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Mouse Print* -- Target Fined $5-Mil for California Pricing Violations

This week's story is a must-read for shoppers and technology buffs. District Attorneys in California accused Target of manipulating the prices on its website to show one price when viewed at home, and another higher price sometimes when viewed in the store. That is our Mouse Print* story this week.

Crazy: Virtual Real Estate in Cyberspace Booming

The world has gone crazy. Entrepreneurs are creating imaginary neighborhoods in cyberspace (newly named the "metaverse") and are selling pieces of it as the Internet of the future is beginning to form. It will be a 3D imaginary world that you will view and travel through using special goggles. Companies are spending about $100-million a month to secure prime real estate in the best virtual neighborhoods. Somehow this is reminiscent of the "Star Registry" which sold to individual the naming rights to stars in the galaxy.

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That AirBnB Rental Could Be Fake

More and more fake listings are making their way into short term rental sites like AirBnB. And there are two victims: the person who paid money to a crook for a home they don't own, and the real homeowner who finds strangers at their door wanting to enter.

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