Customers of Bank of America (NYSE: BOA) were out of luck for about four hours yesterday when a glitch in the company’s website cause the online banking service to shut down. Bank of America, based in Charlotte, NC, did not give specifics about the problem, only citing a ‘temporary system’ error. The glitch only affected [...]
August 28th, 2010 | tisha | View Comments | ContinuedOther Recent Articles
Lending Club Blog: Blogs that Cover Lending Club Online
Lending Club is an increasingly popular place for personal financiers that want to diversify to make an investment. The service allows people to loan money to borrows through their website and earn a rate of return on their money. A number of personal finance bloggers have even started sharing about their own Lending Club experiences [...]
August 26th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Audible Books: Get Started with Audiobooks via Audible.com
Audio books have provided entertainment to commuters, travelers and those at the gym for decades now, but the distribution of audiobooks has changed dramatically in the last five years thanks to digital music players and Audible.com, the premier source of audible books (audio books), on the web. Audible’s library is the largest audio book repository [...]
August 25th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Lending Club, Prosper and Other Companies: How Peer to Peer Lending Marketplaces Work
Lending Club, Prosper and a few smaller players are part of a fledgling industry known as peer to peer lending, in which companies setup marketplaces so that their users can make loans to one-another, side-stepping banks from the lending process. Typically peer to peer lending companies such as Lending Club, Prosper and others start out [...]
August 25th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Audible Managers: Way to Manage Your Audible.com Audio Books
If you are a subscriber of Audible.com or are interested in getting audio books online, you’re going to need one of the Audible download managers to download your audio books. There are currently a number of ways that users can download their purchased audio books for enjoyment, including clients for the Mac, PC and various [...]
August 25th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
GE Foundation Gives $2 Million Grant as Part of Developing Health Program (NYSE: GE)
GE Foundation announced that they are giving a $2 million grant to Louisiana Public Health Institute. This is a part of GE’s Developing Health program and will underwrite a program that is being led by School Health Connection located in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. This will provide students with an increased access to healthcare at school [...]
August 25th, 2010 | trisha | View Comments | Continued
Ford Accelerates Electric Vehicle Battery Testing (NYSE: F)
Ford Motor Company is using the Internet and wireless technology to speed up testing and refinement of advanced lithium-ion battery systems which will be powering their upcoming plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. Ford is making rapid progress due to their two monitoring methods which allow their engineers to collect real-time performance data from the batteries [...]
August 25th, 2010 | trisha | View Comments | Continued
AT&T Expands Free ‘myWireless Mobile’ Application (NYSE: T)
AT&T announced that they are expanding the availability of the AT&T myWireless Mobile application to more Android devices. The added devices include Samsung Captivate and HTC Aria. This allows their wireless subscribers the ability to manage their accounts directly from their phone for free. myWireless Mobile reaches millions of AT&T customers and the app extension [...]
August 25th, 2010 | trisha | View Comments | Continued
Garmin users: Get a Free Audiobook from Audible with the “Audible.com/Garmin” Deal.
Audible.com, a provider of downloadable audio books, has begun offering a campaign to Garmin users in which users of Garmin devices can receive a free audio book and up to thirty days of free service at Audible.com/Garmin. Users that take advantage of the offer will receive a 30 day free subscription to Audible‘s “Gold Package” [...]
August 24th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Lending Club Bonus: How to Get a Bonus on Future Lending Club Investments
Lending Club, a company which operates a peer to peer lending market place, is becoming an increasingly popular alternative investment option for investors that aren’t happy with the volatility of the stock market. From time to time, you can also get a Lending Club Bonus when you deposit additional funds into your account to make [...]
August 23rd, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Understand Tax Debt Help – Move Forward with Confidence
Rather than dealing directly with the Inland Revenue Service (IRS) when seeking debt reduction associated with your taxes, you should consider the services of a professional tax attorney instead. One of the main reasons for this is simply the legal complexities that are often involved with tax debt help when approaching the IRS to find [...]
August 23rd, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
How to use the “Audible.com/TV” Coupon for a Free Audio Book
Audible.com, a service which provides audio books that can be downloaded to iPods and other MP3 players, has recently began television campaign in which viewers of the commercial can receive a free audio book and thirty days of free service with the following url: audible.com/tv. Users that take advantage of the offer will receive a [...]
August 21st, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Lending Club Forum: Where to Discuss Peer to Peer Lending Online
If you are looking to get started in investing with Lending Club, it’s worth your time to visit one of the Lending Club Forums and read about the ins and out of investing in peer to peer loans, which is becoming an increasingly popular option among investors that are fed up with the roller coaster [...]
August 21st, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Lending Club and Prosper.com: Not a Scam
If you have ever considered taking a loan out online, you have good reason to be weary of scams out there. A number of company that offer loans online have one-sided loan agreements and others are just outright frauds. Because of the increase in popularity of the peer to peer lending industry, many looking for [...]
