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The Hot New Online Retail Strategy: Pushing More In-Store Purchases
You'd think that when retailers enhance their online shopping options, the goal would be increased online sales. Not so with Target, Gap, and Rite Aid—which are...
The Real Reason We Should Cheer the Cellphone “Unlocking” Law
On its face, a bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives last Thursday to permanently legalize cellphone “unlocking” isn’t particularly...
John McCain Wants to Lower Your Cable Bill
In an ideal world, television viewers would only pay for those shows and channels that they actually care about. The concept, known as TV a la carte, has been a...
MPG Rising: When Regulations Drive Up Prices—And Consumers Don’t Mind
If there's one thing Americans would seem to hate more than regulations, it's regulations that directly result in them spending more money out of pocket. So why...
Hot Pizza: So Popular Restaurants Will Try Almost Anything
Pizza is popping up in more (and sometimes unusual) places, and it's being prepared and marketed in new (and sometimes unusual) ways. Why is pizza so hot all of...
Photo Essays
Instant Karma: LIFE With Edwin Land and His Polaroid SX-70
Contrary to what some consumers, amateur photographers and even die-hard techies might assume, instant photography has been around a lot longer than the digital...
LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945
Oil. A simple word that for much of the 20th century, and well into the 21st, has meant unimaginable wealth for a very few; plentiful and (for a time, at least)...
Time.com Specials
Super Bowl 2013′s 6 Most Shared Commercials (And Why They Went Viral)
If it seemed that advertisers were trying more than ever this year to create Super Bowl commercials in hopes they’d go viral, you were right. Television...
Top 10 Conspicuously Expensive Purchases
Fancy cars and flashy jewelry are classics for consumers who are eager to show off
Articles from Around the Web
UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange
Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers ...
Microsoft storms the living room with Xbox One
Microsoft portrayed the third-generation Xbox as a device that could take a central position in the entertainment lives of consumers. That space has become intensely competitive...
Self-driving cars are a privacy nightmare. And it's totally worth it.
But the benefits of self-driving cars are likely to be so enormous that American consumers will sign up in droves, regardless of the privacy implications. Read full article>> ...
Apple avoids billions in U. S. taxes, Senate panel says
Apple, the tech giant that has made a corporate bonanza by selling iPhones, iPads and iPods to consumers worldwide, has avoided tens of billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on its...
