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RadioShack Bankruptcy Trustee Wants Customer Mailing Lists Removed From Auction

http://ift.tt/18U9B47 ( Phillip Pessar ) Bankrupt RadioShack doesn’t have a lot of assets left that anyone might want, but one very marke...

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Google Apologizes For Android Figure Urinating On Apple Logo In Google Maps

http://ift.tt/1GscNCP Ooops? Unlike The Dude,* it would appear that every time an Android figure is pictured micturating upon an Apple lo...

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Police Seek Woman Who Stuffed $1,140 In Electronics Inside Her Skirt

http://ift.tt/1GqwYOu A dress with a flowing full skirt is a great fashion choice for a hot day, so the woman who walked into a RadioShack i...

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That Was Fast: Charter Reportedly Already Reaching Out To TWC About Possible Merger

http://ift.tt/1F4sIBE Today’s headlines are all about Comcast failing to buy Time Warner Cable, but there weren’t just two players in the ga...

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Eyewear Maker Luxottica Says The New Version Of Google Glass Is On Its Way

http://ift.tt/1By5Pbq Out with the old, in with the new. For those who didn’t get a chance/didn’t want to jump on the Google Glass bandwa...

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How A 90-Minute Presentation Turned Into A 2-Year Timeshare Nightmare

http://ift.tt/1OPpirb Not even once. ( Misfit Photographer ) Most Consumerist readers consider themselves savvy and resistant to marketin...

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Showtime May Soon Announce Standalone Streaming Service

http://ift.tt/1Dl18hH Back in Nov. 2014, CBS CEO Les Moonves said that his company’s Showtime network would “fairly definitively” launch som...

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Comcast Can’t Buy TWC, But There Are Plenty Of Other Companies They Can Spend $45B On

http://ift.tt/1Fxk9T9 ( Steven DePolo ) Comcast’s dream of achieving full coast-to-coast cable dominance this year came to an official en...

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Health Officials Issue Warning Over Uptick In Hospitalizations Linked To Synthetic Marijuana

http://ift.tt/1KdzCbU ( Meneer Dijk ) One of the biggest dangers involved with using so-called designer drugs? One tweak to one chemical ...

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DeVry Closing 14 Campuses, Moving Students Online

http://ift.tt/1JlRNOI DeVry is shuttering 14 campuses in 11 states, and moving those students online. Amid lawsuits, scandals, shutdowns ...

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Court Dismisses Yelp Shareholder Lawsuit Over Bogus Reviews, Inflated Stock Prices

http://ift.tt/1GfLiH4 Last summer, some Yelp shareholders filed a class-action lawsuit against the online review site, alleging that Yelp mi...

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Police: Thief Spent 15 Minutes Dragging Cooler Full Of Stolen Ice Cream Past Napping Gas Station Clerk

http://ift.tt/1EzFtcC (via Sun Sentinel ) There’s being asleep on the job, and then there’s napping so hard that you apparently don’t not...

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Starbucks Sales Are Up Because People Are Willing To Spend More On Pricy Menu Items

http://ift.tt/1IQNV4Z ( frankieleon ) In the bid to part customers with their hard-earned cash, Starbucks is raking in the cash these day...

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Comcast CEO Tries To Cheer Up Employees Following Implosion Of Time Warner Cable Merger

http://ift.tt/1bB8XtW You have to respect a man who had the foresight to allow his dad to build him a multibillion-dollar cable and Interne...

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Diet Pepsi Switches From Aspartame To Sucralose

http://ift.tt/1H43BRd ( JY O’Reilly ) As consumers slowly lose interest in diet beverages and in sodas overall, PepsiCo is out to follow ...

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It’s A Comcastrophe: A Look Back At How Comcast Failed To Buy Time Warner Cable For $45B

http://ift.tt/1y65An3 ( Knight725 ) We were skeptical from the start , but obviously someone at Comcast believed that the company would ...

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Mattel Discontinuing SeaWorld Trainer Barbie And All SeaWorld-Branded Merchandise

http://ift.tt/1Ez1b0s Barbie won’t be training whales at SeaWorld anymore, as reportedly Mattel confirmed that it’s ceasing production of al...

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Failure To Be Undeniably Hot No Longer An Impediment To Getting A Job At Abercrombie & Fitch

http://ift.tt/1DHhCkx ( NYC♥NYC ) In a further attempt to shed its image as a place where rippling six-packs and bronzed bodies go to com...

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It’s True: The Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger Is Officially Dead

http://ift.tt/1z0Q5PK As it was predicted yesterday , so it has come to pass: after 15 months of trying to get it approved, and opposition n...

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Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds

http://ift.tt/1I3XTBP Here are ten of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last two weeks, picked for u...

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