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Geekz Snow 2019-08-09

In particular, the report highlights a strategy the company used to keep users from bankrupting it, by changing account passwords to prevent ticket purchases that might cost it money it didn’t have.

Business Insider’s report looks at how Ted Farnsworth, CEO of MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics, and MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe, transformed the company from a little-known subscription service to a nationwide sensation.

MoviePass has had an extremely rough couple of years, due in part to its buzzy $10-a-month fee it introduced back in the summer of 2017.

The change, which allowed subscribers to see a movie a day every day of the month for less than the price of an average ticket in most American cities, resulted in an explosion in popularity and exposure for MoviePass.

The report, however, outlines how the price drop was mainly a marketing tactic to generate headlines, and that it led to a surge in sign-ups the company could barely keep up with.

For example, MoviePass never anticipated the number of physical cards it needed, and its vendor ended up running out, leading to delays in on-boarding new users.

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Global investments company D1 Capital Partners L.P (D1) based out of the US, has announced that the firm has bought a stake in one of the leading British fintech firms – online money transfer financial service provider Transferwise.The fintech news space notes that D1 has purchased a $200 million stake in the fintech solutions star, Transferwise as a part of a secondary share sale in the previous week, that witnessed the value of the startup rise up to $5billion.

This soar was a $1.5 billion increase last year on this time and was around equal to £4 billion.Both these firms are fresh faces in the industry.Nine years ago, Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo KÀÀrmann had set up Transferwise.

Kristo was an Estonian financial consultant and Taavet, a former Skype employee.

Together they set up Transferwise as a fintech solution to solve the problem of international money transfer.

Since then, the firm has grown to be an offeror of more than 750 currency routes and also reached a respectable net profit of $8 billion in the year of 2018, as stated by Forbes.D1, the US hedge fund is relatively new and is getting started after its launch in 2018 by Daniel Sundheim, a Wall Street investor who formerly stood at the helm of Viking Global Investors, a hedge fund based out of Connecticut until 2017.

The budding company was deemed as ‘one of the hottest new hedge funds’ in the industry by Business Insider, last year.

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If your Google search results are seeming a bit stale today, you're not alone.

Google announced early Thursday morning that it was experiencing indexing issues on its search service, which affects new content from appearing in search results.

Similar indexing issues plagued the search giant earlier this year, as one in particular in April lasted for nearly an entire week.

Google said the issue impacted "some sites," though it did specify further on the scale of the problem.

At the time of writing this article, searching the name of major publications like the Washington Post and New York Times in Google News, the freshest articles returned are at least four hours old.

Some, on the first page of results, are from the prior day.

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The executive in charge of Google's Pixel smartphone division — Mario Queiroz — is moving to another role, working in "the office of the CEO".

Queiroz's move to work alongside Google CEO Sundar Pichai comes at a surprising time, as the highly anticipated Pixel 4 is expected to launch this fall.

Queiroz, who joined Google in 2005, has been involved in Google's hardware efforts for years.

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Just months ahead of the expected launch of its fourth-generation device, the person in charge of Google's Pixel smartphone division— Mario Queiroz — is reportedly leaving for another role internally at the tech giant.

The news came from an Axios report Thursday which said Queiroz — Pixel's top boss, who reported directly to Hardware VP Rick Osterloh — would be leaving his current post to "work in the office of CEO Sundar Pichai."

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The average rates for fixed-rate mortgage loans rose since last week but they are still lower for fixed rates loans than they are for ARMs loans.Today the average rate of 30 years fixed mortgage rose to 3.54% with a 0.19% raise same time last week the rates were at 3.35%.The average rate of 15 years fixed mortgage today is at 2.59% which is 0.18% more than last weeks 2.41%The average rate of 7/1 ARM mortgage today stands at 4.05% rising by 0.03% the rate last week was at 4.02%Today the average rate of 10/1 ARM mortgage is at 3.33% which is 0.3% less than last weeks 3.63%The average mortgage rate of 30 years FHA is standing at 2.76% with a drop of 0.02% from 2.78% last week.And the average rate of VA mortgage loans today rose by 0.15% compared to last week from 2.70% is now standing at 2.85%.FOR THE CURRENT REFINANCE RATEToday the average rates for refinancing loans are almost all higher than for mortgage purchase loans, but they’re comparatively better than they were last week.

