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The Super Bowl of Counterfeiting: Scammers Run Their Own Play Fakes for the Big Game
4:50PM 2/03/2012
The quantity of counterfeit goods entering the U.S. is increasing, and it gets worse around an event like the Super Bowl. Federal agents recently seized more than $6 million of counterfeits and shut down more than 300 illegal websites. But consumers are at risk for more than just getting a shoddy NFL jersey.
Do Super Bowl Ads Score for Their Companies' Stocks?
1:15PM 1/31/2012
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool
Investing, Media, Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, salesforce.com, Apple, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Yahoo, Best Buy
The Patriots and Giants will interrupt the entertainment to run some football plays, but everyone knows the Super Bowl is all about the commercials, and at $3.5 million for 30 seconds, sponsors must think they'll get their money's worth. But will their shareholders feel the same way?
Super Bowl Spending Is Up ... and It's Good
9:05AM 1/30/2012
Retailers and consumer products companies are on charging downfield toward a touchdown on Super Bowl Sunday. Consumer spending related to the big game is expected to reach an all-time high this year, with the average watcher projected to shell out $63.87 on Super Bowl-related merchandise.
It's hard to fathom that something as mundane as weather could affect employment statistics. But it clearly does. And it also has big impact on how much work actually gets done. And beyond the snows of winter, there's distractions like the Super Bowl that keep worker from their duties.
How to Throw a Super Bowl Party for Less
4:00PM 2/01/2011
In the Midwest where I live, we had our own version of the Super Bowl last week when the Chicago Bears played the Green Bay Packers for the NFC championship. My home town of Chicago is still licking its wounds, and most people here don't have the cash or the enthusiasm for another football party....
Super Bowl Brings Out Scams: Ticket, Hotel and Check-Cash Ripoffs
4:00PM 1/27/2011
Extracurriculars, Retail, Biz Brief, Consumer Ally, Travel, Family Money
The Super Bowl is ripe for scam artists looking to lure excited fans away from their money. Pennsylvania's Acting Attorney General Bill Ryan says he's seeing bogus sweepstakes offers, fake travel packages and phony ticket offers, and wants people to beware.
"It's important for football fans to...
Fox Broadcasting Has Sold Over 90% of Superbowl Ad Time
6:39AM 9/16/2010
News Corp.'s (NWS) Fox Broadcasting has sold more than 90% of its Superbowl advertising time, almost five months ahead of the event.
The broadcaster is charging an average of about $3 million for a 30-second ad, Reuters reported without naming its sources.
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Savings Experiment: Buy or Rent? You'd Be Surprised
6:00PM 2/17/2010
Say the phrase "owning vs. renting," and you're likely to find yourself in a debate between the merits of a mortgage and a landlord. But that's thinking small -- these days, almost anything you can buy, you can also rent. This particularly makes sense when you're talking big-ticket party or home-improvement equipment, whether it's a big-screen TV, a steam carpet cleaner or a rototiller for your garden.
Man-up: Free pants from Dockers
10:00AM 2/09/2010
Where I come from, traipsing around in underwear that possesses only a memory of elastic is referred to as doing the walk of shame. But maybe that's just me. In a message that manages to channel both Lady GaGa and the dudes from The Full Monty, Dockers debuted its newest ad campaign during Sunday's...
The Colts may have lost the Super Bowl, but to the people of Haiti, they are champions -- at least on the National Football League championship merchandise now headed to the earthquake-ravaged country.
The NFL and its merchandise partners always make two sets of championship gear, such as...
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