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JPMorgan sued over typo promising trader $3M salary

How much is a decimal point worth? Trader Kai Herbert plans to find out. Herbert brought suit against JPMorgan Chase & Co.

 

Thieves take advantage of e-mail typos

Thieves take advantage of e-mail typos

Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months.

 

Shoppers fume over Sears' $69 iPad ad mistake

Shoppers fume over Sears' $69 iPad ad mistake

A online Sears ad that mistakenly advertised the 16-gigabyte, Wi-Fi-only iPad 2 for $69 — and got shoppers' hopes up and orders placed — was retracted by the retail giant, which blamed a third-party seller of Apple's popular tablet for an advertising typo. That model iPad 2 is normally sold for $744.99 by the third-party seller, GSM On Sale.

 

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