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Being financially prepared for the costs of a death was something far beyond a family's thoughts, at least until that time came. And it always did.
Video games can be fun, but buying them can really drain a bank account, although maybe if your mom worked a little harder you wouldn't have to sacr...
While there's no way to know which big deal will next grace the pages of GigaOM, allow me to offer a few humble recommendations. Here are five tech deals that make sense and why they need to happen.
The idea of splitting the meal bill at a restaurant by handing a server two or multiple credit cards could be a thing of a past. That is, if the developers of the iconic Bump app have anything to do with it.
The problem is that the ease with which we buy online is now rubbing off on our kids. The era of instant gratification blurs the line between wants and needs.
On February 18, PayPal contacted Smashwords with an ultimatum: Remove the "edgy" erotica, or face deactivation of their PayPal account. Since PayPal is integrated into the Smashwords website, Smashwords had no choice but to comply.
In its purest form, this will be simply a challenge to the branch-led distribution model. How so? Ultimately, with mobile banking and payments, the branch and resultant paperwork processes becomes a convenience "penalty" for transactional and basic onboarding.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we've all come to expect.
It was a unique combination of circumstances, talent, and audacity that would make PayPal an incubator for so many successful entrepreneurs.
With all of the deflating noises of Groupon and Zynga, is it possible Square might find themselves going the way of PayPal; downhill?
China's e-commerce scene is, like the Internet itself, a paradoxical combination of "democratic" people power and top-down "management."
When most people hear about a college-aged kid skipping college, they aren't reminded of Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. They think of an aimless eighteen-year-old who sleeps the day away and lacks real purpose.
Apple has pulled a WikiLeaks app from its iTunes store. And because of that, I will never buy another Apple product again. You've made your choice, Mr. Jobs, and now so have I.
Okay, hawkers, you've made your point. I should have used different passwords for each of my accounts, but it was so much easier to remember that my ...
Anyone who cares about Internet freedom should be concerned that, in their zeal to cripple Wikileaks, governments and companies are taking steps that pose a threat to fundamental rights.
According to current statistics, Facebook has more than 500 million ACTIVE users, 50% of whom use Facebook everyday, 200 million of these users intera...
