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The "400+" employee lay-off that the author referenced was this one: http://timesfreepress.com/news/2013/aug/16/layoffs-hit-chatt...

There was a lot more to the lay-off than the company losing their primary income model

This happened in my hometown (Chattanooga, Tennessee).


wow. fta:

   Before New York regulators cut the businesses off from the automated 
   clearing house system in early August, the payday conglomerate made 
   short-term loans over the Internet that typically became due — with interest 
   — on the customer’s next payday. Different U.S. states have widely divergent 
   laws governing the interest rates that lenders are allowed to charge, and 
   Brown often ran afoul of these regulations.
   
   He has been sued in several states for making loans with interest rates well 
   above the legal limit, was the subject of a class-action lawsuit for sending 
   thousands of spam text messages and was investigated by federal authorities.
   
   Brown was forced to stop making loans in Tennessee following a series of 
   Times Free Press articles in 2011 and 2012 that showed he was making loans 
   with an interest rate in excess of what the state allowed, and was doing so 
   without a license.
I kind of just want to point and laugh; apparently karma does (slowly) come around.


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Works for me in Firefox 15.0.1 on Linux.


They may be a desperate company approaching bankruptcy, but they did own the trademark for the name long before Apple wanted to use it.


What does it take to own a trademark in China? What is the actual value of their trademark? Until I know that I'm more inclined to think they've won the lottery than built any value on the name iPad.


It's hard to read your post will all that FUD on it.


I received my Cr-48 Yesterday morning, and this site shows that one Cr-48 was overnighted to my area, but two more were shipped UPS Ground. I wonder why mine was overnighted?


You probably signed up on the short form during the window during and some set number of hours after the presentation. Right?


I applied by scanning a QR code during the presentation, before they said the actual URL.


i filled out the short form and it doesn't look like mine shipped yet.


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