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What is a closed insurance claim?
livemint.com - 4 Oct 2018 06:21
Non-life insurance companies classify claims closed as those claims that are unpaid for want of more documents from the insured person or where the policyholder hasn't pursued the claim further
Lifetime Achievement: UBS' Rosemary Berkery
American Banker - 4 Oct 2018 17:17
The former banking lawyer, who went on to run major business lines at Merrill Lynch and UBS, will be honored Thursday at American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking gala.
Oil holds near four-year highs; Saudi, Russia agree to up supply
Reuters - 4 Oct 2018 16:46
Oil held just below four-year highs on Thursday, supported by the imminent loss of Iranian supply through U.S. sanctions, but also tempered by the prospect of a rapid production increase from Saudi Arabia and Russia.
BitTorrent's uTorrent Web passes 1 million daily active users
Venture Beat - 4 Oct 2018 17:07
BitTorrent today announced that its latest creation, uTorrent Web, has passed 1 million daily active users. Although uTorrent Web had been available in beta for years, the web-based torrent client was finally released as...
Established firms try dancing to a millennial tune
The Economist - 4 Oct 2018 16:43
OLDER people are not the only ones to try too hard to be hip and youthful. Long-established firms can, too. Just look at Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world's largest consumer-goods firms, which this year applied to...
What to expect from September's jobs report
New York Post - 4 Oct 2018 04:21
There are only two more employment reports before the congressional elections. One of them is coming Friday. Wall Street is guessing that 180,000 new jobs were created in September, although that number might go up becau...
China Begins To Blink In The Trade War, And That's Good For Its Citizens
Forbes - 4 Oct 2018 02:18
America's tariffs have begun to have an impact on China's trade policies.
What 2001: A Space Odyssey can tell us about life in 2018
Fast Company - 4 Oct 2018 14:30
Fifty years later, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece still holds valuable lessons about privacy, algorithms, and human-computer interaction. Watching a 50th anniversary screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I found myself, a...
Feds might investigate Google over Android operating system
New York Post - 4 Oct 2018 02:49
Alphabet's Google may soon have more federal regulators breathing down its neck. President Trump's antitrust chief at the Department of Justice told Capitol Hill lawmakers on Wednesday that his agency could investigate t...
The Wall Street Journal: Some Facebook employees upset over exec's support for Kavanaugh
Market Watch - 4 Oct 2018 23:25
Hundreds of Facebook Inc. employees have expressed outrage about a top global policy executive's decision to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by appearing at his hearing last week, people familiar with the m...
Small-company stocks stumble after strong start to 2018
ABC News - 4 Oct 2018 19:56
Smaller company stocks have stumbled after racking up strong gains for much of this year
Deep Dive: These S&P 500 companies are expected to grow sales the most
Market Watch - 4 Oct 2018 17:14
Some of the leading revenue growers of 2018 may tell a different story next year.
The EU's new privacy law is starting to bite Facebook
The Economist - 4 Oct 2018 16:43
REGULATION helps incumbents, which have the resources to comply, but hurts newcomers. Or so argue critics of the European Commission's new rules for the digital realm and of its privacy law, the General Data Protection R...
Why the economy isn't doing as well as we think
New York Post - 4 Oct 2018 04:16
You've heard a lot of applauding about the US economy. Some muted cheering has even come from this column. Now I'd like to present the other side of the economy. And this is even more important for America's future than ...
Barnes & Noble may be preparing to put itself up for sale
New York Post - 4 Oct 2018 04:11
Barnes & Noble's next biggest seller could be itself. The beleaguered book retailer announced on Wednesday that it is forming a committee to review strategic alternatives for the company after receiving "expressions of i...
Facebook, responding to lawsuit, says sex trafficking banned on site
Reuters - 4 Oct 2018 03:43
Facebook said on Wednesday in response to a lawsuit accusing it of not doing enough to protect users from human traffickers that it works internally and externally to thwart such predators.
Axos seeks boost in deposits, fee income with latest niche deal
American Banker - 4 Oct 2018 22:07
In what would be its third acquisition in a year, the company formerly known as BofI Holding is buying a firm that clears trades for independent broker-dealers.
Google Assistant now compares Lyft and Uber prices, but it can't book a car
Venture Beat - 4 Oct 2018 19:59
Google’s keeping the Google Assistant, its AI-powered, cross-device voice and visual assistant, fresh with a steady stream of updates. Yesterday saw the rollout of an improved visual interface on Android and support fo...
Square rolls out lending for customer purchases
American Banker - 4 Oct 2018 17:17
Square Inc. is offering loans to customers to pay for goods and services from merchants that use its payments platform, another move by the company to push deeper into financial services.
Futures Movers: Oil falls from 4-year high as impact from Iran sanctions scrutinized
Market Watch - 4 Oct 2018 17:07
Oil futures on Thursday fell from the nearly four-year highs scored a day earlier as attention fixed again on declines in Iranian exports ahead of an approaching deadline for further U.S. sanctions.
Bitcoin was used to fund Russia's cyberattacks, Justice Department says
Market Watch - 4 Oct 2018 17:05
The Justice Department indictment against seven Russian military officers for a series of alleged cyber attacks unveiled Thursday contained another allegation that Russia turned to bitcoin to fund the efforts.