ARMs rates have dropped.Like mortgage purchase loans refinance ARMs are still higher than average rates for fixed-rate loans.The average rate for a 30 year fixed refinance today is 3.99% a rise of 0.25% from 3.74% last week.There is a rise of 0.2% in the average rate for a 15 year fixed refinance rate from 2.61 % last week to 2.81%.The average rate of 7/1 ARM refinance dropped today 0.14% from 4.17% last week it stands today at 4.03%The average rate of 10/1 ARM refinance dropped today 0.15% from 3.95% last week it stands today at 3.80%There is a drop of 0.01% in the average rate of 30 years FHA refinance from 2.80 to 2.79%And the average rate of VA mortgage loan refinances rose by 0.15% from 2.72% to 2.87%.Reference Source: Business Insiderhttps://www.compareclosing.com/mortgagenews/the-mortgage-rates-today/

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The mortgage rates are low today.

There are two types of mortgage rates — fixed or adjustable.In a fixed-rate mortgage, the borrower’s rate remains the same for the entire length of their loan.In an adjustable-rate mortgage, the rates are locked for the first few years, and then it changes periodically.Over the past one month and more, the adjustable rates have started to go down hence compared to fixed rates they’re more competitive than they were in over a year.When applying for a mortgage, borrowers may want to look at the fixed-rate as well as the adjustable-rate options.Earlier in 2021, the adjustable rates were higher than the 30-year fixed rates but now they are gradually going down.The average rate of 30 years fixed mortgage today is 3.59%Today’s 15 years fixed average rate is 2.62%The 7/1 ARM average rate today is 2.71%The 10/1 Average ARM rate is 3.94%The average rate for 30 years FHA is 2.72%The 30 years fixed mortgage refinance rate today is at 3.70%The average refinance rate for 15 years fixed today is 2.74%The average rate of 7/1 ARM today is 3.80%Today’s average rate for the 10/1 ARM is 4.24%Reference Source: Business Insiderhttps://www.compareclosing.com/mortgagenews/arms-rate-falling/

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Ill-fated movie ticket subscription company MoviePass is the subject of a new editorial alleging that shady tactics took place behind closed doors.

Anonymous former MoviePass employees have claimed that among other things, the company had ordered that a small percentage of power users’ account passwords be changed so they couldn’t log into the app and order tickets.

MoviePass skyrocketed to attention with the launch of its entirely unsustainable $9.95/month subscription plan, which had at the time allowed customers to see a movie every single day of the month.

Though the plan succeeded in making the company viral, it also quickly drained its coffers, eventually resulting in an emergency loan and increasing restrictions.

According to Business Insider, which cites multiple unnamed alleged former MoviePass employees, the company engaged in questionable and controversial business tactics in an effort to stay afloat.

One of these alleged tactics, Business Insider claims, was ordering that the passwords of accounts belonging to a small number of power users be changed so they couldn’t order tickets.

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MoviePass, the $10-a-month movie subscription service that once dominated the industry, has been hit with financial issues that essentially brought an end to the company as we knew it.

Some of the ways it dealt with those issues included changing some users' passwords to keep them from ordering tickets, according to a Business Insider report this week.

Because MoviePass's business model essentially involved paying theaters the full price for customers' tickets, the company was quickly losing money, according to the report.

CEO Mitch Lowe reportedly became frustrated with subscribers who took advantage of the low monthly rate by going to the movies every day, and ordered the company limit subscriber access before the April 2018 release of Avengers: Infinity War.

Lowe called for the passwords for a "small percentage of power users be changed," which would keep them from going into the MoviePass app and ordering tickets, according to Business Insider.

By the end of July 2018, the company was losing around $40 million a month, and on July 26 it ran out of money to put on MoviePass cards, Business Insider says.

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n recent years, the global economy has undergone significant changes that have affected businessesinsider and consumers alike. In particular, the rise of digital platforms and online marketplaces has transformed the way that people buy and sell goods and services. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital currencies have gained mainstream acceptance as a viable form of payment and investment, with major companies like PayPal and Tesla accepting them as payment. Meanwhile, traditional financial institutions are also embracing technology in order to stay competitive. One of the biggest challenges facing businessesinsider and consumers in this changing landscape is cybersecurity.
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From "ownership" to "dive deep," these guidelines are designed to drive innovative thinking and quick action.

For those interested in working for Amazon, memorizing and using those principles is a key way to show you'd fit in the company culture.

