As pressure to raise the federal minimum wage increases, the U.S. companies with the most minimum wage workers – primarily retailers, restaurant chains, grocery chains, and hotel chains – will need to plan for possible changes.
The recent data breach at Target is one of the worst breaches of credit card information ever. But if those millions of Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) customers had been using Bitcoin instead of credit cards, the thieves could not have stolen any of their personal data.
The thieves who stole the credit card data from Target customers took the information from Target’s own computer systems. They got credit card numbers, names, and home addresses. In short order, the Target thieves were selling this data to other criminals over the Internet.
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Friday another Bitcoin milestone was reached, as it is the first day that Internet retailer Overstock.com (Nasdaq: OSTK) started accepting the digital currency as payment.
Today (Friday), the U.S. House of Representatives passed an “Obamacare cybersecurity bill” that helps protect people from the gaping security hole that is the Obamacare website.
There’s a lucrative new trading “set-up” a lot of investors are using now. But unlike classic approaches, like “don’t fight the Fed,” and “the trend is your friend,” there are no rules on how to play this new game.
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) and Toys “R” Us Inc. are the two latest retailers to announce that they will open their doors on Thanksgiving. Other retailers like Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) have expanded their “Black Friday” hours this year.
Just like the Christmas song, “He knows when you’ve been sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows when you’ve been bad or good…”
But nowadays it isn’t Santa, it’s Big Data. And it’s becoming big business.
What can companies do with big data?
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