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The Build: Where entrepreneurs reveal their biggest challenges
We talk about being “in love” with our careers, but can we use skills from the job hunt to help find a real relationship? For my latest project, a podcast I’m calling The Build, I talked with technical recruiter—and matchmaker—Amber Wanner. Amber founded CandiDate after discovering that many of the IT professionals she placed into technical and…
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How Marty McFly’s sneakers help your credit card company prevent fraud
Maybe not those sneakers per se, but my latest column for Fox Business explores five of the most ridiculous credit card charges of all time, including Tinie Tempah’s recent purchase of a $37,500 pair of Nike Mags. (Don’t worry, it was for charity.) Your credit card company watches for purchases that fall outside your normal…
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The Making of Barclaycard Ring
In an era of big bank consolidation, I’m excited that the folks from Barclaycard have chosen to leverage their “clean brand” to shake up the credit card business here in the United States. I interviewed Barclaycard’s Paul Wilmore for this credit card profile on the Fox Business website.
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Five Weird Food Combos
I don’t always just write about personal finance and music. My first food blog post landed at The Daily Meal this week. I catalog five of the weirdest plates I saw or heard about during my recent trip to New York. Highlights include a pickle marinated in Kool-Aid and a specialty pizza that costs $1,000.…
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Credit Cards of the Future
Fox Business, NASDAQ, and many other outlets in our CardRatings syndicate picked up my feature on four technology trends that could change the way we use credit cards over the next twenty years. I’m not sure if we’ll figure out how to eliminate cash in our lifetime. After all, there’s still something very primal and…
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MSN Feature: Demystifying Your Credit Score
The folks at MSN highlighted a feature I originally wrote for CardRatings.com about the ingredients that make up your credit score. Each one of the four major credit bureaus uses their own recipe: FICO TransUnion Equifax Experian Some bureaus give more weight to what you’ve done with your credit history over the past two years,…
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Best of spinme.com: Cultural significance, microfunding, finding collaborators
I’m through the hardest part of the “remastering” process on the spinme.com books series, so I’ve been able to spend more time posting new essays to the site: “What’s culturally significant?“ I remember being part of a team that asked this question at WXPN in the late 1990s, and it crops up again today. When…
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Best of CardRatings.com: PayPal, Kardashians, APIs
Some of my favorite recent stories from our CardRatings.com Credit Card News blog: PayPal’s mobile app enables person-to-person transactions. It sounds like they want to take on the folks from Square, but Intuit’s rolling up with a serious contender for mobile credit card acceptance. Kim Kardashian launches a prepaid debit card. Brilliant and scary at…
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New “Music Management Skills” Series at spinme.com
As a compliment to the live Music Management Boot Camp series I’ve been running this spring, I’ve started posting a set of quick articles about “Music Management Skills” at spinme.com. Partly, the series reflects the shift in spinme.com’s core audience: I’m not just seeing musicians looking for music marketing advice anymore. Many of the site’s…
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Credit Card News Updates
Recent updates from my credit card news blog at CardRatings.com: Fewer card delinquencies expected in 2010. (It could be because we all lost our shirts in 2009.) Choose between higher fees and lower credit scores. Buy that smartphone with your credit card to protect against theft. Bank of America mails Clarity Commitment letters. (Is that…