Corey Salzer, a 24-year-old solutions architect who has been working at Amazon Web Services since August 2017, said that mentioning the principles in your résumé, cover letter, and interview was a major way to impress recruiters.

"One of the big things, I would say, is that Amazon really focuses on our leadership principles," Salzer told Business Insider.

"Memorizing them would definitely help [applicants], and being able to even use them in their language during the interviews," Salzer said.

For example: Use the leadership principle in its exact phrasing and connect it back to something you've done at a previous job, internship, or project.

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Instagram has banned one of its owner Facebook’s official marketing partners, San Francisco-based HYP3R, after “a combination of configuration errors and lax oversight” on its behalf allowed HYP3R to scrape massive amounts of data on Instagram users, Business Insider reported on Wednesday.

HYP3R, which has raised tens of millions of dollars in funding, relies on tracking social-media posts tagged in real-world locations, then allowing its marketing clients to interact with the users who uploaded them (say, to address complaints about service) or use that data for targeted advertising purposes.

But following the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal at Facebook in early 2018, Instagram began disabling some parts of its API—including location tools.

According to Business Insider, while HYP3R publicly supported the decision, it also created tools meant to continue scraping that data in ways that took advantage of Instagram’s sloppy implementation of the API rollbacks and sure look like violations of its terms of service.

Using that access, the company created geofenced locations ranging from stadiums to hotels, harvested “every public post tagged with that location on Instagram,” and stored them indefinitely.

It also built a tool to download Instagram Stories, which are supposed to auto-delete after 24 hours, from those locations and similarly store them forever.

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Instagram has kicked a marketing startup off its platform after determining it improperly collected user data.

The Facebook-owned social network sent Hyp3r took the action after finding the startup scraped public data such as users' physical locations, profile information and photos to serve better targeted ads.

Instagram sent a cease-and-desist letter to the San Francisco-based company on Wednesday after learning of the activity from Business Insider, which reported on the data collection earlier.

Information collected by Hyp3r included data stored in Instagram Stories, content designed to disappear after 24 hours and not available through the company's API.

"Hyp3r's actions were not sanctioned and violate our policies," an Instagram spokesperson said.

We've also made a product change that should help prevent other companies from scraping public location pages in this way."

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This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence Connectivity & Tech subscribers.

Samsung unveiled an array of new products at its Unpacked event in New York earlier this week, including a pair of new phones in its Galaxy Note series, a laptop, a new version of its smart pen, and special smartwatch variants (that build on a watch announced earlier this week).

Here are a few of the more interesting developments from that event.

Samsung partnered with Microsoft to bridge the gap between Windows and Android.

Microsoft will bundle its Your Phone app on the forthcoming Galaxy Note 10.

The photo gallery app on the Galaxy Note 10 will also sync to Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service, in a similar functionality to that which Google provides via its Photos app for its Pixel phones.

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You know what that means: WIRED is back in Las Vegas for the annual Black Hat and Defcon security conferences, where we’re digging into the latest and greatest hacks on display.

A researcher found it’s possible to break into one just by sending a text message.

To help uncover similar vulnerabilities in the future, Apple is handing out new, hacker-friendly iPhones to its favorite security researchers, and paying up to $1.5 million in bug bounties.

Boeing’s 787 jets might not be very secure, it turns out—Andy Greenberg talked to a security researcher who found multiple serious flaws in the code for one of the plane’s components.

Lily Hay Newman also looked at two very old bugs that have continued to persist, one in desk phones and another in a ubiquitous encryption algorithm.

Lastly, check out this very cool fake hospital, where real medical devices get hacked on purpose.

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In the dynamic landscape of modern business, where change is the only constant, the role of strategic planning emerges as a beacon guiding organizations toward long-term success. At the helm of this indispensable practice stands Corey Seaman, a visionary in business management renowned for his adeptness in strategic planning. With an illustrious career marked by transformative strategies, Seaman epitomizes the essence of forward-thinking leadership, propelling businesses toward sustainable growth and resilience. Central to Seaman's approach is the recognition that strategic planning is not a one-time endeavor but an ongoing journey. In essence, Corey Seaman's strategic planning prowess serves as a guiding light for businesses navigating the complexities of the modern marketplace.
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Are you a new business on a budget? Consider using different types of business signs. Draws attention, promotes business, enhances brand. Monument SignsMonument signs are bold ground-level structures at a property or business entrance that capture passersby’s attention. That’s where storefront signs come in!
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Geekz Snow 2019-08-09

In particular, the report highlights a strategy the company used to keep users from bankrupting it, by changing account passwords to prevent ticket purchases that might cost it money it didn’t have.

