As virtually everyone knows, Apple has had a sweet run of late. This year alone its stock shot up nearly 50%, four times the gains notched by the S&P 500 index. But if you’re feeling miffed that you missed out on the stock of the decade, well, maybe you didn’t miss out after all.
Apple fans can be a little crazy in their devotion to anything with an “i” tacked onto the front of it, but a new survey shows just how far that cult-like following stretches: Nearly half of people who use Apple devices would be willing to trust the computer giant with their savings.
Prepaid debit card providers like to make the argument that their products can be used just like bank accounts, but there’s one major way in which prepaid debit differs from bank-issued cards tied to an account or line of credit: If you get scammed when using this popular prepaid product, you don’t have any legal protection or recourse to get your money back.
You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. In a video posted by security firm Zvelo, the program exposes the pin number of a Google Wallet account within seconds.
You’ve come a looong way from the dorm room, Mark Zuckerberg. Reuters recently reported that Facebook’s revenue has doubled to $1.6 billion in the first half of this fiscal year. I’m guessing Zuckerberg has forgotten about those instant noodles a long time ago.
Maybe it’s because the financial markets are currently having mild schizophrenic episodes, but the hedge fund that uses Twitter as a guide as to where to invest finished its first month of trading at the end of July, and it not only returned 1.85% in that time, but it also beat the S&P 500 during [...]
You know those “Promoted” items that appear in the list of trending topics on your Twitter home page? Ever wondered how much it might cost to buy one?
Twitter has reportedly bought TweetDeck for an estimated $40 million.
Sticking to its big-picture plan of organizing the world’s information, Google has recently rolled its various financial advice sites and features into a single site called Google Advisor.
The U.K.’s first cell phone contactless payment system went live today.
It seems that Visa, MasterCard and American Express are safe… FOR NOW!
