Apple Offering $10K Prize for 50 Billionth App Download
Image Credit: Apple(NEW YORK) — Apple is celebrating its approach of the 50 billion App Store download milestone with a big contest.Be the lucky user to download the 50 billionth app and Apple will send you an App Store gift card worth $10,000. The ve…
Woman Sues Make Up Company for False Advertising
Lancome(MONSEY, N.Y.) — Rorie Weisberg, an Orthodox Jewish woman in Monsey, N.Y., takes advertising claims seriously. So when she read copy for Lancôme’s Teint Idole Ultra 24H foundation, which is supposed to stay on for an entire day and …
Study: One-Third of Facebook Users Deactivate Their Account
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ITHACA, N.Y.) — Over a third of Facebook users take breaks from the site by deactivating their account for reasons ranging from avoiding a boss’s friend request to addiction, according to a new study from …
Frontier Airlines Will Charge Some Customers for Carry-Ons, Soft Drinks
Frontier Airlines(DENVER) — Another domestic airline will charge passengers for carry-on bags.
Denver-based Frontier Airlines announced Wednesday it would begin charging passengers who book tickets on third-party web sites — such as Expedia and Orbit…
Infidelity Dating Site Ashley Madison Uses Mark Sanford in Ad
Davis Turner/Getty Images(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — Residents of Columbia, S.C., were greeted Tuesday with a new billboard advertising a dating website for married people, which featured an image of former South Carolina governor and admitted philanderer Mark…
Realty Firm Offers Raise for Company Tattoo
Gabriel Chapman(NEW YORK) — Anthony Lolli, founder and owner of Rapid Realty, is giving his employees a chance to show their team spirit and earn some extra cash by getting a tattoo of the company logo on their bodies.Rapid Realty, based in Brooklyn, …
Yahoo Offers Competitive Maternity Perks
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Parents and parents-to-be who work at Yahoo will be thrilled to hear news of its new, more generous maternity and paternity leave policy.The company, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will give mot…
Apple’s Upcoming iOS 7 May Have New Look
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Speculation is rampant about what visual changes Apple may work into the latest version of its mobile device software, iOS 7, set to be announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, June 10-14.S…
Professional Cuddler Criticized for Business
iStockphoto(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) — They say everybody needs a hug now and then, and one woman is facing criticism over a business she started to address that need.
Jackie Samuel is a professional cuddler. Her business, called The Snuggery, operates out of…
Prom Costs Rise 5 Percent to National Average of $1,139
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The cost of going to prom — the perfect dress or tuxedo, a limo, and pre-dance festivities — has risen to a nationwide average of $1,139.
That figure represents a 5 percent increase from the $1,078 in 2012 that American…
Cincinnati Reds’ Fans Hit Home Run in Free Pizza Deal
Fuse/Thinkstock(CINCINNATI, Ohio) — Cincinnati Reds’ fans who love pizza are in luck this season thanks to a red-hot streak from the baseball team’s pitching squad.
Whenever the Reds strike out 11 opposing players, Reds’ tickets holders for that game …
Redesigned $100 Note to Begin Circulation in October
United States Treasury(WASHINGTON) — Benjamin Franklin is getting a make-over.
The Federal Reserve Board announced on Wednesday that a new, redesigned $100 note will go into circulation on October 8, 2013.
The new $100 note has several new security fe…
United Airlines Raises Fee for Changing Flights
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The next time you book a flight on United, you’ll want to be very sure about your plans, because changing them just got more costly.
The carrier has increased the fee for changing a flight from $150 to $200. Th…
Online Fundraising Raises Money Quickly for Boston Bombing Victims
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — The recovery process for many victims of the Boston Marathon bombing will be slow, arduous and expensive. Numerous victims suffered severe injuries to their lower limbs, with multiple patients having one or more ampu…
Retail Surveillance Assists Authorities with Crimes Outside Stores
FBI(NEW YORK) — Retail surveillance cameras are doing more than just capturing shoplifters, as authorities turn to businesses who keep a digital eye on their storefronts.Surveillance footage played a critical role in helping authorities identify the t…
National Record Store Day 2013: Support Your Local Music Store
iStockphoto(New York) — While most people are downloading and listening to music on ipods and through online streaming sites like Pandora and Spotify these days — there’s nothing like spending a day in a record store.
Created in 2007 by a …
Movement to Replace Boat Ruined in Standoff with Suspected Bomber
Bing(WATERTOWN, Mass.) — America wants to help David Henneberry get a new boat.
The Watertown, Mass., resident became a hero when he discovered suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in his backyard boat.
Henneberry quickly called t…
‘Exemplary Employee’ Takes CFO Hostage
Image Credit: El Segundo Police Department(EL SEGUNDO, Calif.) — An “exemplary” employee at a California food company is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on multiple charges after she allegedly held the firm’s chief financial off…
‘Exemplary Employee’ Takes CFO Hostage
Image Credit: El Segundo Police Department(EL SEGUNDO, Calif.) — An “exemplary” employee at a California food company is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on multiple charges after she allegedly held the firm’s chief financial off…
‘Exemplary Employee’ Takes CFO Hostage
Image Credit: El Segundo Police Department(EL SEGUNDO, Calif.) — An “exemplary” employee at a California food company is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on multiple charges after she allegedly held the firm’s chief financial off…