Business Insider’s report looks at how Ted Farnsworth, CEO of MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics, and MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe, transformed the company from a little-known subscription service to a nationwide sensation.

MoviePass has had an extremely rough couple of years, due in part to its buzzy $10-a-month fee it introduced back in the summer of 2017.

The change, which allowed subscribers to see a movie a day every day of the month for less than the price of an average ticket in most American cities, resulted in an explosion in popularity and exposure for MoviePass.

The report, however, outlines how the price drop was mainly a marketing tactic to generate headlines, and that it led to a surge in sign-ups the company could barely keep up with.

For example, MoviePass never anticipated the number of physical cards it needed, and its vendor ended up running out, leading to delays in on-boarding new users.

Geekz Snow 2019-08-08
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If your Google search results are seeming a bit stale today, you're not alone.

Google announced early Thursday morning that it was experiencing indexing issues on its search service, which affects new content from appearing in search results.

Similar indexing issues plagued the search giant earlier this year, as one in particular in April lasted for nearly an entire week.

Google said the issue impacted "some sites," though it did specify further on the scale of the problem.

At the time of writing this article, searching the name of major publications like the Washington Post and New York Times in Google News, the freshest articles returned are at least four hours old.

Some, on the first page of results, are from the prior day.

Compare Closing LLC 2021-06-22
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The average rates for fixed-rate mortgage loans rose since last week but they are still lower for fixed rates loans than they are for ARMs loans.Today the average rate of 30 years fixed mortgage rose to 3.54% with a 0.19% raise same time last week the rates were at 3.35%.The average rate of 15 years fixed mortgage today is at 2.59% which is 0.18% more than last weeks 2.41%The average rate of 7/1 ARM mortgage today stands at 4.05% rising by 0.03% the rate last week was at 4.02%Today the average rate of 10/1 ARM mortgage is at 3.33% which is 0.3% less than last weeks 3.63%The average mortgage rate of 30 years FHA is standing at 2.76% with a drop of 0.02% from 2.78% last week.And the average rate of VA mortgage loans today rose by 0.15% compared to last week from 2.70% is now standing at 2.85%.FOR THE CURRENT REFINANCE RATEToday the average rates for refinancing loans are almost all higher than for mortgage purchase loans, but they’re comparatively better than they were last week.

ARMs rates have dropped.Like mortgage purchase loans refinance ARMs are still higher than average rates for fixed-rate loans.The average rate for a 30 year fixed refinance today is 3.99% a rise of 0.25% from 3.74% last week.There is a rise of 0.2% in the average rate for a 15 year fixed refinance rate from 2.61 % last week to 2.81%.The average rate of 7/1 ARM refinance dropped today 0.14% from 4.17% last week it stands today at 4.03%The average rate of 10/1 ARM refinance dropped today 0.15% from 3.95% last week it stands today at 3.80%There is a drop of 0.01% in the average rate of 30 years FHA refinance from 2.80 to 2.79%And the average rate of VA mortgage loan refinances rose by 0.15% from 2.72% to 2.87%.Reference Source: Business Insiderhttps://www.compareclosing.com/mortgagenews/the-mortgage-rates-today/

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Ill-fated movie ticket subscription company MoviePass is the subject of a new editorial alleging that shady tactics took place behind closed doors.

Anonymous former MoviePass employees have claimed that among other things, the company had ordered that a small percentage of power users’ account passwords be changed so they couldn’t log into the app and order tickets.

MoviePass skyrocketed to attention with the launch of its entirely unsustainable $9.95/month subscription plan, which had at the time allowed customers to see a movie every single day of the month.

Though the plan succeeded in making the company viral, it also quickly drained its coffers, eventually resulting in an emergency loan and increasing restrictions.

According to Business Insider, which cites multiple unnamed alleged former MoviePass employees, the company engaged in questionable and controversial business tactics in an effort to stay afloat.

One of these alleged tactics, Business Insider claims, was ordering that the passwords of accounts belonging to a small number of power users be changed so they couldn’t order tickets.

