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PayPal is Sending Out Data Breach Notifications to Thousands of Users!
Data breaches are, somewhat unfortunately, a relatively common thing now in the online world. When it comes to something like PayPal, however, this clearly raises alarm bells as it not only involves people’s money but also what is arguably one of the most convenient payment methods around. If you are,…
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Economists Find Investing in Lego Could Earn you More Than Gold!
Presuming you have more money than you really know what to do with (which I sadly don’t), it’s generally never bad advice to try and find something you can invest in. For most though, this generally tends to revolve around either stocks, precious metals, or in more recent years, perhaps…
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Criticism Grows As Microsoft Adds ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Options to Edge Browser
Having credit can be an amazingly useful tool. Particularly so when an unexpected bill comes along that you don’t quite have the finances to immediately cover. It should be noted though that credit can also be an exceptionally dangerous thing. Granting the illusion of free money, and the freedom to…
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Family Recovers the $20k Their Kid Donated on Twitch
Around three weeks ago, a story came to our attention that would be enough to send a shiver down the spine of any parent whose kids are allowed to access the internet. What was it? Well, to their horror, one family found that their son had just blown just under…
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Research Firm Predicts Market Wide Cryptocurrency Implosion!
Research Firm Predicts Market Wide Cryptocurrency Crash Around this time last year, the cryptocurrency markets starting making some pretty big moves. With prices (particularly Bitcoin) starting to shoot up in value, loads of people jumped aboard the Bitcoin mining bandwagon in the hopes of getting rich quick. Of course, the…
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Amazon Reportedly Investigating Starting A Banking Business
Amazon Looking Into Bank When it comes to online retailers, I think it’s pretty safe to say that Amazon is the biggest by a country mile. Over recent years though the company has been keen to diversify its brand, as all good businesses should. As such it has opened a…
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US ‘Ask’ Cryptocurrency Exchanges To Agree To Regulation
Cryptocurrency Regulation Whether we like it or not, governments seem pretty keen to get cryptocurrencies regulated. Most major governments have already made it clear that they want no part of it unless such companies fall under the same financial regulation as loan, investment companies or banks. In an unusual step…
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Fresh Rumours Emerge of AMD Takeover
AMD Takeover Usually, at least once a year, there are rumors over a planned takeover at AMD. These rumors generally tend to circulate for a while, gather speculation and then die off as they quite rightly often deserve. It’s not that I don’t think there aren’t companies who would love…
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How Rapper 50 Cent Became an Accidental Bitcoin Millionaire
Rapper 50 cent is a very successful businessman with many projects outside of the music business. At one time Forbes estimated his net worth to be around $155 million. 50 Cent whose real name is Curtis Jackson also has made inroads and success as a movie/television producer. In fact he…
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Bitcoin Conference Admits Fault With Currency For Ticket Purchase Policy
Bitcoin Conference Would you like to travel to around 1 year ago and tell yourself to invest in Bitcoin? I know I would. Given the way, the crypto-currency has exploded in the last 12 months, it’s no surprise that a conference is being arranged in North American with the sole intention to celebrate…
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Bitcoin Value Plummets By Nearly a Third In Less Than A Week
Bitcoin Value Drops By Nearly a Third Bitcoin has in the last year made some people very rich indeed. From those who invested a couple hundred pounds in it even a year ago, they are currently sitting a lot prettier now. However, they were sitting much prettier just a week ago.…
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Bitcoin Value Increases By Nearly $3,000 in Just 24 Hours
The Bitcoin value increased by nearly $3,000 in just 24 hours as a coin is now worth just under $15,000 There are many things in life I feel I’ve missed out on. Going to university, sleep, at least a few buses. One of which I think is certain, however, is…
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Researchers Find Poor Coding Leaves Banks Vulnerable to Hacking
Researchers find that sloppy coding in the finance sector leaves 1.3 million weaknesses Just how safe is your money? It depends on where you keep it I suppose. If it’s under your mattress then that’s very traditional of you, but not very safe. If you keep it in a tin…
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Avast in Preparation for UK’s Largest Technology Stock Market Flotation
Avast Preparing for Stock Market Flotation – Represents the UK’s Potentially Largest Ever IPO Avast is a highly popular program and is found on many home and business computers. Providing excellent anti-virus protection it is often peoples first choice for anti-virus. The fact that the product is available for free…
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Fingopay Means that Paying Bills is at the Tip of Your Fingers, Literally!
I’ll have a Nvidia 1080ti and put it on my finger! Financial transactions are becoming a lot trickier in this 21st-century world. With the vast majority of transactions being electronically rather than with physical money, people are trying to find better and more secure means of getting this done. With…
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