Care if you want coverage to start january 1st, but be aware, the white house says anyone who is logged in by today and doesnt get help can sign up tomorrow. A federal judge denied utahs request to block samesex marriages in the state as an appeal is underway. A ruling on friday lifted a ban on gay marriages therement. A water main break left thousands without water today in philadelphia. They have restored water to thousands of homes and businesses. Those are the headlines at this hour. Im tony harris. Real money with ali velshi is next. Dont give up now. There are last mief minute bargains everyone and the Competition Among retailers tonight is making history. Plus, a crucial survey for the university of michigan shows a key driver is ratcheting into high gear. If you have a product idea but dont know how to build or sell it, theres a new company that wants to help and they partnered with a huge american manufacturer. Im David Schuster in for ali velshi, and this is real money. This
This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show. Join our live conversation for the next half hour on twitt twitter ajrealmoney and facebook. Com ajrealmoney. Its down to the wire with more than a third of the shoppers this weekend still finishing up the christmas purchases. According to surveys out of that group of shoppers on the hunt, more than a quarter are Still Holding out for lastminute bargains between today and tomorrow when Christmas Eve starts. Thats smart, because analysts say 2013 is shaping up to be the most competitive season for retailers since the recession. For shoppers that means lots of discount promotions are available as the holiday approaches. For retailers, though, all that price slashing did not prevent a dropoff in shoppers in the final weekend. Store visits on friday and saturday, two of the most important shopping days of season, dropped by an estimated 7 compared to the same time last year. Thats according to retail next, an an will thet
hi there, everyone. i m jj ramberg and welcome to your business. the show dedicated to giving you add vice to help your business grow and succeed. his team calls him the world s least important ceo. but do not let that label fool you. ben kaufmann is disrupting not only how the world makes new products but how yo cultivate an innovative culture to fit the company s name corky. it s thursday night in new york city, and ben kaufmann the dynamic 28-year-old ceo of quirky invited me to be a panelist of the company s weekly ritual called e-val. you are watching the evaluation. special guest panelist tonight is jj ramberg, give it up for jj ramberg. quirky describes itself as a company that makes invention accessible. every week the employees sift through thousands of product ideas submitted by the company s community. they then select the best ones to bring to eval to see if a new concept has merit. if it makes it to eval the idea goes to the quirky community for a vote. the