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    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 1:52PM 4/10/2012
    Facebook is acquiring Instagram for about $1 billion, and if a hot social network snapping up a popular photo-sharing site sounds familiar, it should. Remember MySpace and Photobucket?

    By Aimee Picchi

    | 1:09PM 10/08/2010
    The Gap earned nearly universal scorn this week when it unveiled its new logo. But the clothing retailer's response -- a crowd-sourcing request aimed at getting the public to design a better logo for free -- is only fueling the backlash against it.

    By Josh Smith

    | 3:30PM 12/03/2009
    On Black Friday Fry's was offering a 52-inch HDTV deal that attracted a lot of attention from shoppers -- so much that one store oversold at least six HDTVs. Couple the mistake with a manger who seemingly couldn't be bothered to address the problem with anything more than a you're out of luck...

    By Josh Smith

    | 6:30PM 9/09/2008
    I haven't heard of another story recently that reinforces the need to check and double check information before making financial decisions. On Monday an investment newsletter mistakenly sent out a story about United Airlines (UAL) filing for bankruptcy which caused the price of the stock to drop as...

    By Josh Smith

    | 9:00AM 8/13/2008
    If you bring me your computer and ask me to put in a new DVD burner but somehow I remove your hard drive and leave a screwdriver inside your computer, how would you respond to me asking you to pay for the "service" rendered? Wow! You can stop with the profanity it was only a hypothetical question....

    By Josh Smith

    | 5:30PM 5/16/2008
    Many parents are going to be unhappy when they open up their stimulus check in the coming weeks and find that the IRS didn't include their children. Despite a government push for No Child Left Behind, the IRS left 350,000 or more families behind when it comes to the economic stimulus package. The...