- Ditch your smartphone for a year, win $100,000Vitaminwater challenges smartphone addicts to abandon their devices for 365 unimaginable days. The reward? A cool $100K VitaminWater contest: Ditch your smartphone for a year, win $100,000 in cell phone challenge
- Why this purse costs more than the average houseThe Hermès Birkin bag is fashioned with 10 carats of diamonds and crafted from Nile River-sourced crocodiles
- Seafood sold in restaurants and stores often mislabeledMore than a quarter of the seafood sampled in a New York state probe was found to be misidentified
- Can you write bitcoin losses off your taxes?Yes. Cryptocurrency is property, as far as the IRS is concerned, which means when it loses value, there's a tax break
- Sears bankruptcy court OKs $25M in bonuses to top execsRetailer gets judge's approval to give key employees financial incentive to stick around as company hemorrhages cash
- New Facebook bug exposes millions of users' private photosSocial media giant says a security glitch may have let third-party apps access people's unshared images
- J&J hid findings of asbestos in baby powder: ReutersShares tumbled Friday after investigative report details company efforts to keep talc evidence from regulators, consumers
- Del Monte corn recall, and other MoneyWatch headlinesIn today's CBS MoneyWatch headlines, 15,000 students have their federal student debt canceled, streaming services made more shows than broadcast networks, and Del Monte recalls 64,000 cans of "under-processed" corn.
- GM has 2,700 new factory jobs for workers after allHiring news follows harsh criticism of automaker's shutdowns of sedan production, idling up to 14,000 workers
- CBS to donate $20M to women's groups after Moonves ousterTime's Up Legal Defense Fund and Time's Up Entertainment will receive $2 million of the funds
- Banned in Boston: Plastic bags at grocery storesJust in time for holiday food shopping season: City ordinance forbids big stores from offering plastic checkout bags
- The year's worst passwords: "Donald" joins listAn analysis of 5 million leaked passwords finds that computer users are still relying on easily guessed passwords
- Dow slides into correction territory amid economic worriesWeak economic numbers from China are raising concerns about headwinds for global growth
- Starbucks to deliver lattes and Frappuccinos as it battles a sales slowdownThe coffee chain, facing renewed competition from lower-cost rivals, is also planning to renovate stores
- China rolls back tariff hikes on $126 billion of U.S. autosThe 90-day suspension reflects a temporary ceasefire in a trade war between the two economic superpowers
- Millennials outearn earlier generations at the same ageYoung adults are doing better financially than any others over the past 50 years -- thank women
- Richard Branson prepares for private space tours after Virgin Galactic flightVirgin Galactic cleared a major milestone on Thursday by sending a spaceship from the Mojave desert to beyond Earth's atmosphere. The company is now on track to send private tourists into space. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans spoke with Richard Branson.
- Tariffs cast a shadow on U.S. solar industryIt says around $8 billion in utility-scale projects have been frozen or canceled, costing some 9,000 American jobs
- Waymo's self-driving cars have faced slashed tires, thrown rocksAutonomous vehicles in Arizona have been involved in incidents including slashed tires and thrown rocks
- Boy Scouts, facing sexual abuse suits, may declare bankruptcyOrganization considering "all options" as it grapples with declining membership and rising legal costs
