If you don’t show up on a Google search, do you really exist? As lines continue to blur between cyberculture and “the real world, ” the answer, in all too many situations, is “no.” And what that search reveals can make – or break – lives on many levels. Whether you’re...
Last year foreign investment in US real estate topped $7 billion in single family home purchases alone. As a new report by CNBC reveals, four of the top five cities for global real state investment were in the United States, investors from countries around the world...
It’s the kind of publicity Bank of America doesn’t need right now: a German –born intern at one of the bank’s London branches died after a long stretch of workdays without a break. So BofA, like other scandal-plagued US megabanks – is mounting new efforts to clean up...
You’d think that it’s a good thing to have all the information you could possibly need available anytime, anyplace. But it’s all too possible to become so caught up in trying to learn everything you need to know about a subject – such as investing – that you never...
What holds the data on your credit or debit card? If you’re a US cardholder, most likely it’s a magnetic strip. But as Target’s massive Black Friday data hack points up, that technology, which is largely obsolete in many parts of the world, is what puts US consumers...
