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The Firestone Complete Auto Care credit card offers customers a method to finance car repairs, scheduled maintenance, and new tires at Firestone locations across the United States. The card offers several benefits above and beyond a traditional credit card. However, the fine print spells out a few stipulations that potential cardholders should be aware of before applying. Key Takeaways The Firestone Complete Auto Care card is a store-branded credit card that can be used only at Firestone locations and is not accepted at other retailers or ATMs. The Firestone credit card is issued through a third-party finance company, Credit First National Association (CFNA). You can use the Firestone card to charge the cost of automotive repairs, maintenance, tires, and other purchases made at Firestone. The card includes a zero-interest offer for six months on major purchases of $149 or higher.   To take advantage of this offer, the cardholder must make the minimum payment on tim...

For much of the past two years, Lim Hyeon-jeong and her 10 contact-tracing colleagues in the South Korean city of Daegu gave themselves a nickname: Zombies. They skipped meals, power napped at their desks, and sprinted to any restaurant, bar or church that reported a Covid-19 case—at all hours. Any slip-up, Ms. Lim believed, could ignite a nationwide outbreak that could puncture South Korea's stellar record against the infectious disease. Now... For much of the past two years, Lim Hyeon-jeong and her 10 contact-tracing colleagues in the South Korean city of Daegu gave themselves a nickname: Zombies. They skipped meals, power napped at their desks, and sprinted to any restaurant, bar or church that reported a Covid-19 case...

Type a query into a search engine and one of the answers is likely to be the exact product or service solving your question, ready for you to buy. But this isn't a spooky coincidence, it's search advertising. How it works is that brands bid on keywords and phrases for the opportunity for their ad to show on the results page of whatever you happen to be searching for . Because it is based on the explicit need of the customer, the likelihood of clicks and conversions are higher than other forms of advertising.  "Search is this incredible database of intentions," says James Murray, Europe product marketing lead at Microsoft Advertising. "When somebody makes a search, they're giving you access to what they're thinking at that particular moment in time and what their intent is."  A third of people click on a paid search ad because it directly answers their search query Market studies show one-third of people click on ...

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Bank of America , the second-biggest lender in the Paycheck Protection Program, is refusing to forgive some small business owners' loans and blocking them from getting relief directly from the Small Business Administration, which oversees the PPP program. One of the first forms of aid Congress offered to businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic was PPP loans, which were meant to be forgiven completely if used to cover payroll and other specified expenses. But in over a half-dozen interviews and emails with The Intercept, small business owners who got their PPP loans through Bank of America described the same experience: A year or more after they first received their loans, they were told that the bank determined they had originally received too much money and that it would only forgive a portion, leaving them to pay back the remainder with interest. Jose Ramos, owner of Kin-Keepers in Virginia, was told that none of his $67,500 PPP lo...