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What’s really going on in financial technology?   

Financial technology, or “fintech” for short, is threatening to turn traditional financial fields like banking, lending, asset management and insurance upside down.   

New firms are using new mobile, social and digital technology to find new customers and offer them new financial products that meet their needs in a fast-changing world.   

All this “new” is exciting…but disruptive and disorienting, too. Читать дальше...

Zhana Vrangalova had hit a problem. On a blustery day in early spring, sitting in a small coffee shop near the campus of New York University, where she is an adjunct professor of psychology, she was unable to load onto her laptop the Web site that we had met to discuss. This was not a technical malfunction on her end; rather, the site had been blocked. Vrangalova, who is thirty-four, with a dynamic face framed by thick-rimmed glasses, has spent the past decade researching human sexuality, and... Читать дальше...

(ATTN: UPDATES with Pentagon briefing; CHANGES dateline) WASHINGTON/SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed Friday to continue to seek policy coordination and share information against North Korea's nuclear and missi

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NNMU) SRC president Nicholas Nyati was allegedly attacked by Sasco members on campus earlier this week.

Online competition and rocketing rents have put London's jewellery craftsmen under pressure.

A murder case that became the media sensation of its day (it even had a film adaptation—commissioned by Thomas Edison).

According to the Times of India, jeering crowds clicked their pictures and posted them on the social media.

Officials from U.S. Pacific Command and the island of Tinian signed an agreement Friday establishing a divert airfield in the American territory.

The three remaining Korean War veterans in Congress introduced a resolution Friday calling on the U.S. to resume talks with North Korea to account for the thousands of American servicemembers still missing from the conflict.

Four multinational flotillas have set sail toward Hawaii for the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise.

PAPILLION — Late June in Omaha usually means baseball fever.

Friday: Gary SouthShore 10, Lincoln 2.

Cowlitz catcher Justin Wakem had plenty of options on what sport he wanted to hone his skills in.

St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 420 West Ave. S., will have music at its 9 a.m. Sunday worship service by members of the the Gospel Truth Singers and the Good News Singers, both a part of the Coulee Region Gospel Choir.

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins erased an early four-run deficit with Justin Bour's first-inning grand slam, and then managed only one hit the rest of the night.

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins erased an early four-run deficit with Justin Bour's first-inning grand slam, and then managed only one hit the rest of the night.

MIAMI — The Miami Marlins erased an early four-run deficit with Justin Bour’s first-inning grand slam, and then managed only one hit the rest of the night. That wasn’t enough. Miami was blanked over the final eight innings Friday and lost 5-4 to the Chicago Cubs, who broke a four-game losing streak. “It’s a tough

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins erased an early four-run deficit with Justin Bour's first-inning grand slam, and then managed only one hit the rest of the night.

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins erased an early four-run deficit with Justin Bour's first-inning grand slam, and then managed only one hit the rest of the night.

After nearly two decades of negotiations, Disney’s $5.5 billion theme park in the glitzy financial capital of Shanghai finally opened on June 16.

Does Hillary Clinton get it?

The Democratic presidential candidate, for whom Bernie Sanders now says he will vote in November, reacted to the British referendum to withdraw from the European Union in much the same fashion as, well, the EU bureaucrats just rejected by voters much like those driving Trumpism in the United States.

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Brexit could have a negative impact on Ecuador as it could lead to the weakening of the euro, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said.

BALTIMORE (AP) — For a while, the Tampa Bay Rays appeared poised to end their miserable losing streak.

BALTIMORE (AP) — For a while, the Tampa Bay Rays appeared poised to end their miserable losing streak.