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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!NEW YORK -- With the possible theft of millions of email addresses from an advertising company, several large companies have started warning customers to expect fraudulent emails that try to coax account login information from them. Companies behind such brands as Chase, Citi and Best Buy said over the weekend that hackers may have learned their email addresses because of a security breach at a Dallas-based company called Epsilon that manages email communications. The email addresses could be used to target spam. It's also a standard tactic among online fraudsters to send emails to random ...
Think about it: Have you ever met a single person who didn't launch into a five-minute tirade when asked to comment on the subject of clamshell packaging? You know, the annoying, seemingly indestructible material that protects, say, a flash drive better than the Army protects Fort Knox and is responsible for thousands of emergency room visits every year? Minneapolis Star Tribune / MCT Maybe you haven't heard of "wrap rage," but you've probably felt it when trying to open seemingly impenetrable clamshell packaging of toys and electronics. Yet, even though almost everyone on the ...
(Nov. 26) -- Bargain shoppers, braving rain or frigid weather, crowded the nation's stores and malls in the wee hours of the night to get their hands on deals from TVs to toys on Black Friday. In a bid to grab shoppers earlier on the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, a number of stores including Old Navy, Toys R Us and Sears opened on Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday. Toys R Us was counting on getting an extra boost by opening 24 hours straight, starting at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Patricia Lopez, 32, a receptionist from Queens, N.Y., was in line at the Toys R Us in New York's ...
(Nov. 12) -- With just two weeks to go before what is billed as the biggest shopping day on the American calendar, Black Friday hype is already in full swing. Intrepid bargain hunters brave enough to stare down the pushing, shoving crowds that rush and trample fellow shoppers in pursuit of low-priced stereos, appliances, toys and televisions now have a range of high-tech tools to help them outsmart the competition. Black Friday, there's an app (or two) for that Courtesy of dealnews.com, you can scout out retail gold with the cleverly titled Black Friday App. "Everyone knows that Black ...
The news that Target donated $150,000 to a group supporting an anti-gay Minnesota gubernatorial candidate presents a conundrum. Growing up in the Midwest, one of the highlights of the Sunday newspaper was the Target circular: What's on sale this week? When my stepdaughter moved to Grand Junction, Colo., for a time a few years ago, her first complaint was this: "There's only one Target." Even jaded Manhattanites are reveling in the opening of their first Target store in East Harlem. There's something about the tidy, bright aisles of clothing, cosmetics, kitchenware, household goods -- well, ...
Gay-rights activists are cutting up their Target credit cards and demonstrating outside the retail giant's stores to protest the company's donation to a political group backing Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, who is against same-sex marriage. Target contributed $150,000 to MN Forward, a pro-business group that has endorsed and is paying for ads for Emmer, ABC News reported. The boycott got a major boost Tuesday when MoveOn.org, the Democratic political advocacy group, said it would help with the petition drive to spread the boycott, according to Reuters. On his Web ...
Tony Stewart has been pretty much MIA for any questions from the media in a few of the past Nextel Cup events in the Chase.Currently, the Home Deport Chevrolet sits fourth in series points, 249 points back of the series leader Jeff Gordon.Now, I fully realize that Stewart's rule about attending media sessions was clarified after Phoenix this year, and from that I know that he doesn't have to talk to anyone unless he finishes in the top-3.Let's just say that the top-3 has been elusive for the Indiana driver during the Chase for the Nextel Cup.Regardless, it just doesn't seem fair to Tony's fans ...
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