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Some of us do it every day: We swipe our debit card then either sign our name or enter a PIN number -- and (voila!) the purchase is done. But little do consumers know that when they sign for a purchase they are costing retailers significantly more than if they enter their PIN -- a fact that could...

A fresh new study about how consumers use Twitter to talk about brands is being published in an upcoming issue of "The Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology," shedding some light on how many people are Tweeting about brands and what they're saying. The study done at...

After IBM (IBM) decided to not follow through with its purchase of Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Oracle (ORCL) slipped in and made the deal a reality. Oracle has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Sun common stock for $9.50 per share cash. The premium for the deal comes in at $2.81 per...