It’s easy to forget to bring a gift card when you go shopping, and it’s simple, too, to lose track of gift cards received during holidays past. A new iPhone application from Wildcard Network aims to make gift cards more convenient to use. The free app helps iPhone users manage gift cards from about...
Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people’s longevity. Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s health-a costly process. Today, however, data-gathering companies have such extensive files on most U.S. consumers-online shopping details, catalog purchases, magazine subscriptions,...
We all know that the LA Times has great reporters and does Pulitzer Prize winning stories around the world. Too bad it doesn’t devote more of its energy covering stories in its own backyard. For more than two years a scandal has been brewing about the Better Business Bureau, the not-for-profit firm that for...
Better Business Bureau chapters in Canada – supervised by the 122 chapter BBB North America Council – are now being accused of giving favorable treatment to its dues paying accredited businesses. In an investigative story this week by Kathy Tomlinson, CBC News, found that dues paying moving businesses were given higher grades than non-accredited...
