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PayPal Makes a Play for Small Businesses With ‘Here’

PayPal, a division of EBay, is making a play at small merchants with the introduction of its new  “Here” device, which enables small businesses to accept both PayPal account numbers and major credit cards using nothing more than an iPhone application and the thumb-sized gadget.

Your debt is forgiven, but your taxes are not

Here’s a bit of unhappy news for tax season. The folks over at LowCards.com point out that even if your credit card company has forgiven the debt you owe them, there’s still a good chance you have to pay tax on the amount. That caveat is going to catch a lot of people this year [...]

What’s Worse: Stingy Banks or Thrifty Consumers?

There have been a lot of people blabbing on for the past few months about the new found thriftiness of the American consumer. The savings rate is up, and credit card balances are down. Well it appears, that that later piece of news does not fit as neatly into the thriftier American thesis as it [...]