Welcome to Wednesday, everyone! Check out these must-read tech stories for today: 1. Apple is offering free battery replacements for certain iPhone 6s handsets. A batch of units from late 2015 are randomly shutting down for no reason, so the manufacturer was forced to act. Read more here. 2. Fast-loan fintech firm Enably has scored…
Heres the deal: You have a four-day weekend on deck. You have a fully stocked Hulu watchlist that you havent worked your way through yet. This isnt a crisis, its an opportunity. Need help prioritizing? We suggest starting with the movies leaving at the end of Novemberand weve handpicked the most essential flicks in that…
That’s it for Markets Live today. Thanks for reading and your comments. See you all again tomorrow morning from 9. An afternoon recovery led by the big banks faded into the close, leading to another indifferent day on the ASX as investors ponder the next step for financial markets, although shareholders in energy stocks had…
On Tuesday, a High Court hearing revealed that one man was charged a shocking 240 per cent annual interest on his loan by a licensed moneylender. Too high? Moneylenders and debt counsellors tell NG JUN SEN ([email protected]) that such rates were the norm before new rules kicked in last year It is a mathematics problem…
Anyone who believes that fat people are jolly never met Elmer Bones Remmer, San Franciscos gambling czar. Casino owner Warren Nelson, who worked for Remmer, described Bones as the meanest, crudest guy who ever lived. For a man like this, a name like Elmer doesnt seem to fit. The name Bones, however, seemed oddly appropriate…
When Rachel White had a big corporate job in finance, she thought nothing of blowing a couple of grand on clothes every weekend. White says she was dealing with underlying anxiety or tension, and she used shopping as retail therapy to “zone out” on a Saturday or in the evenings after work. Rachel White is…
On Tuesday, a High Court hearing revealed that one man was charged a shocking 240 per cent annual interest on his loan by a licensed moneylender. Too high? Moneylenders and debt counsellors tell NG JUN SEN ([email protected]) that such rates were the norm before new rules kicked in last year It is a mathematics problem…
A police inspector accused of deceiving colleagues about a £100,000-plus debt has been sacked for gross misconduct. Jon Percival, 45, borrowed tens of thousands of pounds from friends and colleagues without telling them the full extent of his financial troubles, a disciplinary panel concluded. On Friday he was dismissed at the end of a four-day…
Recently, the case of a woman being forced to pay her ex-husband’s debt has captured the attention of the Chinese public, many of who fear that th… Read the full article at: http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-11/18/content_39731258.htm
When it comes to workplace fraud, it can be tempting to boil down the cause into simplistic statements, such as saying the fraudster was just greedy and dishonest. But of course things are generally not quite that simple, and just as plane crashes usually require at least two or three things to go wrong, in…