Business Insider 2023-04-04
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n recent years, the global economy has undergone significant changes that have affected businessesinsider and consumers alike. In particular, the rise of digital platforms and online marketplaces has transformed the way that people buy and sell goods and services. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital currencies have gained mainstream acceptance as a viable form of payment and investment, with major companies like PayPal and Tesla accepting them as payment. Meanwhile, traditional financial institutions are also embracing technology in order to stay competitive. One of the biggest challenges facing businessesinsider and consumers in this changing landscape is cybersecurity.
Geekz Snow 2019-08-08
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Instagram has banned one of its owner Facebook’s official marketing partners, San Francisco-based HYP3R, after “a combination of configuration errors and lax oversight” on its behalf allowed HYP3R to scrape massive amounts of data on Instagram users, Business Insider reported on Wednesday.

HYP3R, which has raised tens of millions of dollars in funding, relies on tracking social-media posts tagged in real-world locations, then allowing its marketing clients to interact with the users who uploaded them (say, to address complaints about service) or use that data for targeted advertising purposes.

But following the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal at Facebook in early 2018, Instagram began disabling some parts of its API—including location tools.

According to Business Insider, while HYP3R publicly supported the decision, it also created tools meant to continue scraping that data in ways that took advantage of Instagram’s sloppy implementation of the API rollbacks and sure look like violations of its terms of service.

Using that access, the company created geofenced locations ranging from stadiums to hotels, harvested “every public post tagged with that location on Instagram,” and stored them indefinitely.

It also built a tool to download Instagram Stories, which are supposed to auto-delete after 24 hours, from those locations and similarly store them forever.

Geekz Snow 2019-08-09
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This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence Connectivity & Tech subscribers.

Samsung unveiled an array of new products at its Unpacked event in New York earlier this week, including a pair of new phones in its Galaxy Note series, a laptop, a new version of its smart pen, and special smartwatch variants (that build on a watch announced earlier this week).

Here are a few of the more interesting developments from that event.

Samsung partnered with Microsoft to bridge the gap between Windows and Android.

Microsoft will bundle its Your Phone app on the forthcoming Galaxy Note 10.

The photo gallery app on the Galaxy Note 10 will also sync to Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service, in a similar functionality to that which Google provides via its Photos app for its Pixel phones.

Corey Seaman 2d
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In the dynamic landscape of modern business, where change is the only constant, the role of strategic planning emerges as a beacon guiding organizations toward long-term success. At the helm of this indispensable practice stands Corey Seaman, a visionary in business management renowned for his adeptness in strategic planning. With an illustrious career marked by transformative strategies, Seaman epitomizes the essence of forward-thinking leadership, propelling businesses toward sustainable growth and resilience. Central to Seaman's approach is the recognition that strategic planning is not a one-time endeavor but an ongoing journey. In essence, Corey Seaman's strategic planning prowess serves as a guiding light for businesses navigating the complexities of the modern marketplace.
FinTech Buzz 2020-07-16
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Global investments company D1 Capital Partners L.P (D1) based out of the US, has announced that the firm has bought a stake in one of the leading British fintech firms – online money transfer financial service provider Transferwise.The fintech news space notes that D1 has purchased a $200 million stake in the fintech solutions star, Transferwise as a part of a secondary share sale in the previous week, that witnessed the value of the startup rise up to $5billion.

This soar was a $1.5 billion increase last year on this time and was around equal to £4 billion.Both these firms are fresh faces in the industry.Nine years ago, Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo KÀÀrmann had set up Transferwise.

Kristo was an Estonian financial consultant and Taavet, a former Skype employee.

Together they set up Transferwise as a fintech solution to solve the problem of international money transfer.

Since then, the firm has grown to be an offeror of more than 750 currency routes and also reached a respectable net profit of $8 billion in the year of 2018, as stated by Forbes.D1, the US hedge fund is relatively new and is getting started after its launch in 2018 by Daniel Sundheim, a Wall Street investor who formerly stood at the helm of Viking Global Investors, a hedge fund based out of Connecticut until 2017.

The budding company was deemed as ‘one of the hottest new hedge funds’ in the industry by Business Insider, last year.

Geekz Snow 2019-08-08
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The executive in charge of Google's Pixel smartphone division — Mario Queiroz — is moving to another role, working in "the office of the CEO".

Queiroz's move to work alongside Google CEO Sundar Pichai comes at a surprising time, as the highly anticipated Pixel 4 is expected to launch this fall.

