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October 26, 2010 - 4:44am | News | Mobile finances
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Starbucks reported a successful implementation of its new Starbucks Card Mobile payment pilot trial with a positive feedback from the customers in select San Francisco, Seattle and Target stores. This prompted the company to further expand the trial to about 300 company-operated stores in New York City and Long Island.
Using Starbucks Card Mobile owners of iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones can pay for their coffee by holding up the 2-D barcode on their smartphone to the scanner at the counter. The application allows customers to manage and reload their Starbucks Cards as well. |
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August 6, 2010 - 7:52am | Figures | News
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As Retrevo.com
managed to find during one of its latest surveys that was aimed to study where
various gadgets end up being used the most, more New Yorkers own iPads than
other state.
Thus far, Retrevo
Gadget Census 2010, unveiled, among other findings, one of the main reasons of
such this may possibly be the fact that the iPad is the ultimate subway
companion. |
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December 10, 2009 - 3:37am | News | Other themes
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Wednesday, Nokia assured it will close its two flagship North American retail stores, in New York and Chicago, on the heels of a similar plans to close its store in London.
Nokia didn't still unveil when the US stores to be closed, but the store on London's Regent Street reportedly will be closed in the first quarter next year.
Since the majority of consumer purchases in North America are made through wireless operators, Nokia will focus on working with those operators and with retailers like Amazon.com and Best Buy.
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September 25, 2009 - 3:04pm | Banks and internet banks | News
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Citigroup unveiled its intention to focus its marketing efforts on six cities, New York, Washington, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, according to Thursday’s Wall Street Journal report.
Thus, Citi, encouraging its retail banking business development, plans to extend branch hours and refurbish branches in chosen cities.
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September 22, 2009 - 9:49am | Fraud | News
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Two men are charged in New York with an $80 million Ponzi scheme involving an automated teller machine business, federal authorities said Monday.
Vance Moore II, 55, was arrested Friday and was scheduled for an initial court appearance Monday in North Carolina, where he resides. His New York attorney, Stuart London, did not immediately return a call for comment.
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August 25, 2009 - 10:13am | News | Other themes
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Letitia James, a councilwoman of New York, wants a city subway station to be named after Michael Jackson so as to honor the great singer. It is the station where the star made the music video for "Bad."
She wants a plaque placed at Brooklyn's Hoyt-Schermerhorn station - or to have "Jackson" added to the station's name. However, Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz said Monday it's unlikely. But the statement didn’t discourage James who plans a petition drive.
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August 20, 2009 - 8:09am | Figures | News
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According to a new survey of 73 cities around the world conducted by the Swiss bank UBS, French people are working least, while Cairo and Seoul citizens spend most hours at work.
Thus, in Lyon people spend at work about 1,582 hours per year and in Paris - 1,594, compared to an average amount of 1,902 in the surveyed cities. At the same time, in Cairo people worked 2,373 hours, while in Seoul they worked 2,312 hours.
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August 14, 2009 - 1:47am | News | Plastic cards
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As it became known Thursday, American Express Co., the biggest U.S. credit-card issuer by purchases, intends to cancel rewards points earned on some credit cards during any month that a late charge is assessed and offer to add them back for a fee. AmEx also said it’s raising rates for cash advances and increasing the late fee.
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August 6, 2009 - 1:13am | Law aspects | News
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Speaking on the sidelines at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Robert Khuzami, the director of the SEC`s enforcement division, said that it plans to issue more subpoenas and give people more incentives to cooperate with investigations as it works to tighten oversight of financial markets. The changes will help the regulator as it focuses "on cases involving the greatest and most immediate harm and on cases that send an out-sized message of deterrence," he added.
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July 29, 2009 - 2:24am | Analytics | News
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The survey conducted by the Forbes magazine revealed that New York is rated the best U.S. city for singles. It is the first time New York wins the title in the annual poll that checked 40 of the largest U.S. urban areas for coolness, cost of living alone, culture, job growth, online dating, nightlife and ratio of singles to the entire population in the area. Previously it was Atlanta who occupied the first place. |
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June 12, 2009 - 6:29am | Law aspects | News
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As it became known on Friday, Shira Scheindlin, the judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, reported the approval to the settlement of 309 cases involving initial public offerings marketed between 1998 and 2000, granting tentative approval to a $586 million settlement in these cases. The settlement hearing is scheduled for September 10.
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March 26, 2009 - 7:41am | Articles | Other themes
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A known magazine Forbes has published the list of the richest cities in the world. According to this reputable edition New York became home to more billionaires than any other city in the world. Here is the full article published at forbes.com.
After losing out to Moscow last year, New York is once again the primary residence of more billionaires than anywhere else in the world. And that's after it lost more than a fifth of its billionaires.
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February 4, 2009 - 3:34am | News | Other themes
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A family incident that took place in the household of the New York judge assigned to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy case leaked into the press. On Sunday morning U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck was charged with attempted assault and harassment against his wife and shortly after midnight Sunday he was brought to Manhattan criminal court. Peck was released without bail.
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January 16, 2009 - 5:49am | News | Other themes
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Supreme Court justice at New York state ruled that now Amazon.com and other online retailers should collect New York sales taxes on goods sold over the Internet to residents of the state. The decision of Justice Eileen Bransten was announced on Tuesday this week. She told that Amazon is required to collect sales taxes on shipments into New York.
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December 15, 2008 - 8:32am | Fraud | News
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Seven months ago Citibank officials noticed suspicious ATM transactions coming through the five cash machines in the vestibule of a Citibank's 65th Street Branch in New York's Upper East Side. When the bank official responsible for the spot got a call alerting him to a theft in progress, he crossed the street to peer through the vestibule glass, and watched as a man in a baseball cap, jeans and a sports coat put a thick envelope into a briefcase and moved from one ATM to the next. The thief was seized and now he pleads guilty to a count of ATM fraud.
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