Sharing financial wisdom with your kids
Parents often try to impart their values about money to help their children establish a strong financial foundation. If you are a parent, talking to your kids about money can help them learn how to be financially responsible, self-supporting adults. To get the discussion flowing, consider using these conversation starters depending on your child’s age. […]
4 Tax Surprises You Might Face in Retirement
Many working adults are used to losing a portion of their income to taxes. New retirees, on the other hand, are often shocked to find that much of their income is, in fact, subject to taxes as well. Here are a few unpleasant tax surprises that might catch you off guard in retirement if you […]
Should You Get Your Boss a Holiday Gift?
If you have an excellent boss who has treated you well all year, you might be tempted to add them to your holiday gift list. That’s not always a good idea, and it’s a decision you should be very careful with. “Tread carefully,” Jo Bennett, a partner in the executive search firm Battalia Winston, told […]
Credit scores reveal red flags about a person that have nothing to do with money
Many new couples inquire about a potential mate’s age or how many previous partners they’ve had. Others are more interested in another number. Approximately 42% of adults say knowing someone’s credit score would affect their willingness to date that person, according to a recent survey of 1,000 adults by personal finance website Bankrate.com. That’s up […]
Tumblr for iOS mysteriously disappears from the App Store, company investigating
Tumblr’s app for iOS has mysteriously disappeared from the App Store this weekend. While details of the removal are unclear at this point, Tumblr says it is investigating “issues with the iOS app” and will continue to provide updates. The issues for Tumblr seem to have started earlier this week. PiunikaWeb spotted that users could […]
Apple and Microsoft are fixing a serious iCloud bug in Windows 10
The return of Windows 10’s October update wasn’t welcome news for everyone. Microsoft says it’s “working with Apple” to solve an iCloud for Windows bug that creates problems updating or syncing shared photo albums when using the latest Windows release. Suffice it to say that’s a serious problem if you’re interested in seamless access to […]
Selfies will be used to automatically adjust the screen brightness on budget Samsung phones
To save a few dollars, Samsung doesn’t include an ambient light sensor in some of its budget handsets. Samsung is adding a feature that will allow the front-facing camera to take a photo every time the phone is unlocked to adjust the screen brightness automatically. To help grow its market share in regions such as […]
Sorry Cortana, Microsoft Is Now Selling Alexa Devices
Microsoft’s Cortana assistant is reportedly becoming more of an assistance aide than a standalone service, being moved from Microsoft’s AI + Research department to its Experiences & Devices Team and working with Amazon to pair it with the latter company’s Alexa technology. Now, per Engadget, Microsoft seems to be encouraging customers to just buy Alexa-powered […]
Sonos offers teaser for new line of products as shares rocket 10%
Promise of a line of products for outside the home welcomed by analysts who are worried about growing competition Better-than-expected earnings and a teaser for a new product line sent shares of high-end speaker maker Sonos Inc. up 10% on Friday. The company, which reported quarterly earnings late Thursday for the second time since going […]
Asian markets quiet as U.S.-China trade tensions linger
Nikkei up slightly, Hang Seng gives up early gains Asian stock markets were subdued in early trading Monday, as investors remained cautious of tensions between the U.S. and China after a pan-Pacific summit ended without consensus on trade issues. Japan’s Nikkei NIK, +0.65% rose 0.3% as the yen USDJPY, +0.00% bounced off some of its […]