Payday loans target those with no cash and other top stories.

• Payday loans target those with no cash

  

  A trap of payday loan fees has some consumers borrowing money again and again. Federal regulators want to stop lenders from making some payday loans and limit how often people can take out such loans.Some consumers deal with debt by going on a cash-only budget.(Photo: Susan Tompor)Maybe, it's time to admit that Dad did know best.After talking to both sides in the battle over payday lending rules, I cannot help but go back to my father's regulatory regime. Two words dictated his approach to manag..

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• McDonald''s May Move Headquarters To Oprah Winfrey''s Old Harpo Studios

  

  Shutterstock photo McDonald's May Move Headquarters To Oprah Winfrey's Old Harpo Studios (RTTNews.com) - Fast food chain McDonald's is in advanced talks to shift its headquarters to Oprah Winfrey's former Harpo Studios site, reports said. The Big Mac maker, which has been looking for a new home for sometime now, is in talks with developer Sterling Bay to create a 300,000 square foot campus in Chicago as its new headquarters, reports said. It is likely that the move will take place in 201..

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• American Airlines planes will get ViaSat's powerful WiFi

  

  American Airlines is equipping a fleet of Boeing 737 MAX planes with in-flight WiFi other than Gogo's. It has inked a deal with California-based company ViaSat, which also provides internet connection to some of Virgin America's newest A320 planes. ViaSat promises an "at home" experience by providing you with a (12 Mbps) connection strong enough to stream movies and music. It uses a high-capacity satellite system, and it's launching another satellite in 2019 to make its connection even faster. ..

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• Walmart hopes tech investments reverse 5 quarters of declining online sales growth

  

  (Reuters) — Walmart executives touted the technology investments the world’s No. 1 retailer is making to boost online sales, during the annual shareholder meeting on Friday. Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon spoke about initiatives like online grocery pick up, the retailer’s two-day shipping program and its mobile wallet, Walmart Pay. His comments capped off a week-long media event where the company displayed drones in warehouses and announced a partnership with Uber to deliver online groce..

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• Tony Fadell Defends His Record and Methods

  

  Tony Fadell brought the iPod to life at Apple Inc., ushered in the iPhone, started Nest Labs in 2010 to modernize home gadgets and sold to Google for $3.2 billion in 2014. Then he spent the last two years shaping Google’s vision of the connected future and pushing its wares deeper into consumers’ lives.After such a meteoric rise, Fadell’s exit from the internet giant was unceremonious. Google parent Alphabet Inc. released a short statement Friday afternoon saying he will step down immediately a..

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• Guardian: American Cities "Cheat" on Lead Testing of Tap Water

  The Guardian claims that "at least 33" large American cities use testing methods deliberately designed to undercount the presence of lead in tap water: Of these cities, 21 used the same water testing methods that prompted criminal charges against three government employees in Flint over their role in one of the worst public health disasters in US history. ....Testing methods that can avoid detecting lead include asking testers to run faucets before the test period, known as “pre-flushing”; to r..

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