Before the Cards agreed to a new deal with Larry Fitzgerald, there were rumblings that the Eagles' front office contacted Arizona to inquire about his availability.
Higher One, a big marketer of student debit cards, agreed to repay $11 million to 60,000 students to settle allegations that it had charged excessive fees to students who overdrew their accounts, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said.
The Topps Company, the maker of Bazooka bubble gum and collectible trading cards, agreed to acquire the closely held WizKids, which sells games like Mage Knight, HeroClix and MechWarrior, for about $29.5 million.
A Web company that sent unsolicited e-mail messages to consumers telling them they were approved and guaranteed to receive major unsecured credit cards agreed to pay $815,000 in consumer redress to settle federal charges, the Federal Trade Commission said.
Shailesh Mehta, chief executive of Providian Financial, which has already issued more than a million Visa smart cards, agrees that it is not clear whether any of these applications will take off.
Providian Financial, the nation's seventh-largest issuer of credit cards, agreed to a demand from bank regulators to reimburse its customers at least $300 million for misleading and improperly billing them.
But, finally, there's this: On Wednesday, Capital One, the big purveyor of credit cards, agreed to pay $210 million — including reimbursing customers to the tune of $150 million — because one of its vendors had deceptively marketed and sold customers needless add-on products.
Wal-Mart acknowledges that it summoned employees around the country to warn them about the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow unions to organize companies if more than half the workers signed cards agreeing to join, dispensing with the need for a secret ballot.
Bank One, the largest issuer of Visa cards, agreed to reform its relationship with third-party vendors who solicit the bank's credit-card holders.
GiftCards.com, a Pittsburgh-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco startup Giftly to grow out a mobile platform.
