Suitability may be all-important in investing, but the concept can be lost on children, who probably have little to no interest in what stocks are or how to invest, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. “Let’s be honest. You couldn’t explain to a kid what a stock is to save his or her life,” the “Mad Money” […]
Read moreAhead of next Tuesday’s widely awaited Apple iPhone launch, some worry the announcement from the world’s largest company could take the wind out of the market’s sails. “If the demo disappoints … if there really isn’t any great, sexy new application the market gets excited about, there is a very strong potential here that Apple […]
Read moreFemale employees are paid less than male staff members at most job levels within Google, and the pay disparity extends as women climb the corporate ladder, according to data compiled by employees that provide a snapshot of salary information at the internet giant. A spreadsheet, obtained by The New York Times, contains salary and bonus […]
Read moreNASA is leveraging its fleet of domestic and international satellites orbiting in space to help track the current lineup of hurricanes gathering steam and heading towards the United States. The satellites are tracking rainfall, wind speeds, temperatures (as in the image embedded above) and position. The images are staggering both because of the technology required […]
Read moreEquifax had a warm message for its Twitter followers this morning. The official @AskEquifax Twitter account published a tweet wishing everyone a “Happy Friday!” It would have been nice and probably ignored by almost everyone, except it came a day after Equifax admitted a data breach affecting as many as 143 million Americans. Most folks […]
Read moreApple has sought to stop Western Digital from taking control of Toshiba chip business by threatening not to buy its products in the future, people with knowledge of the deal said. Apple, which uses Toshiba’s NAND flash memory chips in its iPhones, is concerned about losing pricing power if Western Digital is running the operation, […]
Read moreHoward Marks reassessed his thoughts on bitcoin after starkly warning his clients against the high-flying digital currency in July. The co-chairman of Oaktree Capital is famous for his prescient investment memos, which predicted the financial crisis and the dotcom bubble implosion. “There has been particularly spirited response to my comments on digital currencies,” Marks wrote […]
Read morePeople who are worried about whether their personal information was compromised in the Equifax data breach may be in for another unpleasant surprise: being forced to settle claims against the credit reporting company in arbitration instead of joining forces with other wronged consumers to sue in court. Equifax is allowing people to sign up on […]
Read moreThe executive responsible for security at Equifax, which on Thursday disclosed a security breach affecting up to 143 million U.S. consumers, earned almost $2.8 million in compensation last year. John J. Kelley III has served as Equifax’s corporate vice president and chief legal officer since early 2013. According to the company’s annual proxy statement, Kelley […]
Read moreBillionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson survived Hurricane Irma barreling over his private islands by hunkering down in his wine cellar. “All of the team who stayed on Necker and Moskito during the hurricane are safe and well. We took shelter from the strongest hurricane ever inside the concrete cellar on Necker and very, very fortunately it […]
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