African-American people are extremely sensitive to discrimination. No matter what form it takes it is ugly and wrong. Unfortunately discrimination has found a home on the Internet. Its called price discrimination. We have all had it happen to us. You search for a product or service and find it at one price but then later,...

Its the holiday shopping season and as I have said before merchants are waging all out war for your shopping dollars.  Wal-Mart is matching Amazon.com’s and pretty much everybody else’s online prices. Price matching is a common weapon retailers aim at each other. The app of the week is Cash Dash and it is the latest...

Ransomware is not hard to understand. Its simply software, or malware, that takes control of your computer, encrypts all your files and threatens to destroy them unless you pay a ransom. Right now CryptoLocker is terrorizing people all over the world and destroying the joy of the holiday season. CryptoLocker is probably the nastiest and...

Nothing is more frustrating than buying something and discovering later that another store has it for less than what you paid. And you know its going to happen sooner or later. Most of the great shoppers know how to go back to the store and ask for a price match. Most stores will give you...

Want to get in the stock market? Have you thought about investing but wondered where to get the money?. Who said you needed a lot of money to invest in the stock market? Acorns, the App of the Week, will help you to begin investing by starting small, very small. The Acorns app is connected...

Here is the good news; you can stay in bed on Black Friday! Here some more good news; You can stay in bed because Amazon is letting you pre-order Samsung televisions at Black Friday Prices. Amazon.com has announced that it is accepting pre-orders on some of Samsung’s most popular television models including the 75 inch...

Its the holidays and the one thing just about everybody will be doing this season is eating, drinking and shopping. African-Americans love a good holiday meal with friends and family. The only way to improve upon this holiday joy is to get the ingredients for a great meal for a substantial savings and possibly even...

You may not know it but holiday spending by American consumers account for as much as half of yearly sales. So every holiday season retailers gear up to fight tooth and nail for your money. Well its not even Thanksgiving yet and it seems Walmart, the big gun in the holiday shopping war, has opened...

Prices for prescription drugs can be extremely high. Even with insurance drug prices can still give you the proverbial sticker shock at the cash register. Insurance companies have a tendency to cover some drugs like generics or selected drugs but not others. And co-pays can vary from 100% to none at all. Some drugs can...

Everybody loves a dollar. Now what if you could get a few dollars for free? Have you drank a Red Bull energy drink in the last 12 years?  If so then they owe you a few dollars.  Are you an AT&T customer? They just settled a lawsuit for cramming their customer bills with unauthorized charges....