August 21st, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Verizon FiOs (NYSE: VZ) Bringing TV to Apple’s iPad (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Other Tablet Computers
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Chief Information Office, Shaygan Kheradpir, announced at a press conference yesterday that within the next few months, subscribers to the Verizon FiOS service could be watching their favorite television shows via an application on tablet computers like Apple’s iPad (NASDAQ: AAPL) and maybe even Android powered phones. The application which makes it [...]
August 20th, 2010 | Debbie Dragon | View Comments | Continued
Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) and Visa (NYSE: V) Testing Cell Phones to Make Contactless Purchases
From September through the end of the year, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Visa (NYSE: V) will be testing cellular phones for making purchases in stores in the New York City area. In October, Visa will run a similar test program with US Bancorp. Japan has been using mobile telephones to make payments for [...]
August 20th, 2010 | Debbie Dragon | View Comments | Continued
Gamefly Free Trial: How to Get a 10 Day Free Trial on Gamefly
Gamefly is becoming an increasingly popular way for gamers to sidestep paying Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony $60 or $70 for each new game they would like to purchase. If you’re not familiar with Gamefly, it’s a service along the same lines at Netflix, which targets gamers. The service typically costs $8.95 per month, but you [...]
August 20th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Gamefly Review: What You Need to Know Before Signing Up for Gamefly
Many gamers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with having to pay several hundred dollars to purchase a console such as an Xbox 360 or PS3 and then hundreds more to get all of the accessories that one needs. On top of that, games now cost between $50.00 and $70.00 for a new title. Gamers can sidestep [...]
August 19th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
GE Introduces New Reveal CFL Bulb (NYSE: GE)
GE introduced a new Reveal® Glass Covered CFL which is now available in 9-watt, 15-watt and 20-watt bulbs and all of the bulbs produce clean, beautiful light® which consumers have come to expect from the Reveal® products. These new Reveal® products now are available with the look of standard incandescent bulbs. Reveal® Glass Covered CFL [...]
August 18th, 2010 | trisha | View Comments | Continued
Peer to Peer Lending Companies: The Best Unsecured Loan Lenders
Borrowing money for just about any reason has gotten more difficult since the recession. You now need a larger down payment to buy a home, a better credit score to get a loan, and banks are increasingly requiring borrowers to put up some form of collateral before they are willing to loan anyone money. Fortunately, [...]
August 18th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Starbucks Outlines Vision for In-Store Digital Network (NASDAQ: SBUX)
Starbucks is partnering with Yahoo! for their vision of the Starbucks Digital Network which is expected to be in stores this fall. As discussed in June, the Starbucks Digital Network will give their customers free access to a collection of digital content for free from their one-click Wi-Fi at Starbucks stores. Content providers that have [...]
August 17th, 2010 | trisha | View Comments | Continued
Bank of America Reports Drop in Uncollectible Debt (NYSE: BAC)
According to regulatory reports that were filed this month, consumers are improving their managing of credit card debt. Fewer customers defaulted or made late payments in July compared with June of this year. This perhaps was not expected due to the high unemployment rates and financial difficulties facing many families. However, Fitch Ratings analyst Mike [...]
August 17th, 2010 | trisha | View Comments | Continued
How to Pay Off High Interest Debt Faster with Lending Club
If you have a lot of credit card debt, you might find that it’s very difficult to dig out of that hole because of the high interest rates that banks are now charging credit card customers. Last fall, Citibank announced that even customers with good credit would be having their rates raised to 29.99%. The [...]
August 16th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
How to Get an Unsecured Loan if You Have a Credit Score of 660 Or Above
If you’re in need of some extra money to pay off high interest debt, want to make a major purchase, or have some bills to pay, you can get an unsecured loan from a peer to peer lending site such as Prosper.com or Lending Club if you have a credit score of 660 or above. [...]
August 16th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
Gamefly Coupons: How to Get a Free Trial on Gamefly
If you’re looking for Gamefly Coupons, there are a lot of coupon websites on the web which purport to offer great deals, such as a two month free trial, but the reality is that most of the Gamefly coupon codes online are incredibly out of date and no longer work. If you’re not familiar with [...]
August 16th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
How to Get a Signature Loan Online through Peer to Peer Lending Marketplaces
If you’re in need of some extra cash, but don’t have any collateral to put up to guarantee a loan, consider getting a signature loan from a peer to peer lending website such as Lending Club or Prosper.com If you’re not familiar with the term signature loan, it simply means that you are taking out [...]
August 14th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued
How to Get the “Audible.com/American” Offer for This American Life listeners
Audible, a service which offers downloadable audio books to consumers, has recently began a radio campaign on the This American Life Show in which listeners can receive a free audio book and thirty days of free service with the following url: audible.com/american. Users that take advantage of the offer will receive a 30 day free subscription [...]
August 14th, 2010 | admin | View Comments | Continued



