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Plastic Jungle, a gift card exchange site, said it’s no longer buying or selling gift cards on its website.

Several gift card exchange websites have popped up that connect people who don’t want their gift cards with people who do.

Here are six ways to make the gift of money from Grandma and Grandpa more memorable.

Starbucks is moving into the luxury coffee market with upscale offerings.

Consumers are getting more value out of their gift cards but continue to lack fraud protection, according to a new report.

Citi and American Express are debuting two new products that will help with your Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanza shopping.

The CFPB considers whether unclaimed property laws in two states are in conflict with federal law on gift card expiration.

Is it possible that gift cards could become extinct in the Garden State? Perhaps, as a looming state law chases away gift card providers. American Express last week pulled its gift cards from New Jersey drugstores, supermarkets and convenience stores instead of trying to comply with a law that requires retailers to collect the ZIP

U.S. Bank introduced a program with Plastic Jungle that allows certain credit cardholders to exchange gift cards for rewards points.

Got some unused gift cards left over from the holidays, but don’t think you’ll use them? (About 5 percent to 7 percent of gift cards go unredeemed every year, according to Plastic Jungle.) Now you can turn them into airline miles. United Continental on Monday unveiled its MileagePlus Gift Card Exhange that allows memebers of the