Giant teddy bears, roses, chocolates in heart-shaped boxes – all cute trinkets, sure. But does anyone really need those things? With the world’s landfills overflowing with one-time-use “stuff,” more Americans are making a conscious effort to reduce their consumption of unnecessary items. And while gifts wrapped in red heart paper are one way to say, […]
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Device Pitstop of Maple Grove now offers Apple iPhone back glass replacement. Some local repair shops chip the glass off the back back, which is a primitive method that can further damage the iPhone. Device Pitstop using cutting edge technology to repair iPhone back glass. We use a laser machine to separate the back glass […]
Making a “New-To-You” Resolution One of the biggest news stories of 2019 was that recycling is no longer the panacea Americans believed it to be. Much of what is put into our recycling bins is no longer being recycled, but is instead piling up in landfills. With the new year upon us, it’s time to […]
Device Pitstop’s Brad Swenson was honored to participate in the 3rd year of the Maranatha Christian Academy (MCA) Entrepreneurship Competition or better known as the “Shark Tank Event”. This year’s teams included the following: Water Fighter, Insta-Order, Cafe4U, Grid-Iron, Quick Lacing Boots, On-Time, Rise, Alpha-Fits and Alarm4U. The judges selected Grid-Iron as the winner […]
It was fast, it was powerful, its security was robust and now it’s time to say goodbye: Windows 7 will officially reach the end of its life in January 2020. And while “mainstream” support for the operating system officially ended in 2015, many thousands of people (especially Windows 7 Pro users) still utilize it on […]
In 2017, the most recent year for which data is available, there were more than 34,000 fatal vehicle crashes in the United States, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Nearly 3,000 of those could be directly tied to distracted drivers and, of those 3,000, at least 14 percent of those fatal crashes […]
Device Pitstop’s Mascot Drove in the 2019 Rockin Rogers Parade. It was a beautiful sunny day with 1,000s of local parade-goers. Great job once again Rogers Lions for all of your great work!
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College debt is skyrocketing, but students can control other college costs
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Minneapolis, MN, JUNE 17, 2019 – The total amount of student loan debt, as of the end of 2018, was $1.47 trillion with more than 44 million Americans with student loan debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York If college is in your immediate future, there isn’t much to be done about […]
Device Pitstop of Maple Grove and nonprofit Cell Phones For Soldiers are asking Maple Grove residents to help troops call home by donating gently-used cellular phones. Although the military landscape is ever changing, as many as 200,000 troops are serving in the United States military overseas around the world. By donating to Cell Phones For […]