All posts tagged: purchases

Apple Card Promo Doubles Daily Cash Back on Nike Purchases

Apple Card Promo Doubles Daily Cash Back on Nike Purchases

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Apple is teaming up with Nike for an Apple Card promotion that gives extra Daily Cash back. For the next month, ‌Apple Card‌ users can get 6% Daily Cash back when making a purchase with ‌Apple Card‌ using Apple Pay at a Nike retail store, the Nike website or Swoosh website, or Nike’s apps. The ‌Apple Card‌ normally offers 3% cash back on Nike purchases, so the bonus is doubled during the promotion period (June 15 to July 15). ‌Apple Card‌ holders can get the 6% Daily Cash back on up to $500 in purchases, for a total of $30 back. The deal is available to ‌Apple Card‌ owners, co-owners, and participants, so multiple family members can take advantage of the bonus offer. Most ‌Apple Pay‌ purchases provide 2% Daily Cash, but Apple has partnered with companies like Nike to increase that to 3%. Extra cash back is available when using ‌Apple Pay‌ and ‌Apple Card‌ for purchases at Ace Hardware, Apple retail stores, ChargePoint, Duane Reade, Hertz, Booking.com, Uber, and Walgreens. Popular Stories New …

Expert: Murrell may have been trying to heal psychological wound with purchases

Expert: Murrell may have been trying to heal psychological wound with purchases

Published by Sam Flores

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell will have rationalised his embezzlement of more than £400,000, acting on a possible internal pressure to have the “lavish lifestyle that he craved but could not afford” a criminologist suggested. Dr Nicola Harding said Murrell’s case was a “textbook white collar crime” involving someone in a “position of respectability”. But she said that Nicola Sturgeon’s ex-husband may have been “trying to fill a gap within himself” with his series of lavish purchases, which were paid for with party cash. Murrell with his then wife Nicola Sturgeon – who announced their separation in January 2025 Speaking the day after more details about how Murrell’s crimes were committed were revealed in court, the expert said: “What I know from the fraudsters, financial criminals I have worked with, is purchasing, what they try to gain out of it is not really about the items themselves, it is about how those items make them feel.” Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland’s Breakfast programme, Dr Harding said: “They are often coming from a place of …

Hold Off on Purchases, Students: Apple’s Back to School Sale Is Coming Soon

Hold Off on Purchases, Students: Apple’s Back to School Sale Is Coming Soon

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Apple has started preparing for its annual Back to School promotion in the U.S. and Canada, according to backend Apple code seen by MacRumors. Apple holds a Back to School sale each June, providing teachers and students with free accessories or gift cards when purchasing a Mac or an iPad. The added bonus is in addition to Apple’s educational discount. Back to School sales typically start around the middle of the month, but we don’t yet know the start dates for this year’s sale. The sale continues through the end of September, so students do not need to rush to prepare to return to school. Apple’s Back to School promotions have varied. Last year, Apple offered eligible students, educators, and parents accessories worth up to $199 when purchasing a Mac or an ‌iPad‌. Free options included the AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, Apple Pencil Pro, and more. Looking back at Apple’s past Back to School dates gives us an idea of when this year’s sale …

Samsung’s 2026 Monitors Launch With Discounts and Credit Towards Future Purchases

Samsung’s 2026 Monitors Launch With $50 Discounts and Credit Towards Future Purchases

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Samsung’s newest monitors are now available to purchase this week, including the Odyssey G8, ViewFinity S8, and Movingstyle Essential. All of these are available with a $50 launch discount, plus your choice of extras including up to $300 in Samsung credit on a future purchase, a free Music Studio speaker, or free Galaxy Buds4 Pro. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Samsung. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Starting with the Samsung Odyssey G8 monitors, you will find $50 discounts across every model of the new 2026 devices. Prices start at $899.99 for the 27-inch Odyssey G8 5K Monitor, and also include Samsung’s first 6K monitor with the 32-inch Odyssey G8 5K Monitor for $1,549.99. Samsung also has a new 40-inch ViewFinity S8 Curved Monitor on sale for $1,349.99 for launch week, as well as the Movingstyle Essential Monitor for $849.99, both $50 discounts. Additionally, the company announced a 27-inch model of the ViewFinity S8, but it’s not …

Employees Of The Ultra-Wealthy Share The 5 Most Out-Of-Touch Purchases They’ve Witnessed

Employees Of The Ultra-Wealthy Share The 5 Most Out-Of-Touch Purchases They’ve Witnessed

Published by Jenni Sidey

For those of us living average lives with average incomes, it’s easy to think that super rich people are like an anomaly, and not that many of them exist. America’s top 1% is actually made up of an estimated 1.6 million households, though. That means many of us have had the chance to interact with very wealthy people, even if we didn’t realize it at the time. One Reddit user asked those who worked with “ultra-wealthy” people what “out-of-touch” purchases they had seen them make, and the answers were mind-boggling for all the regular Joes out there. Employees of the ‘ultra-wealthy’ witness some really out-of-touch behavior, but these 5 purchases take the cake: 1. A terrarium penthouse Rafael Aguiar | Pexels Technically, this report came from a man who dated a rich man’s granddaughter, not from someone who actually worked for him, but it’s outrageous all the same. The grandfather lived in a luxury apartment, but that wasn’t enough for him. He also purchased the penthouse above him to use as a “terrarium type of …

Italy Purchases Rare Caravaggio Portrait for .7 M.

