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Whether you’re looking to rent a one-bedroomed studio apartment in another part of town or relocating with work to the U.S. — perhaps a new job and apartment in Denver, Colorado — wherever you live and rent, you’ll need to ensure you do your...
31 May 2018
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A new survey by NatWest has revealed that half of British adults online say they are most concerned about being a victim of fraud in the next 12 months. This compares to a third (33%) who were most worried about their home being burgled. But are...
26 April 2018
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Company Mergers and Acquisitions, and their Inevitable Dominance A guest blog from www.16best.net Today, mergers and acquisitions are not strange concepts. This is basically a case where the ownership of organisations, as well as all their...
3 April 2018
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Cybercrime has evolved into an entire industry. As the internet expands, people are using more apps, users are storing more data in more places, and more people can access that data. Therefore, there are more places to sell it. Cybercrime and...
23 March 2018
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Seems like March has turned into Facebook’s mensis horribilis. Earlier in the month, we had the social network soliciting opinions from a number of users on what its policy should be if an adult man "asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual...
22 March 2018
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In the 2008 report “Safer children in a digital world”, Professor Tanya Byron made 38 recommendations for government on keeping children safe online. A decade on, against a backdrop of political changes and technological developments, the NSPCC...
16 February 2018
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Over the last two months there has been a lot of hype surrounding cryptocurrency. There have been many stories of people who have made a fortune overnight by selling Bitcoin that they have been ‘mining’ for years, with other cryptocurrency...
9 February 2018
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Just watching YouTube and looking at the thousands of uploads made me realise once again that we do need to remember that as with most things relating to online usage – it’s not the apps/sites that are the problem but the lack of understanding...
7 February 2018
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