Why Gap Will Never Be Great Again

Filed under: Company News, Retail

Gap (GPS) investors should be pretty stoked right now.

Shares of the company behind Old Navy, Banana Republic, and its namesake apparel chain have been on fire this year. Gap’s stock has climbed higher in five of the past six months, notching an impressive 47.5% gain through the first half of 2012.

It’s easy to fall into the trap — a Gap trap, if you will — of thinking that the former Wall Street darling is back. Gap was a big retail winner through the 1980s and 1990s, but things haven’t…

Why Gap Will Never Be Great Again originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-07-05T14:53:00Z.

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New McDonald’s CEO’s Grand Plan Involves a Lot of Chicken

Filed under: Company News, McDonald’s, Food & Drink

By Kim Bhasin

McDonald’s new CEO Don Thompson has some important decisions to make as he takes the reins of the world’s biggest fast food chain, and chicken is going to play a major role, reports Leslie Patton at Bloomberg Businessweek.

He’s going to be trying out chicken items from the company’s hefty 160-item recipe book, though no specifics have been revealed thus far.

Chicken items present a variety of benefits for a fast food chain like McDonald’s (MCD).

For instance, chicken items can…

New McDonald’s CEO’s Grand Plan Involves a Lot of Chicken originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-07-05T14:03:00Z.

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Budgeting, Guy Style: App Zaps Personal Finance’s Gender Gap

Filed under: Technology, Personal Finance

Adam Levey, a 23-year-old graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, is set to begin his stint as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va. New to life outside his parents’ financial purview, he’s learning how to budget his salary of just over $3,000 a month. He’s got major expenses — a car loan on a 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee and a career starter loan from the Naval Academy — plus twice-monthly trips to see his girlfriend in New Jersey, which cost $80 on gas alone.

Like many men his…

Budgeting, Guy Style: App Zaps Personal Finance’s Gender Gap originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-07-04T05:20:00Z.

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Need a Loan? Ask a Stranger: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending

Filed under: Credit, Banking, Personal Finance

Interest rates are at their lowest levels since 1971, but even people with excellent credit scores are finding it hard to obtain loans from banks more comfortable with lending to companies than to individuals. For a homeowner with an underwater mortgage, or a repentant over-spender struggling with a high APR, refinancing for lower interest can make a difference over the long term. But with banks still cautious, many people are looking elsewhere to make ends meet.

And for some of them, the…

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Motorola Atrix HD revealed with 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, ICS and Droid RAZR looks

The next Motorola Atrix phone has been revealed on the company’s website as the Atrix HD, with an MB886 model number matching “Dinara” we saw pass through the FCC. According to the listed specs, it features a 4.5-inch HD Colorboost (720 x 1,280) display, 1.5GHz dual-core CPU will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and (predictably) looks very much like the Droid RAZR. There’s no carrier mentioned (other than the blatant logo at the bottom), but judging by the radio bands mentioned in the specs it comes off very much as a Droid RAZR for AT&T with quad-band EDGE, quad-band HSPA+ and dual-band LTE. It has a 1780 mAh battery, 8MP rear camera, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage (up to 32GB external) and measures 8.4mm thick. The construction is as you would expect, with Gorilla Glass and Kevlar fused to make the “business ready” handset, while the Atrix 2’s Lapdock 100 is listed as an accessory. There’s no word on when the third Atrix will be launched, but you can find out all about it and sign up for updates right now at the source link.

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Sony patents exercise music system that adjusts music to your work-out tempo

While our bodies approach beach-readiness for the summer, Sony’s unveiled plans to tinker with your gym playlist in the future. According to a patent granted today, the electronics manufacturer aims to closely tie the tempo of your music to your own physical exertions. It’ll do this by using a nefarious-sounding (but ultimately vague) “exercise information analyzing circuit” that will pick up on tempo differences between the user and their favorite Pendulum tracks. It will then change the “music data” for something a little more fitting for your 10-minute trudge at 10 percent incline. The patent’s sketches include the idea of personalized profiles for users, and displaying what you got done at the end of the session, broken down by tempo and duration. The technology could end up in PMPs or phones, although we reckon the latter has more legs. Give your legalese its own workout and peruse the laborious wording of another patent filing at the source below

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Sony patents exercise music system that adjusts music to your work-out tempo originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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