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Applying for financial aid is a byzantine process that frustrates even the smartest whiz kid. Now there's a contest geared toward finding new ways toward simplifying the process -- and you get to vote on the idea you think is best.
The Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge is a national...
Mint's 'Drop Your Debt Challenge' pays you to get out of debt
10:30AM 10/26/2010
Have you been looking for an added incentive to drop your debt and start living a better financial life? Well if the lack of credit card payments and money spent on interest isn't enough Mint.com's new Drop Your Debt Challenge is prepared to put Mint's money where your wallet is and give you a kick...
IKEA giving away $100,000, but you'll have to help others
3:00PM 9/16/2010
Being the selfish person I am, the first thing I thought when I saw that the Swedish furniture store IKEA was having a contest offering a one-year sabbatical and $100,000 to advance a project that improves the lives of others, was "Cool, I could really kick back for a year and do a lot of deep...
Buyer (and seller) beware of home giveaway contests
8:00AM 6/30/2010
In every real estate downturn, some home owner whose having a hard time selling their home has what they think is an original (and brilliant) idea: Hold a sweepstakes and raffle off the house! Just charge $1,000 a ticket and require that at least 300 of them be sold before you turn over your keys,...
Citi offering cash prizes to customers who'll go paperless
11:00AM 5/11/2010
If you've thought about getting rid of your paper statement and you're a Citibank customer, your bank has an offer for you. Customers who request online statements or online letters -- instead of paper correspondence -- before July 10 are eligible to win $5,000. There will be six cash prizes of...
Gamer wins $1 million for pitching virtual perfect game
3:00PM 5/07/2010
One Million dollars. That's the prize that 24-year-old Wade McGilberry of Semmes, Alabama won for pitching a perfect game. If you didn't hear the news on ESPN, don't worry, Wade isn't a Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. He is a video game record setter, who pitched his perfect game in MLB 2K10,...
Justin Bieber is NOT giving away 5,000 iPads at WinaiPad.net
10:00AM 4/30/2010
Parents, if you didn't include talking about the dangers of entering online contests with your children when you told them about safe surfing practices now's the time. Cyber Defender just sent WalletPop a warning about a tweet that sounds too good to be true, but may prove too tempting for your...
"Brands have a dramatic power on people." Eran Gefen, the creator of MyBrandz told WalletPop in a phone interview, explaining why his new social network for brand lovers is enjoying early success. "People love brands as people love movie stars," Gefen said. At the end of the day, he said, it isn't...
It's a gimmick to gain attention for their company, but if you're the one who wins, who cares? On Monday, April 5, InCharge Debt Solutions, a nonprofit credit counseling and debt solutions company, is launching a contest in honor of Financial Literacy Month to help one of the more impoverished of...
iPad contests proliferate: beware of bogus ones
12:00PM 3/19/2010
You see them at almost every corner of the Internet -- free iPads from contests that require you to do nothing but enter a drawing, write an essay, or tweet about it. It's a simple and relatively inexpensive ($499 is the entry price for a new iPad) way for a company to get people to its Web site,...
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