| Vesdia Launches Innovative Rewards Credit Cards
ATLANTA, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Vesdia Corporation, a leading provider of loyalty marketing services, announced today the launch of four new Visa(R) credit cards to support its leading reward programs BabyMint(TM), NestEggz(R), Stockback(R) and FundraiserRewards(R). The card launch in partnership with MXT Card Services provides consumers with additional earning opportunities in the rewards currencies that matter most to them. Consumers can apply for the Platinum Visa cards on the program websites through an easy to use web application, and earn rebates of 1% on any purchase made using the card. The new rewards credit cards offer competitive benefits and no annual fee. Cardholders can earn additional rebates of up to 26% of their purchases at hundreds of retailers in Vesdia's merchant network, including top brands like Eddie Bauer, Illuminations, Best Buy, Gap.com, Lands' End(R) and Banana Republic - representing over 100,000 store locations and service providers, hundreds of catalogs and gift cards, and more than 600 leading online retailers.
Winter Garden Distraction Thief Always Wears Medical Scrubs
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. -- Police in Winter Garden are looking for a thief wearing an unusual outfit. Each time the crook targets someone, she's been wearing medical scrubs. Police said the bandit has been stealing people's wallets and then using their credit cards. For police, the images are very clear, showing three females using a stolen credit card to buy thousands in electronics. But less than an hour earlier, they were posing as church-going customers with the best of intentions While employees at Trophies Unlimited helped their customers, Tammy Carson's wallet disappeared from her desk. At least twice in Winter Garden, and more times in Ocoee, groups have entered stores to distract employees while at the same time raiding purses. In both Winter Garden cases, the same woman was involved and caught on tape wearing scrubs as if she were a nurse or doctor.
Visa Charges On
Not the best time, you might think, to sell shares in the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in Wall Street history. Especially not a financial IPO. Yet here we have credit-card giant Visa, now owned by its member banks, announcing plans to peddle up to 446 million shares of stock in late March for an expected take of between $15 billion and $19 billion. Giant IPOS are usually a sign of good, or at least frothy, times. The current record haul for a U.S. IPO, $10.6 billion, was reaped by AT&T Wireless in April 2000--just after the great tech-stock bubble began to deflate but before anybody realized it. (The world-record holder is and apparently will remain the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, which raised $21.6 billion in an IPO in 2006.) What gives with Visa? One possibility is that the company and its investment bankers are deluded and the IPO will crash and burn--but the current thinking on the Street is that it won't have trouble finding buyers.
Spending detox worth every penny saved
I loved blogging daily at MiamiHerald.com/business (The Frugalista Files) about my experience in spending detox. There were ups (realizing that I had leftover cash after paying both my rent and light bill in a single pay period) and downs (staying home Valentine's Day with no plans). But over all, this has been one of the best experiences of my life. After doing the no-buy month, I realized that I spent way too much and, more importantly, I could change my situation. Like me, many young consumers have a spending problem. According to cardtrak.com, the average credit-card debt per household with a card is $9,659. Many college students graduate with an average of $20,000 in student loan debt. I have both a credit card balance and a student loan to pay off. I want them gone, sooner rather than later.
Mending Credit Status For a Smooth Life
(Best Syndication) Is not it a great idea to have dual advantage from a loan plan? Meet your financial requirements and make yourself free from the clutches of bad credit tag. Some loan plans available in the UK financial market help you to avail this dual advantage. Bad credit is no more a nightmare and you can have a loan in spite of this. Bad Credits, is one of the problems that has its toll over a lots of Britons. People with bad credit history find it hard to avail a loan at the time of deficit. The major cause of this is extensive use of plastic money. People don't use cash anymore because they consider credit cards as cheap financial tool when it comes on buying expensive stuff. .
CTA fare-card vending machines making shift to plastic
It won't make the bus or train arrive any sooner, but the Chicago Transit Authority is installing 60 fare-card vending machines that will accept credit cards, the agency announced Monday.
The machines accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card and American Express credit or debit cards, officials said.
Customers using the machines will be able to buy magnetic-strip transit cards and add to those cards or Chicago Cards, which are electronic smart cards.
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Plenty to be 'jacked up' about at annual NFL Combine
It could be a last-minute decision, but you can bet every coach in the building hopes to see McFadden run the 40 and Ryan partake in the passing drills. "I had Tony Dungy tell me a couple years ago (that) it's not like he can give them a higher mark because they worked out, but he said there's a mental checkmark he puts next to their name," Mayock said. Mayock doesn't rank McFadden among his top 20 overall prospects. Other projected top-five hopefuls are: Virginia defensive end Chris Long, Michigan offensive tackle Jake Long and USC defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis. The little people: The Combine is never short of small-school stars who toiled in obscurity during the season but surfaced on NFL radars. Among the unknowns expected to put in good workouts: Troy corner Leodis McElvin, Tennessee State corner Dominque Rodgers-Cromartie and San Diego quarterback Josh Johnson.
Dowe failed to fulfill promise
It all began with such promise. In 2002, Alfred Dowe was a young, black man -- then 35 -- willing to step forward as a city leader. He was a hometown guy, a known entity; yet he was a relatively fresh face to Roanoke politics. He stood poised to make the leap from the planning commission, an appointed post, to elected office. About a week before the Roanoke City Council election, then-Roanoke Times' Editorial Page Editor Tommy Denton noted in a column that Dowe was among several who "pose the most abundant array of talented, capable and promising council contenders in many moons." Today, Dowe is an ex-councilman, a decent man forced out of office by his own poor judgment. The young man on whom the city, fairly or unfairly, hung its hopes six years ago had no choice but to resign Saturday.
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