My 11-year-old daughter made more than 300 in-app purchases over five days on Roblox, the online games platform, resulting in a £2,400 bill on my wife’s PayPal account. At the time, my wife was in ICU recovering from a 15-hour operation to remove a brain tumour. Incapacitated, and without access Continue Reading
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Isbell to donate his share of Morgan Wallen’s sales to NAACP Sales share Jason Isbell Morgan Wallen Money- Tempemail
Grammy-winning singer songwriter Jason Isbell says he is going to donate money that he makes from Morgan Wallen s cover of his song “Cover Me Up” to the NAACP. Wallen, who has had the No. 1 album in the country for the past four weeks, was caught on camera last Continue Reading
Snapchat Spotlight: feature gives rival TikTok a run for its money | Snapchat- Tempemail
Pet influencers are nothing new on social media. From Marnie the shih tzu (RIP) to Grumpy Cat (also RIP), there’s a long history of animals becoming famous on the internet – and their owners making a quick buck off them in turn. But Crusha, a nine-year-old black-and-white moggy from Norfolk, Continue Reading
Refurbished smartphones are widely available – so should you buy one? | Money
Buying new smartphones gets worse for the wallet every year. Back in 2008, the first generation iPhone cost about $700. The tenth generation started at $1,549. Today, the top-shelf iPhone 12 Pro Max with more than 500gb of storage is an uncomfortable $2,369 – about a third more than the Continue Reading
Airtel Africa to Sell Stake in Airtel Money – Tempemail
Sourced from Comms MEA Airtel Africa has revealed its plans to raise cash by selling a minority stake in Airtel Money – its mobile financial platform. According to Business Daily, this move is part of the company’s strategy to sell some assets. “We are actively pursuing the sale of the Continue Reading
Wall Street versus the Redditors: the GameStop goldrush – podcast | News
At the beginning of the year, not many people were paying attention to GameStop. Its business of selling video games in retail stores looked increasingly shaky as the market shifted ever more online in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic. GameStop’s seemingly grim prospects led Wall Street hedge funds to Continue Reading
Remitano makes Money Transfer between South Africa and other Countries Easier and Faster with the New “Cash-out” Feature – Tempemail
Due to the ever-increasing volume of money transfers across the globe, Remitano, a global escrow-marketplace, has just launched a smart, free, and safe approach for international money transfers. This system will allow South Africans to send and receive Rands (ZAR) from other countries without incurring the high fees charged by Continue Reading
Facebook ‘still making money from anti-vax sites’ | Facebook
Facebook is allowing users to profit from the spread of potentially dangerous false theories and misinformation about the pandemic and vaccines, including deploying money-raising tools on pages with content flagged up by the social media giant’s own factcheckers. An investigation has found 430 pages – followed by 45 million people Continue Reading
Who uses social media for financial advice? Lots of people, actually | Money- Tempemail
This week GameStop, an American video game retailer, became the most traded security in the world thanks to Reddit users. Specifically, thanks to the now more than 5 million users who make up r/WallStreetBets. The Redditors are currently in a head-to-head war with hedge funds over who has the right Continue Reading
Young women of colour navigate the risky world of forex trading | Money
For 21-year-old Lina Khalid, it’s her grandmother’s dream of visiting Mecca that drives her while trading currency. “I’m gonna do it. Even if I have days where I’m not going to sleep, I’m gonna do it,” she says. A car for herself, some Air Jordans for her sister and being Continue Reading