Published September 30th, 2007
in Business: Strategy.
An article has surfaced on SlickDeals forums that describes Coupon.com spyware like practices. It was quite an eye opener for me to learn to what extends Coupon.com goes to limit/track the coupons you print using their Coupon Printer. In addition there is some interesting information about possible privacy issues with the software. Here are some:
Installing […]
Published September 30th, 2007
in Interesting / Other.
Jonathan from MyMoneyBlog has touched the topic that has always interested me personally: how Fed Funds Rate affects all these savings accounts.
Banks make money by borrowing and reinvesting funds and I would assume Feds Fund Rate is the benchmark they don’t want to go over when borrowing since this is the rate at which […]
Published September 27th, 2007
in Money Saving Tips.
I will confess, I lied to you when I said I would pass on that ING promotion. I couldn’t resist a good deal and applied. Guess what, my application was turned down because I am ineligible. When I called the support I was told that I already have an account with ING. This came to […]
Published September 27th, 2007
in Shopping Promotion.
Ever since Mint tipped me to the possibility of earning interest on my checking account I can’t stop thinking about alternatives to Citibank, my primary bank at the moment. I am not ready to jump the ship just yet but offers like this make it very tempting.
This particular promotion is exclusively for New York Times […]
Published September 25th, 2007
in Business: Strategy.
It is interesting how much attention this small company captured over the past week. Search for mint money management on Google and you get almost 2 million results. I made my own contribution just yesterday where I was questioning the viability of this service. Using web scraping for obtaining financial data is one of the […]