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The U.S. Open is in full swing, and ticket resellers are serving great deals—at least if you’re interested in catching players in early rounds before the competition really heats up.

Prices for the first rounds of the tournament, which began Monday and wraps up Sept. 12, are lower than last year’s. First-round tickets are currently going for $109, a 13% decrease, according to ticket-search site FanSnap.com. Even quarterfinals prices, at an average $247 per ticket, are 12% cheaper than in 2009.

Like other major sporting events, the U.S. Open is still recovering from consumers’ cutbacks during the recession. “Demand is starting to pick back up,” says Robert Tuchman, the executive vice president for Premiere Sports Travel, which creates sports travel packages. “If [

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Credit card security is always an issue when transacting over the internet. This new twist on an old standby has people up in arms in Austin, Texas. Credit card numbers from restaurant guests at a local downtown hotel were stolen when enterprising fraudsters hacked into the hotel’s accounting network.

The hotel has fixed the security breach but it is not known exactly how many victims there are but local law enforcements have estimated that up to 700 credit card numbers have been stolen. Numbers from the guests of the Driskill Hotel restaurant were stolen along with patrons who stayed at one of the approximately three dozen locations managed by Destination Hotels and Resorts, the parent company of Driskill Hotel. T

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Here’s an all-too common scenario. Consumer gets credit card. Consumer doesn’t properly monitor spending with credit card. Consumer falls into debt and trashes credit rating. Many people who have been through this process have sworn never to repeat their mistakes. And some are taking near-Draconian measures in the name of preserving their creditworthiness.

This segment of the marketplace is being courted by MasterCard’s inControl program. MasterCard is partnering with Citigroup to offer a credit card which enables users to stop themselves from getting into debt before they can actually do so.

The inControl program has been around since 2007, but has been used primarily with corporate cards and accounts. Howev

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