Confucius would be so disappointed in us. Fortune cookies, one of the last bastions of unadulterated good left in this world, are now just a vessel for selling you crap. A New York City-based ...

New York City firm OpenFortune brands the slips of paper inside each cookie. ... ad-tech company is off to make its fortune selling advertisements on the small paper slips inside fortune cookies.

Edward Louie, who invented the fortune-cookie machine, died Friday. He was 69. In the late 1960s, looking for a way to spare his family the ordeal of turning out thousands of cookies by hand each ...