Italy Purchases Rare Caravaggio Portrait for $34.7 M.

Published by Jenni Sidey

Italy has purchased a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million ($34.7 million), one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a work of art, according to the country’s culture ministry. The painting, depicting the cleric Monsignor Maffeo Barberini—who would later ascend as Pope Urban VIII—was described as being of “exceptional importance,” Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said in a statement. The portrait had been kept in a private collection in Florence and was first shown publicly in 2004 in Rome. Following its purchase by the Italian state, it was transferred to the permanent collection of the Palazzo Barberini, the historic residence of the Barberini family, where it will be exhibited alongside other works by Caravaggio. Related Articles The master Baroque artist painted Barberini around 1598. The composition anticipates his eventual rise to power: draped in a resplendent green cleric’s cloak, his right hand is outstretched, casually issuing orders to an unseen figure outside the frame. He was elected pope in 1623 and served until he died in 1644, leaving a legacy of …

8 ‘Normal’ Purchases Middle-Class People Justify — Even When They’re Wasting Money

8 ‘Normal’ Purchases Middle-Class People Justify — Even When They’re Wasting Money

Published by Jenni Sidey

Growing up, I’ve seen people around me obsessed with things that made no sense to me. Like cricket tickets, for example. It’s a guy hitting a ball with a stick and a bunch of grown men running around chasing it. Plus, you can barely see the action taking place if you’re not in the first few rows of the stadium.  You’d have a 10x better view of everything that’s going on watching it at home, on your TV set. Not to mention the privacy of your home, comfort of your couch, and reasonably priced concessions of your choice. A lot of the purchases I’ve seen people make, especially people my age, just feel like I’m watching them throw money away. Anyway, this list isn’t going to be about sports cars and luxury items; that would be too obvious. Most of us can already agree that they are a complete waste of money. Instead, I’m going to go through the ‘normal’ purchases middle-class people justify, even when they’re wasting money.  Here are the 8 ‘normal’ purchases …

U.S., Taiwan finalize deal to cut tariffs, boost purchases of U.S. goods

U.S., Taiwan finalize deal to cut tariffs, boost purchases of U.S. goods

Published by Sam Flores

The city skyline is seen with the landmark Taipei 101 building from a lookout point on Elephant Mountain in Taipei on April 14, 2025. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng / AFP) (Photo by I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty Images) I-hwa Cheng | Afp | Getty Images Trump administration officials signed a final reciprocal trade agreement that confirmed a 15% U.S. tariff rate for imports from Taiwan, while committing Taiwan to a schedule for eliminating or lowering tariffs on nearly all U.S. goods. The document released by the U.S. Trade Representative’s office on Thursday also commits Taiwan to significantly boost purchases of U.S. goods from 2025 through 2029, including $44.4 billion of liquefied natural gas and crude oil, $15.2 billion of civil aircraft and engines, $25.2 billion of power grid equipment and generators, marine and steelmaking equipment. The agreement adds technical language and specific details to a trade framework deal first reached in January that cut tariffs on Taiwanese goods, including from its powerhouse semiconductor industries, to 15% from the 20% initially imposed by Trump. That puts Taiwan on an equal footing with its closest Asian export competitors, …

UOB extends gold counter hours, moves to appointment-only purchases amid surge in demand

UOB extends gold counter hours, moves to appointment-only purchases amid surge in demand

Published by Sam Flores

SINGAPORE: UOB customers who wish to buy gold or convert their holdings into physical gold at the bank’s main branch at Raffles Place will have to do so by appointment only from Feb 13. Amid a recent surge in demand, UOB will also extend the operating hours at the gold counters by one-and-a-half hours. From Feb 13, gold counters for purchasing bullion will open from 9.30am to 6pm on weekdays (excluding public holidays), instead of closing at 4.30pm.  Walk-in gold purchases or conversions will no longer be accepted. “With this measure, wait times should be reduced and customers can be served at the timing of their reservation,” UOB said in a media statement on Monday (Feb 9), adding that appointments can be made on its website from 6pm on Feb 12. “For customers who wish to sell gold back to us, they will still be able to do so at the gold counters without making an appointment from 9.30am to 4.30pm, Mondays to Fridays, excluding public holidays,” UOB said. UOB is Singapore’s only bank offering …