http://goodfinanceday.com Financial blog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:51:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let the smartphone smackdown begin.In the blue corner, wearing black, weighing in at 4.8 ounces, the 31-month champion of the touch screen phones: Apple's iPhone!In the red corner is the challenger, appearing on every carrier, a new entrant to the heavy-weight battle: Google's Android!It doesn't take Michael Buffer's ... http://goodfinanceday.com/google-vs-apple-an-epic-battle/ Toyota's U.S. arm is again looking to 0% financing to pull it out of a sales slump. The last time Toyota rolled out a nationwide incentive plan like this was in late 2008, as the entire U.S. auto industry was getting crushed by tight credit and a collapsing ... http://goodfinanceday.com/toyota-hopes-0-financing-will-lure-customers/ AIG reported a substantial fourth-quarter loss Friday, largely due to costs associated with selling off large stakes in its insurance businesses to reduce the debt it owes to taxpayers.The insurance giant said it lost $8.9 billion, or $65.51 per share, during the three-month period ended Dec. 31. A ... http://goodfinanceday.com/aig-posts-9-billion-loss/ Tuition at many public colleges and universities is skyrocketing, thanks to state budget deficits that have choked off funding for higher education. The University of California, for instance, estimates a 30% increase in the 2010-2011 year. "California's $20 billion deficit will make it hard for the [state's] legislature ... http://goodfinanceday.com/public-college-tuitions-spike-15-even-30/ In the old days, it used to mean something when a person made a long-distance call. It meant they were paying through the nose for it. That was before federal telecommunication reforms in the past two decades changed the way companies charged one another for carrying calls across ... http://goodfinanceday.com/missouri-phone-companies-called-into-question/ Arizona’s Medicaid program is getting nearly $45 million in financial relief from the federal government. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System is getting a $45 million break on what it pays to the federal government to offset the ... http://goodfinanceday.com/ahcccs-getting-45-million-breather/ The real estate roller-coaster ride continued last year as the median price of U.S. single-family home plunged 11.9% to $173,200.The housing situation had been looking up earlier in the year, with prices gaining ground in the first nine months. But the increases weren't enough to push the median ... http://goodfinanceday.com/home-prices-fell-12-in-2009/ Colorado tax revenues for the first month of 2010 looked a lot like the revenues from much of 2009, showing a year-over-year decrease once again. Total tax revenue for the state fell by 2.2 percent from January 2009 to January 2010, according to figures released Thursday by the Colorado ... http://goodfinanceday.com/colorado-tax-revenue-slides-22-in-january/ Asia is “relatively risk free” from contagion amid deteriorating confidence in Europe’s sovereign debt because its economies have stronger fiscal positions, CIMB Investment Bank Bhd. said. Asian governments mainly use domestic markets to fund their deficits and debt levels are still manageable and within sustainable limits, CIMB ... http://goodfinanceday.com/asia-relatively-free-from-sovereign-risk-cimb-says/ India can gradually start raising interest rates as Asia’s third-largest economy is among the first to recover after the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund said. “The conditions are ripe for a progressive normalization of the monetary stance,” the IMF said in a report on its ... http://goodfinanceday.com/imf-says-india-can-raise-rates-gradually-as-%e2%80%98conditions-ripe%e2%80%99/