Target offers customers credit monitoring and identity theft insurance
Target’s efforts to regain customers’ trust after a massive data breach include an offer of daily credit card monitoring, identity theft insurance and access to a fraud resolution agent.Any Target...
View ArticleResell gently used clothes and make money
By Susan TomporDetroit Free PressKathy Adams, 52, has created her own consignment boutique of sorts out of her closet.That L.A.M.B. bag that always seemed too heavy and its matching...
View ArticleHold policies differ among airlines
The “24-hour” airfare hold policy can be confusing.On most airlines you pay for the fare and have 24 hours to change it or get a refund. In fact, if you are booking an airfare in the United States,...
View ArticleIt takes work to acquire wealth
If you want to prosper, you have to work at it.I don’t want to be a dream-killer, but the odds are not in your favor of winning the lottery. And a relative isn’t likely to leave you an inheritance...
View ArticleSmartphones have impact on camera sales
It’s a modern paradox: People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking.Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30...
View ArticlePrivacy grows thinner as technology takes over
We’re no longer just strangers in a crowd.Imagine any street corner in any town where, let’s say, four people – Alexandria, Larry, Cory and Cameron – are lost in private thought.Without a single...
View ArticleHealthNow’s David W. Anderson discusses changes in the health...
Federal health care reforms are triggering dramatic changes in the health insurance arena. David W. Anderson is president and chief executive officer of HealthNow New York, parent company of BlueCross...
View ArticleSanborn team advances to national auto tech finals
A team of two high school seniors from the Niagara Career & Tech Center in Sanborn advanced to a national automotive technology competition after winning a regional competition on Saturday.Andy...
View ArticleWedding insurance expands as nuptials get pricier
HARTFORD, Conn. – Worried about the groom getting cold feet? There’s an insurance policy for that.With the cost of the average American wedding reaching about $26,000, insurers have been selling a...
View ArticleGeneral Mills, late to the Greek yogurt craze, now making a big push
General Mills Inc. will launch a new marketing offensive this week for its Yoplait Greek yogurt, an attempt to take back precious market share lost in the past few years.It will be a tough slog....
View ArticleFactory business declines in December
The Buffalo Niagara region’s manufacturers turned ice cold in December.Local manufacturers said their business took a downward turn during December, snapping a nine-month streak of uninterrupted...
View ArticleCameron exploring ‘strategic’ options that include selling...
Cameron International Corp. could put its centrifugal compression business – which includes a Cheektowaga plant – up for sale, as the Houston-based company explores “strategic alternatives” for the...
View ArticleIncome equality increasing globally
The 85 richest people on Earth own 46 percent of its wealth – the same amount as the bottom half of the population – according to a new report that highlights growing income inequality as political...
View ArticleA-B InBev will pay $5.8 billion for S. Korea’s Oriental Brewery
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world’s biggest beer-maker, has agreed to pay $5.8 billion to buy back South Korea’s Oriental Brewery Co. Ltd. from KKR & Co. and Affinity Equity Partners Ltd.A-B...
View ArticleDefense Department plans boost BlackBerry
BlackBerry Ltd. surged the most in a month after the U.S. Department of Defense said the company’s smartphones will account for 98 percent of devices in one of its new networks.About 80,000...
View ArticleOwner eyes expansion of Pilgrim Village housing complex
The owner of a 90-unit, subsidized housing development on the edge of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is proposing an ambitious, multi-phase expansion to serve the growing medical campus.Mark...
View ArticleMake King’s legacy part of your day
“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations.”– Martin Luther King Jr., Feb. 28, 1954In the chaos of day-to-day family...
View Article12 tips for spending your wealth wisely
The significance of money and wealth goes far beyond material comforts and desires. It goes to the core of human emotions, including security, freedom, self-worth, envy and greed.Regardless of how...
View ArticleFactory business declined in December
The Buffalo Niagara region’s manufacturers turned ice cold in December.Local manufacturers said their business took a downward turn during December, snapping a nine-month streak of uninterrupted...
View ArticleIn Focus: HealthNow CEO on health insurance arena
Federal health care reforms are triggering dramatic changes in the health insurance arena. David W. Anderson is president and chief executive officer of HealthNow New York, parent company of BlueCross...
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