Reading Time: 2 minutes With $10000 as spending limit. The prerequisite: iPhone 6, 6+, 6s, 6s+; iOS 9; in store purchase, no giftcard. Stores support Apple Pay Here in St. Louis, Schnucks, Dierbergs, WalGreens, St. Louis Bread Co. (Panera Bread) all supports Apple Pay. Though on Sept. 17 I tried at Schnucks counter, it failed, note this is the
Reading Time: < 1 minute Did not get much sleep last night, as I had to go to airport to pick up my in-laws at 2 am. This morning, after drop off my daughter and I was trying to change lane to get to Panera Bread, the car behind me was not happy, and honked. I honked in revenge. Not
Reading Time: < 1 minute Turbo Tax Federal discount It’s tax season again. Here is the Turbo Tax Federal discount available to me. In most cases I think it will also work for others 🙂 Bank of America: 35% off link Citicards: 35% off link Scottrade: 30% off Vanguard (regular customers): 25% off Weekend review Signed up the 360iDev iPhone
Reading Time: 3 minutes IT and Software Employers introduction 圣村码工和挨踢主要雇主介绍 Hidden Treasures in STL City Museum Diebergs launched rewards too (probably year 2022?) I don’t shop there too often though. Schnucks rewards (Oct-14-2018) Schnucks started a reward program, about 2% cashback. The only thing needed is to install it’s mobile app from the app stores. One can put in
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mobile broadband (3G) is getting popular these days, but for most people (esp. consumers) that’s still a bit too expensive. At this time I think the good old Wifi is more suitable for me and many working from home (Starbucks, Panera Bread, Borders, Barnes Noble, or McDonald) type. I used to use Free Wifi at
Reading Time: 2 minutes It seems to me the panic selling in the stock market never ends. I can think of the following sources of sellers: 1) Hedge fund. Yesterday Congress has an testimony on Hedge Fund, and five famous Hedge Fund managers were there. Hedge fund industry has grown rapidly in last 10 years. Besides wealthy clients, they
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tech for Silicon valley and agriculture for St. Louis. Silicon Valley Stocks We went to Sillicon valley for the holidays and obviously, stock is one common topic in family reunion and friends gathering. Note stock options makes up a significant portion of employee’s compensations for some of the technology companies there. I happened to read
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update) I also listened into its conference call, and it confirmed some of my thought: Chinese domestic market becomes more friendly; south America has strongest international growth, while NA has the slowest. (Original) I went to Panera bread this morning. Here is what I saw: Bagel, 89 cents; coffee, $1.59 to $1.79. These prices haven’t
Reading Time: < 1 minute The local temperature is 29 to 38 Celsius, or 84.2 to 100.4 Farenheit. Stock market: Shanghai composites is edging up to new high (at 4398.79 as of 10:25 AM July 30 local time). I will talk about the craziness of “Crocs” in Shanghai later, and Sheng Jian Bao place. I think I will miss a
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bill Gates got Harvard degree finally, 30 years after drop out from Harvard; Dell announced to sell laptop at Sam’s Club (Major’s comment: too little, too late); Andy Xie, former chief economist of Morgan Stanley Asia, says the odds of making money in Chinese stock market is lower than casinos (40% vs. 48%);
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