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Cherry Is Shutting Down Its On-Demand Car Wash Service
Cherry, a startup that has been described as "Uber for car washes," is shutting down its service as of today, according to a statement from the company. Cherry says that it plans to "pursue an exciting opportunity that emerged while running Cherry."
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Shopping the stores, but buying online
Traditional stores are getting sick and tired of providing the showrooms for online retailers and not getting the sale.
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Toyota Agrees To Pay $1.1 Billion To Settle Unintended Acceleration Lawsuits
Numerous safety recalls have been a blackmark on Toyota's stellar reliability reputation over the last few years. The biggest, and most notable recalls, were for unintended acceleration. Now, a settlement has been reached in the case, and Toyota will be paying out a record $1.1 billion to settle.
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$5 lamp, powered by gravity, just destroyed its funding target on Indiegogo
A lamp for $5 that does not require any electrical power source? It may sound like an impossible dream, but two designers in London have built functioning prototypes of GravityLight, a cheap way for people in developing countries t0 light homes, recharge batteries, or power a radio.
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At peak, Amazon sold a whopping 306 items per second in 2012
The biggest piece of data revealed by the company was the number of packages it sold on the peak day of 2012. On November 26, Amazon sold 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories.
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Top 10 highest grossing movies of 2012
As the year 2012 comes to an end, we take a look at the top 10 Hollywood films which became the highest grossing films of the year.
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17 New Ideas That Are Actually Worth Millions
They raised boatloads of money this year from ordinary people.
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Japanese Electronics Firms Were Dominant, Now They're Apple Suppliers
It was a very bad year for the country's gadget makers.
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The Death of the American Shopping Mall
America has too many malls. Stores don't need nearly as much retail space as they used to, and this is seriously hurting the country's real estate market.
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Top 15 venture capital deals of 2012
We survey the top venture capital investments into tech companies of the year. To make this elite list, you needed to raise at least $89 million in 2012.
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It's official: U.S. hits debt ceiling
U.S. debt reached its legal borrowing limit Monday, giving Congress about two months before it must raise the debt ceiling or risk causing the government to default on its bills and financial obligations.
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Fab Passes 10 Million Members, Sells 5.4 Products Every Minute
Fab has quickly emerged as a significant force in the e-commerce space. The design-focused shopping site now has more than 10 million members, up from 7.5 million in September.
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The Big Mac Index Reveals the REAL Facts On U.S. Inflation!
A look at the trend in prices of the Big Mac clearly shows that investors are being penalized with higher inflation, lower income from bonds and certificates of deposit and being led to believe that the economy is growing better than it really is.
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Rumors of PS4 Restricting Used Games Send GameStop Stock Tumbling
GameStop's stock price closed lower by $1.30, a five percent loss overall, after word this morning that Sony had applied for a patent on technology that could restrict how used games are played on its next console.
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This Map Shows Where Everyone Is Moving To And From In America
Washington DC led the country in net inward migration for the 7th-consecutive year, according to Atlas Vans' annual U.S. and Canada moving trends map (via Catherine Rampell). Meanwhile, New York, New Jersey and most Midwest states continue to see high rates of residents checking out.
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Best Buy Lost $65K In One Day Trying to Price Match Walmart's iPhone Discount
Best Buy dropped the price of the 16GB iPhone 5 to $150 last month, and Walmart bested that with a $127 iPhone. Now Best Buy says lost a whole $65,000 on this one product in just one day because it was forced go meet that lower price.
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Honey Boo Boo’s Mom is Actually Doing Something Smart with Her Reality Show Money
Say what you will about 7-year-old pageant star Alana Thompson -- a.k.a. Honey Boo Boo -- and her proudly redneck family, stars of the hard-not-to-watch-it TLC show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. But thanks to her mother, June Shannon, Honey Boo Boo is set up for some long-term financial stability.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Crazy Plan to Save the Economy With a Trillion-Dollar Coin
The only thing we have to fear is fear of the trillion-dollar coin itself.
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Why Are LEGO Sets Expensive?
What kind of tolerance is there in the size of LEGO pieces?
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Why Apple’s Stock Is Down
Apple’s stock price took another hit Monday, but its continuing decline is months in the making.
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