Category — Financial Services

Crowdfunding Campaigns

European start-ups court crowds for cash.

May 11, 2012 Comments

MasterCard Wallet

MasterCard introduces digital wallet.

May 9, 2012 Comments

Bank Deliveries

US banks are using the struggles of another industry for their marketing: The US Postal Service.

March 29, 2012 Comments

Variable Rewards

When it comes to redeeming all those accrued miles and points for travel, not all travel rewards credit cards are created equally.

March 13, 2012 Comments

Battling Banks

Homeowners, sick of being pushed around by the banks, are fighting back, sometimes with David and Goliath results.

March 13, 2012 Comments

PayPal Furor

PayPal has sparked a furor in the publishing world by asking some e-book distributors to ban books that contain “obscene” themes.

March 9, 2012 Comments

Cash Free

A new book asks: Why do we need cash at all?

February 28, 2012 Comments

Bank Withdrawal

More customers leaving big banks.

February 28, 2012 Comments

Crowd-Sourced Game

Video game makers use crowd-sourced funding for new project.

February 14, 2012 Comments

BofA Obit

Bank of America declares live man dead.

February 9, 2012 Comments

BankAmeriDeals

Bank of America is wading into the fast-growing business of offering consumers targeted online discounts.

January 26, 2012 Comments

Debit-Card Dealer

Suze Orman, the money guru introduces her first financial product—and vexes some fans.

January 26, 2012 Comments

Citibank & Facebook

Citibank customers can now use Facebook to pool their rewards points online.

January 4, 2012 Comments

Social Study

Financial advisers see social media benefits decline: survey.

December 27, 2011 Comments

Fee Fizzle

Now lender backing off new fee on overdrafts.

November 14, 2011 Comments

Bank Transfer

One Facebook post becomes national movement to abandon big banks.

November 8, 2011 Comments

BTD vs OWS

It’s not even Bank Transfer Day yet, but already 650,000 people across the country have joined credit unions.

November 8, 2011 Comments

Bank Fee

Bank of America likely to make it easier to avoid debit card fee.

November 2, 2011 Comments

Ka-Ching

Kaching lets users transfer cash by simply clicking on the phone number, email or Facebook ID of the intended recipient.

October 28, 2011 Comments

Sausage & Mash

A cash machine in East London, is offering customers the choice of using the service in either standard English or Cockney.

October 28, 2011 Comments

Wolf Tale

“Wolf of Wall Street” says his story offers lesson.

October 6, 2011 Comments

Square Edge

The brain child of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Square lets anyone take credit card payments using smartphones or iPad tablet computers.

October 5, 2011 Comments

Tweet Beaters

Using social media to predict the stock market is a new fad. Will it last?

September 12, 2011 Comments

Couples Counselors

As markets swoon, brokers become couples counselors.

September 7, 2011 Comments

Buffett Billions

Warren Buffett to invest $5 billion in Bank of America.

August 25, 2011 Comments

Walgreen Insurance

Walgreen Co. plans to sell health insurance.

August 10, 2011 Comments

Walmart Checks

Wal-Mart to accept more kinds of shoppers’ checks.

August 8, 2011 Comments

Google Credit

Google offers credit card to advertisers.

July 22, 2011 Comments

AmEx & Facebook

American Express to offer coupons via Facebook.

July 19, 2011 Comments

Square

Twitter co-founder takes on the credit card business.

June 10, 2011 Comments