As of May 7, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received nearly 39,000 complaints from consumers who reported losing a median of $503, for a cumulative loss of $29 million.
In our ever-advancing technological world, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of terminology. Understanding these words and phrases is essential for business coverage since AI is everywhere. This
What do the recent arrests of three hackers in Indonesia have to do with U.S. consumers? Plenty. The three thieves are part of “Magecart,” a network of more than half
Most of us live and work in a mobile world and in business reporting, there’s often a good chance that you will have to be on the road. But it’s
Unicorns—startups with at least a $1 billion valuation—used to be as rare in business as they were in fairy tales. No more. According to market research firm CB Insights, there
In early October, Attorney General William Barr wrote an open letter to Facebook, urging the company to abandon plans to expand its use of end-to-end encryption (which ensures messages can
Everything is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) these days, if you took stock of manufacturers’ claims and general hype. Don’t, because there are a lot of misconceptions and misleading out
Data is something business journalists need to use, whether it is statistics about unemployment or information about company revenues. Sometimes data can be difficult to find and even trickier to
Clever fraudsters troll every age group, but tech-savvy Millennials are especially attractive to online scammers, warns the Scam Tracker from the Better Business Bureau(BBB)—25% more likely, in fact, than those
Generally speaking, there are two avenues for selling products: Business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B). Most large information technology (IT) companies get significant portions of the revenue
Twitter has earned itself a bad reputation in the past few years due to the amount of bullying that happens everyday on it. However, Twitter is an essential tool for
Social media has become such a fabric of life that it is also now an intrinsic part of how reporters do their work. Stories regularly include analysis of popular responses
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