Cost of getting a show dog to Westminster
Advertising your dog: A winning dog needs press. Canalizo estimates you could spend $1,000 a month on ads to promote your dog in the trade magazines that show judges receive….
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Hot tech stocks: can they last in 2015?
“This is a fresh break out…I think this group continues to head higher,” Parets said. Related: Apple said to be redesigning stores Show me the money: Perhaps the biggest plus…
Nokia is paving the way for driverless cars
Unlike Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL, Tech30) Maps, Here isn’t all that well known to consumers. That’s because most of what it does is behind the scenes for other firms….
Here’s what to really fear about the stock market
It’s even stranger abroad. The yield on 10-year bonds from Portugala country rumored to be on its way out of the eurozone not long agotumbled to a record low of…
Benedict Cumberbatch Marries Sophie Hunter
Benedict Cumberbatch is officially off the market. – HuffPost Entertainment has reached out to Benedict’s rep and is awaiting confirmation. This post will be updated if new information is received.
China’s Top Taxi-Hailing Apps Say They Will Merge
HONG KONG — If you can’t beat them, join them. That seems to be the thinking behind a Saturday announcement that China’s two largest taxi-hailing mobile applications, Didi Dache and…
Sparkling Water Is The New Soda
The hottest drink in America is water with bubbles. Long a kitchen table staple in European households, sparkling water is making inroads in the U.S. thanks largely to Americans’ waning…
Unemployed mom of 4 wins Powerball in North Carolina
“I know she’s looking down at me and happy that I finally made it, we finally made it, and I can actually do this for my kids,” she said. She…
David Carr, New York Times columnist, was one of my dearest friends
Yes, he wanted to protect the boots-on-the-ground reporting, which heretofore relied on print advertising, but he celebrated the “self-cleaning oven” ethos of the web, and he believed in the destiny…
I have to pay back my Obamacare subsidy
Also, just because someone qualified for a certain subsidy at the beginning of the year doesn’t mean they are ultimately entitled to it. It’s the total annual income that matters,…
Greed is back! Stocks at all-time highs
Forget about a 20% drop that would note a bear market. We haven’t had a 10% correction since 2011. The big concerns that spooked investors last month are starting to…
Europe’s economic engine starts to purr again
The French economy lost momentum in the fourth quarter, while Italy just about managed to avoid a third consecutive quarter of contraction. Still, both countries performed slightly better than expected…
Buying a gun silencer just got a lot easier
Related: Gun silencer sales are booming The federal government categorizes silencers as firearms, even though they are accessories that cannot fire bullets themselves. – The civilian market for silencers soared…
Tim Cook: Privacy is a matter of ‘life and death’
So the FBI can still demand a password to the documents with a warrant. But it can’t secretly grab a key from Apple. The company doesn’t have one. Since then,…
Geico accused of discriminating against low-income drivers
But the Consumer Federation of California found that this policy was not being offered to some drivers in California who asked for quotes online. It charges that drivers who are…
Female suicide bomber kills 7 at crowded Nigeria market
The bomber, wearing a hijab, detonated her suicide vest in the midst of shoppers at a weekly market in the town of Biu around 3 p.m. at the peak of…
Whole Foods is red hot again. Sales are surging.
Supermarket chain Kroge (KR)r made a big push into organic food and its stock has been routinely hitting all-time highs lately thanks to strong results. Whole Foods has also had…
The car of the future
“The future of the car is electric, and autonomous,” said Levi Tillemann, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of “The Great Race: The Global Quest for the…
Metals exec: 25% of physical gold buyers are crazy
These so-called crazy gold provide lots of business for Kitco. He said their influence is most obvious in the market for smaller units of physical gold between one and 32…
Penalties await if you claim a bigger fuel tax credit than you’re allowed
Part of the problem may be that while you must have a log of the people from whom you bought the fuel and the purchase dates, you’re not required to…
Bored of your superyacht? Time for a submarine
The machines are custom made but DeepFlight is considering moving to regular production runs as the market grows. In the last few years the company has sold 2 or 3…
Restaurant renaissance: How foodies are rebuilding Johannesburg
Or it could be the doorway to one of the city’s gourmet food markets, havens of organic produce, Seussian cupcakes and fresh roasted coffees. Three major markets have turned into…
A record 3,415 Americans ditch their passports
As both expats and financial institutions rush to understand the new law, some banks have chosen to kick out their Americans clients rather than comply. If a bank mistakenly fails…
West Coast ports shut down as labor dispute heats up
“We want to go to work, and they’re blaming us,” said union president Robert McEllrath in a message to his members late Wednesday. He said the shutdown is a management…
Venezuela Announces Plan to Relax Currency Controls
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan officials on Tuesday announced details of what they said would be a free market in which people and businesses could exchange local currency for dollars —…
Coke CEO calls 2015 a ‘transition year’
Most notably, Coke said that sales in North America rose largely due to what it called a “rational approach to pricing.” Coke has been raising prices of its products in…
Read NBC’s statement on Brian Williams’ suspension
Related: How Brian Williams’ Iraq story changed In addition, we have concerns about comments that occurred outside NBC News while Brian was talking about his experiences in the field. –…
Don’t make these 2 big investing mistakes
Call it a recession hangover. Investors appear to be too scared to get back into the stock marketor even the bond market. “You have to go back to the Great…
TurboTax is warning of email scams after fraud scare
Related: TurboTax restarts e-filing of state tax returns after fraud concerns – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA,…
This Is The Juiciest eBay Listing You’ll Ever Read
In the market for slightly used lingerie purchased originally by a middle-aged married man for a 25-year-old he wanted to sleep with? How weird, you just missed that sale on…