Reporter, Marketplace
Stacey Vanek Smith is a former senior reporter for Marketplace.
This year's games marks the first time a private company — GlaxoSmithKline — is aiding in the fight against athletic doping in the Olympics.
The Olympics get underway later this week but the games have already started. People are betting on all things Olympic from the usual bets, like who will win certain events to less usual bets.
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Coachella, a hip music festival in California, joins the list of music promoters teaming up with cruise operators to attract young travelers.
As people stop using pay phones, New York launches plan to convert the booths into Wi-Fi hotspots. Watch out for sidewalk gridlock.
Cat videos are much more than LOL clips that cubicle dwellers email to each other. In going viral, they're eating up companies' bandwidth.
Retailers hoping to offset fees they pay to Visa and MasterCard may soon be able to charge shoppers for paying with plastic instead of cash.
