But for people who want to spend less – in one case, absolutely nothing – to upgrade, Apple (AAPL) And big wireless carriers are offering big discounts to people trading in their older devices. T-Mobile (TMUS) And Verizon (WZ) Customers’ phones are being given trade-in credits ranging from old 200 …
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But this year is especially important because the world is far from the economic consequences of the coronavirus epidemic. Millions of Indian shoppers are still wary of coming to physical stores, and Meena expects online sales to grow by more than 34% this year to 6.5 billion. “This is the …
Read More »Robinhood tells day traders to raise their cash buffer in many popular stocks before the market opens
Baiju Bhatt, a Robinhood cofounder. Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch Robinhood told traders of the day on Thursday, hours before the market opened, to increase their cash buffer on many widely held stocks, as they could face an account loss. The trading platform said that since Friday the …
Read More »The shocking Twitter hack this summer began with a tech support scandal, New York regulators claim.
At the time of the July 15 attack, Twitter did not have a chief information security officer and was suffering from internal security vulnerabilities, the report concluded. Officials behind the report called for additional cybersecurity regulation of major tech platforms. “As other industries such as telecommunications, utilities and finance are …
Read More »Blatley Park: Facebook donates 3 1.3 million to boost WWII code breaking site
During the war, the mansion in Buckinghamshire in southeastern England was home to the British Government Code and Cipher School, where the world’s first programmable digital computer was built to interpret Nazi messages. Facebook said Monday that the “computer age was born” on the site, announcing its $ 1.3 million …
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