Back in 2008, it seemed like only one thing was certain about the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program: It was a gamble. A really big one. The economy’s problems were unprecedented and the potential remedy untested, which meant that economists could do little more than speculate about how hundreds of billions in bailout money would [...]

2010 is widely expected to be the year Web video enters the mainstream. HD streaming is finally possible on both ends of the pipe; companies are racing to get Web TV playing on real TVs; more and more people continue to stream video from Hulu, even as its stable of shows and videos remain volatile. [...]

The Nielsen company conducted a survey of 27,000 consumers in 52 countries—now that’s a sample!—to find out more about readers’ attitudes toward paid content. What they discovered, and released last week, is that readers are not hostile to paying for content online. They just want better content before they’re willing to pay for it.
Nielsen doesn’t [...]

Retail giant Wal-Mart is wading into the digital content melee by snapping up web-video startup Vudu for a reported $100 million or more. It’s the latest evidence that the still-nascent market for [...]

Board releases online publication on new overdraft rules for debit and ATM cards

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Federal Reserve announces an online consumer guide to credit cards

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Promoted on Hulu’s home page today: a video called “The LoveFeed: Proof That Online Dating Works.” It is, as you can imagine, a fluff news spot about a study into online dating, produced by a Web site called YourTango. It is nothing you need to concern yourself with.
What is delightful, however, is the advertisement that [...]

Online sites keep waiting for a flood of money to come their way. There are tens of billions of online videos being played every month, and almost all of it wants to be monetized. But there isn’t enough advertising to put in front of it. Many advertising budgets remain too skittish to make the leap [...]

Remember your senior year of high school, when all anyone could ask you was “Where are you going to college?”
Well, now that you’re in college, the questions keep on coming, but this time you get it from every new person you meet (which is a lot your freshman year): “What’s your major?”
If you’re undeclared, that [...]

If you’re a high school senior, how are you going about exploring the colleges that interest you?
Are you searching online? Talking to your parents or guidance counselor? Reading up on the literature colleges send you?
These are all good approaches, but when it comes to choosing you college, nothing really beats an in-person visit to the [...]