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Instagram Invites Security Experts To Hack Its Checkout Feature

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Instagram is inviting a group of security researchers known as white hat hackers to stress-test its Checkout feature before it launches outside the United States. Instagram is a place for people to treat themselves with inspiration, not a place to tax themselves with errands. The rewards can go up to $40,000 per case.

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Groupon Said To Be Pondering Yelp Acquisition

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Sources familiar with the situation told the paper Yelp “would be a logical matchup” and the combination of the two companies could bring as much as $1 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). At the time of its initial public offering in 2011, Groupon was valued at $16.5

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The Life And Times Of A Most-Wanted Fraudster

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Account takeover fraud , card-not-present (CNP) fraud, tax fraud, selling stolen financials, selling fake bank accounts, the Dark Web: If security experts are fighting it today, chances are that Brett Johnson was there when it started. Luckily for Johnson, he’d discovered tax fraud by then. They tried, but I wouldn’t listen.”.

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FICO Changes Reporting Data

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Good news is ahead for those suffering from low FICO scores — according to reports this morning, civil judgements and tax liens will by and large be coming off of consumer credit reports. The change will apply to new tax lien and civil judgment data that are added to credit reports as well as existing data on the reports.

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African Dictator’s Son Stands Trial For Money Laundering

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Forbes reported that Obiang has been accused by prosecutors of siphoning funds from a tax on sales of wood — levied during his time as agriculture minister from between 2004 and 2011 — to his own bank accounts.

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US Retail Sales See February Slump

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percent from the previous month and a full 6 percent year on year, the most significant decline since December 2011. Eugenio Aleman, senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina, told Bloomberg that one of the reasons February sales growth was relatively weak was due to the delay of tax refunds.

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How Patreon Overcame Its Subscription Struggles

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The company’s origins date to 2011, when Founder Jack Conte uploaded a high-concept music video to YouTube. Patreon implements additional security measures at the point of payout, requesting more stringent proof of identity before releasing creators’ incomes.