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Author: Molly Wood / Source: WIRED You would be forgiven if you read Mark Zuckerberg’s Wednesday post about Facebook moving to “A Privacy-Minded Vision for Social Networking” and thought it was either a deathbed conversion, a cynical ploy to avoid regulation and reassure users, or even just an

Source: WCVB NEW YORK (CNN Business) — Alarmed investors drove the Dow more than 650 points lower in a shortened trading session on Monday. Markets plunged after the Trump administration sent out confusing signals about markets and the economy. The S&P 500 fell 2.7 percent and the Nasdaq

Author: Barbara Kollmeyer / Source: MarketWatch The markets have enough to worry about these days, right? With major U.S. indexes in or near bear territory, a government shutdown under way and the White House falling over itself to assure us no one is firing Fed Chief Powell, Treasury Secretary

Author: Nathaniel Popper / Source: New York Times Chime, part of a new wave of alternative banks, has opened two million fee-free online checking accounts. Other so-called neo-banks include Aspiration, Empower and Varo. Cayce Clifford for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — After the financial