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  • The Miami Herald has done a good piece of investigative work into how lack of regulation allowed persons with criminal histories to enter the…

  • Not long ago we wouldn't have seen the news of oil closing just below $130 a barrel as a good thing for our pocketbooks. But here it is from the AP…

  • It's last call for customers of online grocer SimonDelivers.com….

  • If you've set up a new account on a website in the last few years, you're no doubt familiar with the string of random letters and numbers you have…

  • Couldn't resist passing along this story of customer vs. barista that went down at the Murky Coffee shop in Arlington. Va. The customer wanted…

  • Advertisers have found yet another open space — and a client definitely in need of cash — to push their products: the airline boarding pass. The…

  • Yahoo's "Tech Ticker" has a video interview with Tina Sharkey, chairwoman of BabyCenter, which Yahoo says "may be one of the largest interactive…

  • Microsoft and Netflix say they've reached a deal that would make it possible to stream movies over the Internet to your TV, provided your set is…

  • The Mercury News in San Jose is reporting that the abrupt departure of VMware's Diane Greene from the company she co-founded 10 years ago leaves…

  • With $11 billion in losses on their collective heads since the credit crisis began, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are facing the possibility of…