Payday borrowers can pay hundreds in bank fees: U.S. consumer agency

A sign for a payday lending shop is seen in London March 6, 2013. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett Online payday lenders often collect loan payments by automatically debiting bank accounts, which has put borrowers who cannot pay on the hook for almost $200 in fees and other penalties besides the costs of th...

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Detecting Fraud

Review your bank, credit card and financial statements regularly to identify unauthorized activity. This is one of the most effective ways to quickly detect if your bank account, credit card or identity has been compromised.

Baidu says completed around $155 million fundraising for new video business subsidiary

Baidu's company logo is seen at its headquarters in Beijing December 17, 2014. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon Baidu Inc has completed raising around 1 billion yuan ($154.69 million) for a new video business subsidiary, it said in a posting on its microblog on Wednesday. The subsidiary will comprise three Ba...

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Exclusive: Verizon set to make Yahoo's bidder short list - sources

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in this February 24, 2016 file photo. Reuters/Albert Gea/Files Verizon Communications Inc was set on Tuesday to advance to the second stage of bidding for Yahoo Inc's core assets, as the U.S. internet company went thr...

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Intel to cut 12,000 jobs globally, CFO to move to new role

A worker arranges an Intel logo at the CeBIT trade fair, the world's biggest computer and software fair, in Hannover in this March 13, 2016, file photo. Reuters/Nigel Treblin/Files Intel Corp said it would cut 12,000 jobs globally, or 11 percent of its workforce, as the company moves away from its t...

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Yahoo revenue falls slightly less than expected

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer delivers her keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada in this January 7, 2014, file photo. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/Files Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) posted first-quarter revenue that beat analysts' estimates slightly, but the 11.3 percent d...

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Canada's competition watchdog drops probe into Google

Google's new Canadian engineering headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario January 14, 2016. Reuters/Peter Power Canada's Competition Bureau said on Tuesday that it was dropping an investigation into Google after saying in 2013 that it suspected the company was abusing its dominant position in on...

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Apple, FBI return to Congress to spar over encryption

The logo of U.S. technology company Apple is seen in Zurich, Switzerland April 5, 2016. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann The growing use of strong default encryption on mobile devices and communications by criminal suspects is handicapping investigators' ability to pursue them, law enforcement officials told C...

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EU antitrust chief expected to charge Google on Wednesday: sources

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager looks on as she addresses a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, January 11, 2016. Reuters/Francois Lenoir Europe's antitrust chief is expected to hit Google on Wednesday with anti-competitive charges concerning its Android mobile phone operating...

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Starboard's Smith warns a full board sweep is not always possible

A Yahoo logo is pictured in front of a building in Rolle, 30 km (19 miles) east of Geneva, in this file picture taken December 12, 2012. Reuters/Denis Balibouse Activist investor Jeffrey Smith, whose Starboard Value hedge fund wants to replace the entire board at Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), said this approa...

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Apple updates MacBook with faster processors

A customer uses an iPhone and a Macbook computer at the Genius Bar in the Apple Store at Grand Central Station in New York April 20, 2015. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Apple Inc on Tuesday updated its 12-inch MacBook line of laptops with faster processors, Retina display, Force Touch trackpad and made i...

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EC to challenge French taxi law after Uber complaint

The logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone over a reserved lane for taxis in a street is seen in this photo illustration taken in Madrid on December 10, 2014. Reuters/Sergio Perez The European Commission is preparing to challenge a French law on taxi services and chauffeured cars, two ...

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Social Media Privacy Settings

Privacy settings on social networks have limited value. They are confusing to configure and change often. Ultimately, if you do not want your parents or boss reading it, do not post it.

Bill Gates says U.S. needs limits on covert email searches

Bill Gates said on Monday that no one was an “absolutist” on either side of the digital privacy debate, but the co-founder of Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said he supports his company’s lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking the freedom to tell customers when federal agencies have ...

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Blackberry CEO says tech firms should comply with lawful access requests

Blackberry CEO John Chen speaks to reporters following their annual general meeting for shareholders in Waterloo, June 23, 2015. Reuters/Mark Blinch Tech companies should comply with lawful requests to access protected data, BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen said on Monday, in thinly veiled criti...

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Netflix shares plunge as subscriber forecasts miss estimates

The Netflix logo is shown in this illustration photograph in Encinitas, California October 14, 2014. Reuters/Mike Blake Streaming video service Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) forecast its number of U.S. and international subscribers would grow at a slower pace than Wall Street expected this quarter, sending i...

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IBM's quarterly revenue falls 4.6 percent

People walk past an IBM logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 25, 2016. Reuters/Albert Gea International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) reported a 4.6 percent fall in quarterly revenue, hurt by a strong dollar and muted IT spending amid global economic uncertainty. Reven...

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YP Holdings plans first-round bid to merge with Yahoo: Bloomberg

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in this February 24, 2016 file photo. Reuters/Albert Gea/Files YP Holdings LLC, the digital advertising business of what was formerly called Yellowpages.com, is planning to submit a first-round bid on Monday to merge ...

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Silicon Valley veteran Bill Campbell has died: Re/code

Bill Campbell, chairman of the board and former chief executive of Intuit Inc., smiles as he moderates a fireside chat with Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 event at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse in San Francisco,... Reuters/Stephen Lam Sil...

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Amazon offers video streaming service as monthly subscription

An Amazon logo is seen on a worker's jacket at an Amazon Fulfilment Center in Wroclaw, Poland, in this file photograph dated December 3, 2015. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/files Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said it would offer its video streaming service as a monthly subscription as it looks to drive membership...

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