What Do Hotel Stars Actually Mean?
Dmitry Kalinovsky/Shutterstock Tonight, I’m staying in a 400-year-old Spanish castle that’s been converted into a hotel. Luxurious, right? Well here’s the thing: it’s a two-star hotel....
Truecaller pushes software fix after covertly signing up Indians to its payments service
Truecaller, a service that helps users screen robocalls, has rolled out an update to its app in India, its largest market, after a previous software release...
File-hoster ‘Instaudio’ Announces Shutdown Citing Legal Pressure
In the spring of 2013, more than six years ago, a new niche hosting service called Instaudio saw the light. The site, operated by an anonymous...
China’s Vivo is eyeing smartphone users in Africa and Middle East
Africa’s mobile phone industry has in recent times been dominated by Transsion, a Shenzhen-based company that is little known outside the African continent and is gearing...
Why this Nigerian fintech startup is volunteering audited financials
Nigerian fintech firm Carbon — an early stage financial services startup based in Lagos — has posted financials audited by KPMG on its website. This comes...
Mobile messaging financial advisory service, Stackin, adds banking features and raises cash
When Stackin initially pitched itself as part of Techstars Los Angeles accelerator program two years ago, the company was a video platform for financial advice targeting...
Geek Trivia: Unlike Water, You Cannot Sink In?
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A Hacker Stole Capital One Data on 106 Million Customers, and the FBI Says She Tweeted About It
A hacker swiped credit card applications, Social Security numbers, and bank account information affecting more than 100 million people from Capital One’s server, the bank announced...
Hacker Claims to Be in Possession of Personal Info on Up to 20,000 LAPD Applicants
The Los Angeles Police Department has warned that a hacker is claiming to be in possession of the personal information of roughly 2,500 “officers, trainees, and...
Rich People Now Just Signing Over Custody of Their Kids to Score Financial Aid, Apparently
As if one major college-related scandal weren’t enough in a year, there comes this news: wealthy parents in Illinois are reportedly scamming financial aid for their...
