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Google Maps tracks everywhere you go. Here's how to automatically delete what it stores

Google Maps tracks everywhere you go. Here's how to automatically delete what it stores

Google Maps tracks everywhere you go. Here's how to automatically delete what it stores

Google Maps tracks everywhere you go. Here's how to automatically delete what it stores

Google Maps tracks everywhere you go. There’s a tool that lets you automatically delete your location data from Google’s servers after a preset amount of time. This prevents Google from automatically logging years of your location data o...

Digital bank Chime quadruples valuation in less than a year to $5.8 billion as it takes on megabanks

Digital bank Chime quadruples valuation in less than a year to $5.8 billion as it takes on megabanks

Chime, valued at $1.5 billion in March, is now pegged at $5.8 billion just nine months later, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The leading U.S. digital bank raised a record $500 million in a Series E, showing that massiv...

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman joins Google

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman joins Google

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of British artificial-intelligence firm DeepMind, has announced that he is joining Google.

Crackdown on unruly airline passengers begins next month following rule change

Crackdown on unruly airline passengers begins next month following rule change

Crackdown on unruly airline passengers begins next month following rule change

Crackdown on unruly airline passengers begins next month following rule change

Crackdown on unruly airline passengers begins next month following rule change

An amendment to a global treaty will soon make it easier for countries to prosecute passengers who cause disruptions, delays or threaten safety. It follows an amendment to a 1963 agreement that caused confusion over who has jurisdiction ...

Anatomy of a Bribe

Anatomy of a Bribe

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit secretly films officials in Namibia demanding cash in exchange for political favours. It’s a story of how foreign companies plunder Africa’s natural resources. Using confidential documents provided to Al J...

UK’s six richest people have as much wealth as poorest 13m, study shows, prompting outrage online

UK’s six richest people have as much wealth as poorest 13m, study shows, prompting outrage online

New research showing that the six richest people in the UK control as much wealth as the poorest 13 million has prompted anger online, with the authors of the study branding the massive gap in fortunes as “dangerous.”

Four Engineers Allege Google Fired Them For Speaking Up. Now They Want The NLRB To Investigate.

Four Engineers Allege Google Fired Them For Speaking Up. Now They Want The NLRB To Investigate.

A group of former Google employees who were terminated last month are hoping their complaints about unfair labor practices will trigger a federal investigation into the search giant.

Couple paid $100 for abandoned car they found in a storage unit—Elon Musk bought it from them for nearly $1 million

Couple paid $100 for abandoned car they found in a storage unit—Elon Musk bought it from them for nearly $1 million

Couple paid $100 for abandoned car they found in a storage unit—Elon Musk bought it from them for nearly $1 million

Couple paid $100 for abandoned car they found in a storage unit—Elon Musk bought it from them for nearly $1 million

Couple paid $100 for abandoned car they found in a storage unit—Elon Musk bought it from them for nearly $1 million

Couple paid $100 for abandoned car they found in a storage unit—Elon Musk bought it from them for nearly $1 million

In 2013, Tesla CEO Elon Musk paid almost $1 million for a 1976 Lotus Esprit submarine car that was featured in the 1977 James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me". Years after the film released, the car had been missing until discovered und...

Warren Buffett is sitting on $128 billion, raising questions about whether the market is overvalued

Warren Buffett is sitting on $128 billion, raising questions about whether the market is overvalued

Buffett's decision to walk away from a deal despite Berkshire's massive cash hoard may show there aren't that many reasonably priced opportunities.

US mulls retaliation to French tech tax

US mulls retaliation to French tech tax

The US is preparing tariffs on $2.4bn (£1.85bn) worth of French exports as retaliation against the country's new digital services tax.

Apple Pay speeds up payments on London Underground

Apple Pay speeds up payments on London Underground

Apple has tweaked its Apple Pay service in an effort to reduce queues at London Tube-station barriers.

Apple's 2020 iPads and MacBooks will have new advanced displays, top analyst says

Apple's 2020 iPads and MacBooks will have new advanced displays, top analyst says

Apple is planning to use a new display technology called mini LED in its lineup of laptops and tablets starting next year, according to TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

Mercedes owner to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide

Mercedes owner to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide

Daimler, the German carmaker that owns Mercedes-Benz, has said it will shed at least 10,000 jobs worldwide as it seeks to fund the switch to electric cars.

Apple removes designer Ive from leadership page

Apple removes designer Ive from leadership page

The profile of Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple's former chief design officer, has now been deleted from the company's leadership page, ending speculation about the date of his departure.

Mobile payments undermine banks' battle for credit card dominance

Mobile payments undermine banks' battle for credit card dominance

The holiday shopping season is when consumers rack up the most debt, and banks want that to happen on their credit cards. But as Americans increasingly pay on mobile phones, analysts say it’s becoming harder for banks to stay “top of wal...

How a bank for the forgotten made its investors very rich

How a bank for the forgotten made its investors very rich

How a bank for the forgotten made its investors very rich

How a bank for the forgotten made its investors very rich

How do you get a stock to increase 144,000% in less than two decades? For one South African bank, the answer is a relentless focus on customers others forgot.

Six things almost every parent does that set kids up for financial misery

Six things almost every parent does that set kids up for financial misery

Six things almost every parent does that set kids up for financial misery

Parents may hate talking to their kids about money but that could be setting them up for future failure.

How poor people survive in the USA

How poor people survive in the USA

Homelessness, hunger and shame: poverty is rampant in the richest country in the world. Over 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago. It can happen very quickly.

BlackBerry controlled 50% of the smartphone market in the US and 20% globally

They failed to innovate and became complacent with how the smartphone market was changing.

Robinhood pulls bank charter application as fintechs face hurdles to disrupting financial system

Robinhood pulls bank charter application as fintechs face hurdles to disrupting financial system

Stock-trading start-up Robinhood is pulling its bank charter application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which was submitted earlier this year. A Robinhood spokesperson said the withdrawal was voluntary.

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