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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,...

Feeling creative? Well, Dollar Tree is having a contest that requires more than just filling out a form and answering a skill-testing question. The folks at Dollar Tree want you to tell them why you love your Dollar Tree by putting it in writing, making an audio or video file or expressing it in...

"I don't like it but I guess things happen that way," may have been the lyric that Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia set out to sing on Wednesday night, but a phone call from Apple CEO Steve Jobs thanking him for downloading "Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash, the 10 billionth iTunes...

If you've been holding off on buying a bunch of music, now's the time to open up iTunes and start buying for your chance to win big. Just as Apple has celebrated previous milestones in the iTunes store, it is marking the sale of the 10 billionth song sold on iTunes by giving the user who downloads...

It sounds like the deal of a lifetime: Spend a year eating out at restaurants, living in hotels, skydiving and doing other exotic activities, all for free. And at the end of the year, collect $100,000 for your troubles. Troubles? What troubles could anyone have after living such a high life? The...

If you've thought of starting a business this year, but haven't gotten around to it because of the recession, maybe this $100,000 contest might spark your interest toward getting an online store running. Shopify, a site that helps create online stores, is sponsoring a contest where the winner gets...

It's obvious that you like people to know about your day. You post status updates every five minutes to Twitter, upload pictures to Facebook like it's going out of style and are video-blogging your every move on YouTube. So why not turn that compulsion for sharing into a payday by entering the...

It's been mocked, praised, even called evil, and now Australian wine maker, Yellow Tail, is giving it a try. Crowdsourcing, or throwing out a task or problem usually handled by one person (typically an employee) to the public, has been bashed for exploiting workers and disrupting the...

How much work are you willing to do for free? For more than three years, teams of heavily invested and entirely uncompensated computer scientists poured their creative efforts into a goal that only a true techie could appreciate -- improving the algorithms that Netflix uses to make movie...

Peer to Peer lending isn't just a good way to get a loan for consolidating your debt or launching a small business, it's also a great way to invest. LendingClub.com, one of the best known p2p lenders, is celebrating its growth and the popularity of peer-to-peer lending by giving away $2,500 to...