As of Sep 21, “Credit Freezes” & “Unfreezes” Will Be Free for All Americans by Wolf Richter • Sep 18, 2018 • 35 Comments After the uproar about the Equifax hack, Congress did do something. And credit freezes are now a lot easier to place and lift.
Credit-Cardholders & Bank Customers Burned Again as New IT Chaos Breaks Out in the UK by Don Quijones • Sep 7, 2018 • 37 Comments The payments industry deplores it, but cash is starting to look pretty good, and central banks agree: “We do not foresee a totally cashless society”: ECB
Facebook Tries to Clean Up its Tattered Image by Safehaven • Aug 23, 2018 • 22 Comments Suddenly in a hurry to remove discriminatory ads.
Don’t Fall for This Scary “Critical Alert from Microsoft” Scam that just Happened to Me by Wolf Richter • Aug 19, 2018 • 109 Comments Here’s how I dealt with it — screenshots and all. And now you can have some fun at their expense, literally.
Oops, Facebook’s Market Cap Plunges by $143 Billion by Wolf Richter • Jul 25, 2018 • 144 Comments Throughout the scandals, Facebook was clad in Teflon and nothing mattered. But today, it mattered.
Results Are In: How Americans Faced the Equifax Hack where Personal Data of 45% of US Adults Were Stolen by Wolf Richter • Jul 24, 2018 • 55 Comments Now, 10 months later, do they even know about it? Don’t laugh….
Google Bitten by 2nd Antitrust Fine in the EU, $5 billion, Hugest Ever Anywhere. Third Waiting in the Wings by Wolf Richter • Jul 18, 2018 • 84 Comments Android is “a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine.”
What IBM Said about the IT Chaos at UK Bank TSB and Owner Sabadell, Now in its 12th Week by Don Quijones • Jul 10, 2018 • 39 Comments Contracted to fix the fiasco, IBM estimates costs at $1.25 billion: sources. There’s even talk of divorce, after just 3 years of corporate marriage.
Google, Microsoft, Oracle et al. Gang Up on Amazon for $10Bn Pentagon Prize by Safehaven • Jul 1, 2018 • 20 Comments But they’re firing blanks.
Consumers Stubbornly Cling to Cash, after Multiple IT Fiascos & Payment Systems Outages by Don Quijones • Jun 16, 2018 • 53 Comments An industry dogged by non-believers who fret about privacy and fraud.
