Is 'pay as you throw' a good idea?
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Councils in England will be allowed to pilot schemes to charge households according to how much rubbish they throw out. Is this the best way to promote recycling?
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Comcast announced a service at CES that sounds an awful lot like Netflix. I already pay Comcast over $100 a month for various services. I pay Netflix $20 per month, and what Comcast is proposing is even more useful and easier than what Netflix offers. If it actually is, it would be easier to turn off the Netflix service. Netflix has a unique opportunity with X years of preference data for users that they still have active relationships with. Open the service up so that other websites can integrate their services with yours, the prototype being a dating site that matched people with others who like the same kinds of movies. Build a network of utility to lock users in with a feather instead of a deadbolt.  The uniqueness of Netflix is about to go poof. Time to build a new kind of uniqueness. It might be too late, but let's hope it's not. I don't really expect Comcast to share data with other service providers. It's not in their nature. Netflix -- zig while they match your (old) zag.
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Does casting a star raise a movieâs box-office take? A paper soon to be published in The Journal of Marketing tries to solve that problem using a site that lets participants trade in âstocksâ of movies.
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A simple, "pay what you like" offering breaks all the rules and helps set the stage for the splintered future of the music biz. Bands need to treat marketing and management decisions as a valid part of the creative process. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Cash is not trash, it's the basis for a successful financial life. Having some money stowed away for a rainy day will keep the tax bill, unexpected illness, or a broken appliance from stealing your peace of mind. Having an additional amount put away for a future stock market purchase is even better.
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Supplement your income with dividend payers.
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Could it be a guaranteed way to make money?
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Comment is free: Deborah Hargreaves: Reward for performance is one thing. But today's executive pay is farcically overblown.
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A Pay-Go or Pay-as-you-Go means the government will spend only what it gets. This has been widely spoken about by US Presidential candidate John Kerry, in his campaigns.
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They're cheap, but is the timing right?
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How you pay -- paper vs. plastic -- can put a crimp in your spending power.
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Don't worry about fair. Just pay as little as you can.
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If you want to make money go to where the people are paying.
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It's time to add new money. What will you do?
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Finding the right mix can put more money in your pocket.
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Why leave any free money on the table?
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Psst . . . Have I got a deal for you: a dirt-cheap mortgage that lets you decide how much to pay each month. And don't worry about your lousy credit rating . . .