might find [...]
No Halt to Set-Top Box Shipments Says Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI)
TV-based set-top box shipments have not been temporarily suspended at Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) request, according to Logitech, (NASDAQ: LOGI) contradicting a report in a trade publication serving the Asian electronics industry. Logitech’s denial was issued on Monday after the trade publication, DigiTimes, reported on December 24 that Gigabyte Technology was instructed by Logitech to suspend [...]
Citibank (NYSE: C) See Big Drop In Credit Card Delinquencies
November was a good month for Citibank (NYSE: C) in terms of collectable credit card debt. This week Citibank reports that uncollectable credit card debt by their card holders dropped significantly during the month of November. Citibank credit card late payments also fell. Consumers seem to be keeping up better on payments, which may be [...]
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes Will Have Competition with Sony’s New Music Streaming Service
On Wednesday, Sony launched their new streaming music subscription service that hopes to be able to give Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes some serious competition. Sony’s new digital music service is a different approach than Apple’s iTunes, but is still expected to give the iTunes store a run for their money. Sony’s new service is called [...]
Can Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Sell 8 Million Kindles in 2010?
E-readers are having a fantastic year in terms of sales. It was on many people’s holiday wishlists and many purchased them for themselves and loved ones in 2010. Giving the gift of books has never been easier with purchasing the Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle, which now lets you also gift Kindle versions of books for those [...]
How to Get a Magic Jack Phone Number
If you have regular phone number from a monopoly telephone company, you’re probably paying too much for your phone service. If you have a Magic Jack Phone Number, you can get unlimited local and long distance service for $39.95 for the first year and $19.95 for each year after that. As a service, Magic Jack [...]
U.S. Home Prices Drop Further Than Forecast
The U.S. housing market is still the weak link in an accelerating recovery after home prices dropped further than the October forecast. In the biggest year-over-year decline since December 2009, the S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values fell 0.8 percent, exceeding the 0.2 percent drop predicted in a survey by a median forecast of economists. With [...]
HP (NYSE: HPQ),Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) Take on the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)iPad at the Consumer Electronics Show
This year at the Consumer Electronics Show, HP (NYSE: HPQ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST), and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will all be competing against one another with their newest tablets. HP and Microsoft are PC partners, but in the war of tablets, they are now competitors with tablets of their own to battle against Apple’s iPad, and each [...]
Kinect Makes Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) Xbox 360 Controller Free
The Kinect, for Xbox 360, is an outstanding success for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST). Xbox 360 is a home entertainment and video system. It provides an enormous range of video games as well as a huge on demand library of music and movies. The movies are standard and high definition versions. The box also shows TV [...]
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) Ends 2010 on a High Note
During 2010, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) made news in a number of ways. Information released about cloud technology, gaming and phones were top news stories. Chief Executive officer, Steve Balmer, at the Microsoft Annual Shareholder meeting, spoke about the company’s success throughout 2010. He highlighted the hopes the company had for successful sales of Windows Phone 7 [...]
Will Walmart (NYSE: WMT)Bring the EMV to the United States?
According to EMVCo, there were over 944 million EMV cards that were in circulation worldwide last year and almost none of these were released in the United States. Now that the rest of the world seems to be upgrading to a higher security standard, the United States now has a very important decision to make [...]
How to Outsource Your Lending Club Investment criteria
Peer-to-peer lending has become a popular trend amongst personal finance bloggers. Many of them have posted their own investment criteria and stated what types of loans they invest in. Own the Dollar looks for borrowers with “C” credit ratings or lower, longevity in the borrower’s job and borrowers that request smaller loan amounts. He also [...]
Storm Leaves Thousands Struggling To Get Home
The massive blizzard that left the Northeast buried under over 2 feet of snow has stranded thousands of travellers who are now trying to get home after the holiday weekend. Inbound flights began arriving at two of New York’s major airports – LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International – on Monday night. On Tuesday morning [...]
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Expects to Reach 1 Million Apple TV Sales Per Quarter
Even with the new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) TV “hobby” that is starting to take off, the sales of the $99 set top box are not quite enough to have much of an effect on Apple’s bottom line. Apple announced earlier this week that they were expecting to reach their one millionth sale of the Apple TV [...]
Magic Jack Login: How to Get Started with Magic Jack
Magic Jack provides dirt-cheap long distance using your broadband internet connection. The service has been praised for offering an alternative to an expensive long distance service from a monopoly phone company, with pricing starting at $39.95 for the first year. If you’re like to get started with the service and do a Magic Jack Login, [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chrome OS Will Soon be Available on Netbooks
Google is known for being ambitious, and this leading search engine and online advertising giant is now venturing over to the hardware side in the electronics field too. Google is reportedly going to be launching their first Chrome OS netbooks within the next few weeks. The Nexus One, Google’s smartphone was recently launched, but it [...]
How to Become a Peer to Peer Lender
The banking industry has survived during the last two centuries by borrowing money from savers at low interest rates and lending the money back out at higher interest on credit cards and home loans. f you’re loaning money to the bank, and the bank is loaning money to other people, why can’t you simply cut [...]
Apple (NASDAQ) iPad Publication ‘Daily’ To Launch in January
The tablet-only News Corporation’s publication for the Apple iPad that is known as the Daily, is expected to launch in one month, on January 17, 2011. Last week, Peter Kafka of MediaMemo reported that he has been told by multiple sources that the new publication for the iPad, the Daily, will formally launch in January [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Enters into the eBook Market with eBookstore
On Monday, Google announced that they were entering into the eBook market. Although it is not yet available from the App Store, Google’s eBooks for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch will allow customers to sync and read more than 3 million eBooks while on the go. As stated in Apple Insider, “We designed Google [...]
Magic Jack Review: Our Review of Magic Jack’s VOIP Long Distance Service
Magic Jack Scam: Is Magic Jack a Great Affordable Phone Service or Just Another Scam? Magic Jack is a company that provides dirt-cheap long-distance service via Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology. They have one of the most incredibly cheesy advertising campaigns in recent history, but they also offer the most affordable unlimited long distance [...]
Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) Is Helping CA Home Owners Through Loan Modifications
This Week Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) agreed to pay out over $2 billion to help California homeowners who have home loans that are currently held by their bank. 15,000 home owners whose mortgages originated with either World Savings or Wachovia will be offered loan modifications sometime over the next three years to help them make [...]
How Peer to Peer Lending Websites Work
Prosper.com, Lending Club and a few smaller companies are part of a growing industry known as peer to peer lending. These companies have setup exchanges in which users on their websites can make loans to one another, removing banks from the lending process. Typically peer to peer lending companies such as Lending Club, Prosper and [...]
Ford (NYSE: F) Manufacturing Plant Upgrade Reflects Industry Trends
Ford Motor Company’s Michigan Assembly Plant has undergone a $550 million transformation upgrade that will make it the world’s first factory to build fuel efficient gas powered cars, and three different types of hybrid electrified vehicles including the battery electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid. The Michigan Assembly Plant will be the home for the new [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Announces Release of Nexus S Smartphone
On Monday, Google revealed the Nexus S smartphone from Samsung. This is their second Android device that they hope will be able to compete well with Apple’s iPhone. The Nexus S smartphone has a new unique curved screen as well as integrated near field communications technology. The Nexus S smartphone has a 4-inch AMOLED screen [...]
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