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Americans are currently saving roughly $250 million per day on gasoline compared to a year ago, according to GasBuddy. Based on a recent GasBuddy survey, those saving have made a difference in travel plans for about 25 percent of respondents. Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) plans to open up a brand new revenue stream by launching its own mobile ad network, according to sources who spoke with Re/Code. The company, which has been under pressure to build an ad network for some time, planned to announce the venture at its “F8” developer...

It used to be, back when everyone filed their taxes by snail mail, that post offices nationwide made it a habit of staying open until midnight, many handing out free donuts and coffee to last-minute filers. Those days are gone, thanks in part to the cost of all that overtime for postal...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s long rumored 3D Smartphone was almost ready to go, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. The device could be officially announced as early as June and begin shipping by the end of September. According to sources, the company demonstrated different...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), by dropping cloud computing costs by a third and storage rates by two thirds, made a big statement about the fact it considers profit margins to be too fat. When was the last time a company said that? At its Google Cloud Platform event in San Francisco, Tuesday, the...

Shares of U.K. bank,Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS), fell nearly seven percent Tuesday on word the bank posted a £329 million ($539 million) loss in the fourth quarter and was poised to cut up to 12,000 jobs this year while at the same time increasing bonuses for top staff 10 percent. Barclays said it...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) may be about to make brick-and-mortar retailers an offer it hopes they don’t refuse. The Wall Street Journal reported this week the online retailer may introduce a Kindle tablet-based checkout system as early as this summer. One possibility would involve Amazon giving...

AOL (NYSE: AOL) owned hyper-local news website, Patch, which had 1000 writers working in 900 national locations in December 2012, is now down to 14 designated market areas (DMAs). New Patch CEO Bud Rosenthal outlined the move in a memo Wednesday morning reported on Poynter. Rosenthal said the...

In an effort to tweak logistics and order fulfillment to an almost unprecedented level, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) employees are packaging, labeling, and shipping Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) products from inside seven different P&G warehouses world-wide, according to The Wall Street Journal...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) aims to make America’s four biggest TV networks an offer they can’t refuse – at least one they won’t want to refuse. The offer is to begin sending weekly reports, letting ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC know how much chitchat their programs generate on the popular social network,...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) wants to provide all its customers with same day delivery of online orders, including groceries and other staples. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to go one better. What’s better than same day delivery? Delivery before you ask. It’s called “ambient commerce” and it is part...

The last several years have seen the beginning of an exponential shift in the economic prowess of U.S. cities. If you were to ask the average layperson which cities he or she believes are on the rise in terms of not only financial growth, but also sustainability, you might get the standard...

With television shows like MSNBC’s Caught on Camera, the world is quite familiar with police cruiser dashboard cams depicting car chases, belligerent drivers and even daring rescues. Now, thanks to a federal judge’s ruling on the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy...

Related: Boeing Statement on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 The New York Times has reported that a Boeing (NYSE: BA) 777 has crash landed at the San Francisco International Airport. Asiana Airlines flight 214 was reportedly flying in to San Francisco from Seoul and carried 290 passengers. David...