| Vesdia Launches Innovative Rewards Credit Cards
ATLANTA, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Vesdia Corporation, a leading provider of loyalty marketing services, announced today the launch of four new Visa(R) credit cards to support its leading reward programs BabyMint(TM), NestEggz(R), Stockback(R) and FundraiserRewards(R). The card launch in partnership with MXT Card Services provides consumers with additional earning opportunities in the rewards currencies that matter most to them. Consumers can apply for the Platinum Visa cards on the program websites through an easy to use web application, and earn rebates of 1% on any purchase made using the card. The new rewards credit cards offer competitive benefits and no annual fee. Cardholders can earn additional rebates of up to 26% of their purchases at hundreds of retailers in Vesdia's merchant network, including top brands like Eddie Bauer, Illuminations, Best Buy, Gap.com, Lands' End(R) and Banana Republic - representing over 100,000 store locations and service providers, hundreds of catalogs and gift cards, and more than 600 leading online retailers.
Just Rewards?
Cash back, frequent-flier miles, gift certificates: more than 55% of all credit-card offers have some type of reward attached to them, according to the latest survey by Mintel's Comperemedia, a company that monitors direct-mail solicitations nationwide. Needless to say, the rewards can be great. Every time you use your Chase Disney card, for example, 1% of your purchases goes into an account you can use to pay for trips to Disneyland and Disney World. You get a check for $25 every time you spend $2,500 on your Chase Free Cash Rewards card. Signing up for a rewards program seems like a no-brainer. After all, it's a free perk, right? .
Fredonia Baby Needs Life-Saving Liver Transplant
"The numbers are not what they should be and we're just going to continue to run some tests to see what they are," said Lydia Walnicki.
Not what she wanted to hear from the doctor after giving birth to her baby girl.
"There really is no cure for her condition. You wish all the time that you could spare your child, with all the treatment that she has to go through," said Walnicki.
Piper was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia, a condition that affects the liver and only one in every 15,000 to 20,000 babies.
"You go through all kinds of feelings, you wonder, is there something that I did, my husband wondered if there was something he did, something in our lifestyle, I was wondering did I not eat healthy enough during the pregnancy," said Walnicki.
Subprime Borrowers: Not Innocents
The result is that America will be forced to save more and sell some of our assets (companies and real estate) to foreign debt holders (a.k.a. margin call). In other words, the growth in American standard of living is going to slow down for quite a few years. .
Gift ban restored, but ruling leaves much unsettled
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Wall St lifted higher by retailers, banks
US STOCKS rebounded overnight in an abbreviated session as the start of holiday shopping lifted retail stocks, while progress in a plan to relieve the credit market's strain aided bank shares. Shares of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup all rose more than 2 per cent. The three banks, spearheading an effort to establish a superfund to ease problems in the credit market, are expected to seek support from others in the industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. Discount chain Target led retailers higher as droves of shoppers turned out - in some cases before dawn - for Black Friday, the official beginning of the holiday shopping season. Trading volume was thin in the shortened session. US financial markets were closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving. On Wednesday stocks suffered heavy losses on credit market and housing sector worries.
Patent reform debate heats back up
Some tech groups are beginning to worry that major IT industry priorities, including patent reform, may lose out to other priorities in the U.S. Congress this year. In the last couple of weeks, large tech companies have renewed their push for patent reform legislation in the U.S. Congress, despite opposition from U.S. President George Bush's administration and some labor unions. The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is concerned that a congressional debate over an economic stimulus package, plus typical election-year gridlock, could hurt the prospects for patent reform and other tech priorities, said Michael Wendy, a spokesman for the trade group. The House of Representatives' economic stimulus package includes tax write-offs for small business purchase of equipment, which could include computers, Wendy said.
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