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  • Colorado's mountain communities are trying to take advantage of fewer people flying. They're putting together incentives for Coloradans and others to visit before the summer ends.

    "One of the things that we are trying to do at Keystone is really embrace the summer months as well," Ryan Whaley with Keystone Resort said.

    The resorts aren't seeing the last days of summer as losers this year. They are offering huge discounts to keep people until the snow falls.

  • Imagine being paid to shop, dine out or see a movie. A local marketing research company is looking for consumers who want to earn a paycheck.

    Every month more than 150,000 stores, restaurants, theaters and banks are visited by paid shoppers to evaluate and report back to company headquarters. It's market research designed to help businesses track what they do well and what they do poorly.

  • A Minneapolis-based grocery chain admitted it overcharged customers at Colorado stores that catered to Hispanics.

    Attorneys for Nash Finch Co. said in a filing Friday in Adams County District Court that they were admitting liability in a lawsuit filed by six customers from its Avanza stores in Colorado. The case was going to trial Monday.

    Read more on cbs4denver.com.

  • Tom Shane would continue to own and run retail jewelry chain The Shane Co. under a reorganization plan filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Colorado, but he would repay unsecured creditors before paying back personal loans he made.

    Shane Co., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2009, submitted the reorganization plan Wednesday, significantly later than originally expected.

  • Netflix Inc. will pay nearly $1 billion during the next five years for the online streaming rights to movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM in a deal that could help Netflix attract even more subscribers.

  • The long-rumored geolocation "check-in" feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET.

    It's going to take the form of an application program interface (API) for third-party companies on the Facebook developer platform, integrating existing "check-in" start-ups more deeply into the massive social-networking service and in turn permitting location-aware data to become a part of existing platform applications.

  • Users of the iPhone can now download and watch TV shows on the device, AT&T announced Monday.

    Subscribers to U-verse, the communications company's digital television package, will be able to browse the service's TV guide, download shows via Wi-Fi and watch them anywhere, said David Christopher, chief marketing officer for AT&T Mobility.

  • Verizon and Google are saying that Internet service providers should be allowed to charge extra to route traffic from premium services over separate, dedicated networks. Yet they still believe in prohibiting those providers from slowing, blocking or charging to prioritize regular Internet traffic.

    Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. announced their vision Monday following reports they having been talking to find common ground on such issues.

  • The head of Target Corp. apologized Thursday over a political donation to a business group backing a conservative Republican for Minnesota governor, which angered some employees and sparked talk of a customer boycott.

    Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel wrote employees to say the discount retailer was "genuinely sorry" over the way a $150,000 contribution to MN Forward donation played out. Steinhafel said Target would set up a review process for future political donations.

  • Continued concerns over salmonella contamination have prompted Procter & Gamble to expand its previous recall to include some Iams and Eukanuba dry dog and cat foods.

    The Procter & Gamble said it's taking the action because the pet food has the “potential to be contaminated” with salmonella, a bacterium that can cause food poisoning.

    The company -- which makes Iams and Eukanuba products -- said it has not received any reports of illnesses linked to the recalled foods.