Verizon reverses on $2 fee for one-time payments (AP)
AP – After a customer backlash, Verizon Wireless on Friday dropped a plan to start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit or debit cards.
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Letter airs harassment claims against HP’s ex-CEO (AP)
AP – Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd’s efforts to impress an HP event hostess included showing her his checking-account balance holding over $1 million, according to a letter detailing the sexual harassment allegations that led to his ouster.
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SC company sues ex-worker over Twitter followers (AP)
AP – An Internet company has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the firm.
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Del. court says ex-HP CEO can’t keep letter secret (AP)
AP – Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd will have to make public a letter detailing sexual-harassment allegations that led to his ouster.
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Verizon Wireless to charge $2 for one-time payment (AP)
AP – Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest cellphone company, said Thursday that it will start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit cards.
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Physicist builds Lego Large Hadron Collider (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News – As scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland continue their search for the elusive Higgs boson God particle, one physicist has built a tribute to their work entirely out of Lego bricks. Sascha Mehlhase, a researcher at the Niels Bohr …
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Asus sued by toy robot maker for naming its tablet Transformer Prime (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News – To be reminded of robots whenever the Asus Transformer tablets are mentioned is inevitable. After all, Hasbro’s line of Transformers toy bots has enjoyed tremendous popularity in recent years, thanks to Michael Bay’s film trilogy. The toy company thinks that the …
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Jewelry Site Plukka Turns Group Buying On Its Head (Mashable)
Mashable – The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Plukka
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Verizon to add $2 bill-pay charge (Reuters)
Reuters – Verizon Wireless, which this month angered customers with three separate data service problems, said on Thursday it will add a $2 fee for one-time telephone and online bill payments.
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Netflix, Gap lag in customer satisfaction online (Reuters)
Reuters – Netflix Inc and Gap Inc were among the worst performers in customer satisfaction among the largest online retailers this holiday season, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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