Features By Sally Herships
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Captcha-22: When online security hurts sales
Ticketmaster is ditching those hard-to-read letters and numbers, called captchas, that users must decipher to make a purchase. It's switching to images, which are easier, faster and more secure.
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U.S. economy shrinks for first time since 2009
GDP shrank 0.1 percent last quarter. Private investment rose, but government spending fell. That bodes ill if automatic budget cuts can’t be avoided.
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OpenTable buys food photo app
OpenTable, one of the biggest online restaurant reservation sites, will pay $10 million for Foodspotting and its hordes of amateur photographers.
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Twitter offers new challenge: 6-second videos
Twitter disproved skeptics of the 140-character tweet. Will it be able to turn a profit from six-second videos? Its new service, Vine, will try.
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Sandy-flooded cars: Buyer beware
Many cars that were flooded by Hurricane Sandy are back on the market. Experts offer tips for how to sniff out a fishy used car.
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Ten tips to avoid buying a flood-damaged car
Many cars that were flooded by Hurricane Sandy are back on the market. Here are a few tips to make sure that you don't buy a Sandy lemon.
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eBay gets boost from mobile bidders
eBay reports fourth-quarter earnings amid high expectations, as tablet and smartphone user bid up business on the online auction site.
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Cars damaged by Sandy make suspicious comeback
Often sold for scrap, many storm-swamped cars are cleaned up and resold with clean records that make no mention of flood damage
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How feelings of deprivation affect consumer behavior
A new study from New York University says the groups of consumers who feel the most deprived are also those most swayed by their emotions.
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Breaking down Santa, Inc.
Christmas is coming up and needless to say, Santa Claus must be busy. He is, after all, really the world’s ultimate personal shopper. And since Marketplace is a business program, we couldn’t help but wonder what sort of enterprise Santa runs.
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