Credit card issuers urged to provide free credit scores

Big banks are being asked to give free credit scores to customers. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked major credit card issuers to provide free scores to consumers in order to help them improve their credit...

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Police smash "Wolf of Wall Street" scam

LONDON (CNNMoney) More than 100 people have been arrested in Spain, the United Kingdom., Serbia and the United States on suspicion of money laundering and fraud, according to the London police. They're suspected of making millions by selling worthless...

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Bitcoin market Mt.Gox files for bankruptcy

LONDON (CNNMoney) The company filed for bankruptcy protection at a Tokyo court on Friday with debts of 6.5 billion yen ($64 million), Japanese media reported. Mt.Gox was one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges until earlier this month, when...

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How LEGO got hot ... again

A LEGO rescue-helicopter set, unboxed. ReD's hands-on market research helped the toymaker get "back to the brick." (Fortune) The problem was, no one knew quite what the problem was. LEGO had tried different fixes, expanding into new product lines...

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Five ways to protect your ideas

(Fortune) 1. You snooze, you lose Eighty-eight percent of big companies' value is based on their brands, methodologies, content, training systems, and other innovations, and the same holds true for many smaller players, says attorney Andrew Sherman,...

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Secret's in the sauce

More than 20% of Vox Media employees are developers and designers, CEO Jim Bankoff says. (Fortune) You've probably read something in a Vox Media publication in the past year. The young company publishes the sports blog SBNation, the gaming site...

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Apple fixes security flaw for Macs

Apple issued a security fix for Macs four days after hole was patched for mobile devices. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The software update patches a security hole in OS X, the operating system for Apple computers. It comes four days after the same bug...

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China currency weakness shocks investors

HONG KONG (CNNMoney) For years, investors have viewed the steady appreciation of the Chinese currency as one of the few things in life they could count on. Indeed, it's gained about 10% since the middle of 2010. But markets have been shocked in...

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Stocks: Holding steady as earnings flow

Click on chart to track premarkets NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Barnes & Noble (BKS, Fortune 500), Target (TGT, Fortune 500), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) and TJX (TJX, Fortune 500) are all set to release earnings before the market opens. Then,...

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Detroit reaches deal on retiree health care

Protestors oppose cuts to healthcare coverage for city of Detroit retirees. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) "We're happy we're able to reach any agreement short of protracted litigation," Nowling said. "Things are starting to move in the bankruptcy case...

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Will Obama's pledge get the unemployed back to work?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) But actually hire them? Their pledge doesn't go quite that far. On Friday, the White House unveiled a pact signed by 300 companies that have agreed to implement new best practices intended to stamp out discrimination against...

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What Americans think about Obama's myRA plan

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) But not everyone thinks the new plans are a great deal. The accounts, which will launch in a pilot program later this year and will eventually be available to any worker who gets paid through direct deposit and earns below a certain...

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