Powered by NFC technology, Google Wallet allows your phone to act as your credit card. By tapping your phone (only Android at this time) against a compatible chip reader available with select shops, your payment information are transferred to the merchant without swiping any physical card. Google Wallet in fact aiming for a plastic credit card extinction. While the idea of combining your phone and your credit cards may be scary, Google Wallet, in theory, is more secure than a plastic card. If you haven’t used Wallet in the past 30 minutes or so (or if you manually lock it),…
What a great week it was. FPR is seeing some stray visitors on the site. The SE traffic haven’t opened up and we saw only a couple of visitors from search sites. Roundup of best reviews and other articles I am part of a budding and enthusiastic Yakezie challenger group of bloggers. Every week we help and promote each others work. The following is some of the best post written by this group of fantastic folks over ta Yakezie Cult of Money presents his gains from Prosper Lending Program. Evolving PF presents Private School Angst. Simple Island Living presents Why…
If you are a heavy shopper at Best Buy, you may want to use Best buy rewards zone, if you want to maximize your rewards and score some deals every once in a while, you may apply for Best Buy Reward Zone® Credit Card Like most credit cards offers, the Best Buy Credit Card offers an incentive for signing up, but it varies. If you sign-up in person at a Best Buy store, you may receive a discount on your first purchase using the card. If you sign-up online, there is no discount. The card also includes a rewards program…
The Following is a guest post from Barbara Are you struggling to pay off your overwhelming credit card debt? If the answer is yes, then you can hire the services of professional debt arbitrators to wipe out your debts. Debt settlement is a process through which your principal balance will be reduced making the outstanding balance affordable to pay off. But these days, it might be difficult to find trustworthy debt settlement firms. The scam companies are shrouding like a black cloud over the debt relief market and take advantage of the susceptible debtors to extract money from them. However, in…
I didn’t know this card is one of the oldest reward card in the market. Needless to say more than half of Discover card holder portfolio contains Discover® More® Card members. I also didn’t know that Discover cards have an orange edge, which is there to assist you getting out the card from your wallet. Discover says that Orange symbolizes the care and commitment they have for the card members. They want to make sure you get the orange out from a stack of whites and blacks. Good thinking! Now that you discovered two great facts about Discover, let’s try to find all…
Finally I have become member of the great Yakezie network with my other blog, One Cent at a Time. It’s time to grow Finance Product Reviews with yakezie now. I joined Yakezie challenge today with an Alexa ranking of 1.9M. About Yakezie: The Yakezie is the web’s largest personal finance and lifestyle blog network. Started in December of 2009, and have since grown to become a thriving community eager to help others. We strive to optimize reader’s personal finances and allow people to lead better lives. We are over 80 Members strong community of bloggers with individual voices, individual owners and different…
Credit cards are made to be convenient, but you have to know which credit card is going to be the most convenient, or going to get you the most advantage with its use. The Chase Sapphire credit card has its advantages, though it comes at a price. The Chase Sapphire has no introductory APR, or annual percentage rate. The APR does come at a low 15.4%, which you should know is a low APR when you see other credit card APRs, and the APR is also variable – so remember that at some time in the future, this low APR…
Welcome to the roundup of articles in the blogosphere on Financial product reviews. The roundup brings you some additional products reviews, they are all from experienced bloggers and trustworthy. Betterment Review at Smart on Money, this was his conclusion “I loved Betterment before and signed up to use them, despite that I wasn’t 100% happy about their costs/fees. Now that they’ve lowered their fees drastically and made them super competitive, I really don’t have any major reservations about their service anymore. I can wholeheartedly recommend Betterment now, and I would recommend them to friends, family and anyone else as a…
The earliest version of Microsoft Money was way back in 1991, under the the Windows operating system version 3.0. Since then, 17 versions of the financial software have been made. Managing personal finances was easy with the use of graphical interfaces Microsoft products are known for, and the constant support from Microsoft brought users to Microsoft Money as a preferred tool for managing their investments, portfolios and expenses. However, last December 31, 2011, Microsoft officially ended supporting Microsoft Money. In the interim, Microsoft is encouraging all users of Microsoft Money to use Microsoft Money Plus Sunset, an application that can…
Bank of America Add It Up program is online shopping portal come rewards program. Participation in which is free and may generate cash back rewards on your regular day-to-day shopping. Who can enroll in Add It Up Membership in Add It Up requires you to have Bank of America credit or debit card, and have enrolled in online banking. Residents of Washington and Idaho cannot participate, Small Business credit card only customers can not participate. Some BOA cardholders are ineligible, including holders of other BOA-issued rewards cards like Upromise, TripRewards, etc. How to enroll in Add It Up You need…
