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Survey Highlights Demand For Stricter Rules For Large Tech Companies Over Privacy Issues By Americans

A recent national representative survey conducted on 2500 adults in the U.S. has revealed that regulation of major technology companies is desired by majority of Americans. Such tech companies also need to own the blame for what appears on their platforms. The Americans also demanded greater...

56% Of U.S. Married Women Believe Their Spouse Know More About Investments Than They Do: UBS Study

The reasons why men and women tend to accept financial disparity and its consequences in the USA were highlighted in a report that was published by UBS Wealth Management USA recently in a white paper.   According to the report titled “Own your worth,” investment and financial decisions are...

Surveys Show Declining Trust Of People On Facebook Over Personal Data Security

Even as advertisements in the name of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry for the data misuse incident filled newspapers in the United Kingdom, an survey that was released on Sunday has revealed that the degree of confidence and trust that users have on Facebook is doubtful at least in the...

U.S. Card Consumers Remain At Risk Even After The Equifax Data Breach

People are probably putting themselves at risk and not realizing it as far as identity theft is concerned.   Jeff Faulkner, acting president and CEO of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, or NFCC, says: "putting too much personal information out on social media is the most...

Oxfam Says 82% Of Global Wealth Belongs To Richest 1%, Stresses Widening Inequality Gap

The global charity Oxfam claimed that the amount of wealth that is present with the poorest 50 percent worldwide is owned by just 42 people.   There was a call for addressing the increasing gap existing between the super-rich and the rest of the world population given by the Oxfam report...

$3.83 A Month Offered By Venezuela President For Pregnant Women

A little additional cash is being doled out to pregnant women by the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.   And the emphasis is completely on the words "a little."   A payment of 700,000 bolivars a month would be paid by the Venezuelan government to pregnant women, announced Maduro...

Corruption Charges Held In Court, Lotte Founder, Chairman Convicted

The Lotte Group chairman and his son barely escaped jail even though they were convicted on corruption charges on Friday.   Sources among the court officials conformed that the 95 year old age factor of founder Shin Kyuk-ho was behind an arrest warrant not being issued against him despite...

New Study Finds Solitude Seeking People Are Typically More Creative

God proclaimed that “it is not good for the man to be alone” in the Book of Genesis and it is perhaps the earliest evidence on the harmful effects of loneliness and solitude.   Poor academic performance, bad interpersonal relationships, reducing self -esteem and risks of anxiety...

New Normal For Office Workers Is Flexibility Of Remote Working, Says A Survey

A recent study from Staples has shown that only about 32 percent of all employees have spent their time working in their office all the time this year. According to the study, the new normal for office workers is the flexibility to be able to work remotely. And the conclusion of the study also...

In A $5 Million Scam 'Straight Out Of Le Carre', Billionaire Branson Was Targeted

The billionaire founder of the Virgin group, Richard Branson, has been attempted to be coaxed into making a contribution of $5 million to a supposed secret ransom payment by a fraudster posing as Britain’s defense minister, the flamboyant business tycoon has revealed recently.   Later, a...

Women To Drive In Saudi Arabia Will Now Be Allowed To Dive After Saudi King Issues Decree

Ending a conservative tradition seen by rights activists as an emblem of the Islamic kingdom's repression of women, the Saudi King Salman ordered that women be allowed to drive cars.   Despite gradual improvement on some women's issues in recent years and ambitious government targets to...

Now The World's Richest Woman Now Is A L'Oreal Heiress

The spotlight on a reclusive 64-year-old heiress who now finds herself as the richest woman in the world, has now been put by the death this week of L’Oreal SA’s founding family matriarch.   The glittering social life that Liliane Bettencourt had once embraced has been shunned by her...
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