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You'd think that with things in a bit of mess, your average punter would be a tad wary about playing the stock market at the moment. But according to a survey from Lloyds TSB's wealth management unit,...
With tough times upon us, state and local governments in the US are looking to make a few quid by auctioning surplus goods online. Businessweek reports that everything from helicopters to armored pers...
With the dire state of the economy forcing people to tighten their belts, it seems most Americans would rather forgo that pair of socks or pointless gadget this Christmas in favour of something they c...
Dave Birch, on his Digital Money blog, has found what may well be the fintech geek's ultimate fantasy - a payments terminal in the shape of a life-sized android. Developed in Japan (of course) by NEC...
The FT reports the launch of a new Mastercard credit card in oil and mineral rich Kazakhstan. Big deal, you may say, but this is no ordinary piece of plastic - it's inlaid with a 0.02 carat diamond a...
Sarkozy isn't the only recent high profile victim of fraudsters. Des O'Connor - British chat show host and famously bad singer - was taken for around £1000 by a shop assistant who used his mobile ph...
With Barclaycard chief Antony Jenkins predicting that the humble plastic card is doomed as we all migrate to mobile phones and biometrics, German vendor Giesecke & Devrient looks like it has been...
Forget your boring ghosts, vampires and witches, if you really want to put the frighteners on people this Halloween you need to invest in an 'evil' Hank Paulson or Ben Bernanke mask. For the bargain p...
With capitalism taking a pretty bad beating over the last few months, the work of its greatest critic, Karl Marx, is being rediscovered. Apparently, sales of Das Kapital have gone through the roof in...
Mick Jagger is joining a load of industry bods - including Steve Jobs - to draw up a report on barriers to e-commerce within the EU. He was asked to help out after taking part in a roundtable discussi...
The current market turmoil looks like it's going to hit offshore outsourcing firms pretty hard. As the FT reported a couple of days ago, firms like HCL and Wipro are putting a brave face on the crisi...
You might want to think twice before laying off any IT administrators because it appears they can, and more importantly will, walk away with all your company secrets. A survey from Cyber Ark has foun...