Have you visited The Huffington Post and several other websites in the past week? You may have been the victim of an infection as these websites displayed malware advertisements, otherwise known as "malvertising." According to a blog post authored by researchers at cybersecurity … [Read more...]
Report Proves Our Lives are Dominated by Apps
Using a mobile application has become an important component to shopping, productivity and utilities and messaging. Apparently, consumers are opening up an app to enhance the shopping experience, improve their productivity and communicate with their friends, and this usage is growing, … [Read more...]
Dish Gets the Hint and Offers New $20 Sling TV Streaming Service
After experiencing a substantial number of cord cutters, and finally realizing that millennials don't want to pay for a full package of television channels they don't watch, Dish announced Monday an affordable brand new streaming service that is meant to "Take Back TV." For $20 per … [Read more...]
Canadians Having a Tough Time Reaching Financial Goal
The Canadian economy may be improving, but consumers in the Great White North aren't that confident about their own personal finances, says a new poll released by CIBC on Monday. According to the survey, 65 percent of Canadians ended 2014 feeling confident about reaching their … [Read more...]
Gas Tax Hike May Become a Reality Soon
Last month, former Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Ed Rendell recommended that the federal government begin to raise the gas tax as fuel prices continue to fall in order to pay for infrastructure projects. “The gas tax hike … would be 12 cents adjusted for inflation," said Gov. … [Read more...]
Number of U.S. Renters Increased Significantly in 2014
Despite the fact that most mainstream economists dismiss any sort of uptick in price inflation, the amount of rent that Americans paid this year shot up nearly $21 billion to a grand total of $441 billion. According to a new report from Zillow Inc., a Seattle-based real estate … [Read more...]
Paying Down Debt is Canadians No. 1 New Year’s Resolution
This is the time of the year when everyone starts reflecting on the last 12 months and then proceed to come up with a number of resolutions for the next 12 months. Saving more money, losing weight, paying off debt, exercising more and improving upon one's career are usually the most … [Read more...]
Unexpected Rise in U.S Weekly Job Claims Sign of Things to Come?
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week. However, it still hasn't changed the perception that the labor market continues to improve and return to pre-recession levels. Initial claims, which is a description for layoffs, for state … [Read more...]
Start Date for Tax Filing Season is Set on Jan. 20th
Christmas is over, the turkey is digesting in our bellies and the unrelenting reality of tax season is upon us. For the next few months, Americans will be undergoing the pain of filing their tax forms and paying the taxman. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Tuesday that … [Read more...]
California Needs 11 Trillion Gallons of Water to End Drought
The state of California is experiencing a massive drought. In order to end this multi-year drought, the Golden State will need approximately 11 trillion gallons of water, and even with the plethora of storms in the past month it still won't be enough to address the … [Read more...]
China Suffers Further Oppression as ‘Great Firewall’ Blocks Gmail
For months, access to the world's largest email service was continually disrupted across China. Now, it is being reported that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Gmail has been completely blocked, and the Great Firewall is getting the blame for this lack of access, according to GreatFire.org, … [Read more...]
Amazon Scored 10 Million New Prime Members at $99 Year
Christmas is finally over and retailers are starting to look at the numbers. For Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its customers, it was a holiday of big business and savings. In its annual day-after-Christmas debrief, Amazon announced it had signed up to 10 million new subscribers for its … [Read more...]
North Korea’s Internet Outage is Over
Ostensibly, North Korea's Internet experienced a complete outage Monday as the nation's elite and well-connected could not access websites - the average citizen doesn't have an Internet connection nor a device to browse the World Wide Web. It is now being reported that it has returned … [Read more...]
Russia Orders Exporters to Sell Forex Currency
One day after the Russian government confirmed that it would not impose currency controls because it did not believe in them, it was announced that Moscow would in fact institute informal currency controls by ordering exporters to sell their foreign exchange currency revenues to aid … [Read more...]
Russia is Embarking Upon a ‘Full-Blown Economic Crisis’
A former Russian finance minister has lambasted the government for helping the country enter into a "full-blown economic crisis" for not tackling the nation's financial problems fast enough during the "quiet years." Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister, warned that Russia will … [Read more...]
5 Trillion Pieces of Trash Littering the Ocean
The world's oceans have become a dumpster site as a new study released notes that five trillion pieces of trash are situated in the world's oceans. Although it has been reported on the astronomical amount of plastic pollution floating around, it did note there are fewer small … [Read more...]
Webmasters Still Reeling from RevSlider Exploit
It has been discovered that more than 100,000 WordPress websites have been infected with malware after cyber attackers took advantage of a plug-in referred to as RevSlider, a popular plugin among websites. The attack is meant to metastasize WordPress into a distributor of malware to … [Read more...]
Facebook Losing Its Core Teenage Base
For the past decade, the social networking juggernaut Facebook has been all the rage for youth. The latest trend, however, has been for teenagers to dump the social media outlet and head over to some of its competitors to communicate with their friends, follow celebrities and post … [Read more...]
FCC Issues Ruling on Washington Redskins Name
Whether or not the Washington Redskins name is offensive or nor has been fiercely debated for months now. From the Obama administration to sports analysts, everyone has given their two cents on the matter. But now a government agency has chimed in. The Federal Communications … [Read more...]
BlackBerry Posts Huge 3rd Quarter Loss of $148M
Ostensibly, BlackBerry's fortunes may be coming up roses due to CEO John Chen's cost-cutting efforts, transition to enterprise security software and consumer services to professionals in healthcare, finance and business. According to the recent third-quarter reporting results, the … [Read more...]