Queiroz, who joined Google in 2005, has been involved in Google's hardware efforts for years.

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Just months ahead of the expected launch of its fourth-generation device, the person in charge of Google's Pixel smartphone division— Mario Queiroz — is reportedly leaving for another role internally at the tech giant.

The news came from an Axios report Thursday which said Queiroz — Pixel's top boss, who reported directly to Hardware VP Rick Osterloh — would be leaving his current post to "work in the office of CEO Sundar Pichai."

Compare Closing LLC 2021-10-25

The mortgage rates are low today.

There are two types of mortgage rates — fixed or adjustable.In a fixed-rate mortgage, the borrower’s rate remains the same for the entire length of their loan.In an adjustable-rate mortgage, the rates are locked for the first few years, and then it changes periodically.Over the past one month and more, the adjustable rates have started to go down hence compared to fixed rates they’re more competitive than they were in over a year.When applying for a mortgage, borrowers may want to look at the fixed-rate as well as the adjustable-rate options.Earlier in 2021, the adjustable rates were higher than the 30-year fixed rates but now they are gradually going down.The average rate of 30 years fixed mortgage today is 3.59%Today’s 15 years fixed average rate is 2.62%The 7/1 ARM average rate today is 2.71%The 10/1 Average ARM rate is 3.94%The average rate for 30 years FHA is 2.72%The 30 years fixed mortgage refinance rate today is at 3.70%The average refinance rate for 15 years fixed today is 2.74%The average rate of 7/1 ARM today is 3.80%Today’s average rate for the 10/1 ARM is 4.24%Reference Source: Business Insiderhttps://www.compareclosing.com/mortgagenews/arms-rate-falling/

Geekz Snow 2019-08-09
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MoviePass, the $10-a-month movie subscription service that once dominated the industry, has been hit with financial issues that essentially brought an end to the company as we knew it.

Some of the ways it dealt with those issues included changing some users' passwords to keep them from ordering tickets, according to a Business Insider report this week.

Because MoviePass's business model essentially involved paying theaters the full price for customers' tickets, the company was quickly losing money, according to the report.

CEO Mitch Lowe reportedly became frustrated with subscribers who took advantage of the low monthly rate by going to the movies every day, and ordered the company limit subscriber access before the April 2018 release of Avengers: Infinity War.

Lowe called for the passwords for a "small percentage of power users be changed," which would keep them from going into the MoviePass app and ordering tickets, according to Business Insider.

By the end of July 2018, the company was losing around $40 million a month, and on July 26 it ran out of money to put on MoviePass cards, Business Insider says.

Geekz Snow 2019-08-09
img

From "ownership" to "dive deep," these guidelines are designed to drive innovative thinking and quick action.

For those interested in working for Amazon, memorizing and using those principles is a key way to show you'd fit in the company culture.

Corey Salzer, a 24-year-old solutions architect who has been working at Amazon Web Services since August 2017, said that mentioning the principles in your résumé, cover letter, and interview was a major way to impress recruiters.

"One of the big things, I would say, is that Amazon really focuses on our leadership principles," Salzer told Business Insider.

"Memorizing them would definitely help [applicants], and being able to even use them in their language during the interviews," Salzer said.

For example: Use the leadership principle in its exact phrasing and connect it back to something you've done at a previous job, internship, or project.

Geekz Snow 2019-08-08
img

Instagram has kicked a marketing startup off its platform after determining it improperly collected user data.

The Facebook-owned social network sent Hyp3r took the action after finding the startup scraped public data such as users' physical locations, profile information and photos to serve better targeted ads.

Instagram sent a cease-and-desist letter to the San Francisco-based company on Wednesday after learning of the activity from Business Insider, which reported on the data collection earlier.

Information collected by Hyp3r included data stored in Instagram Stories, content designed to disappear after 24 hours and not available through the company's API.

"Hyp3r's actions were not sanctioned and violate our policies," an Instagram spokesperson said.

We've also made a product change that should help prevent other companies from scraping public location pages in this way."

Geekz Snow 2019-08-10
img

You know what that means: WIRED is back in Las Vegas for the annual Black Hat and Defcon security conferences, where we’re digging into the latest and greatest hacks on display.

A researcher found it’s possible to break into one just by sending a text message.

To help uncover similar vulnerabilities in the future, Apple is handing out new, hacker-friendly iPhones to its favorite security researchers, and paying up to $1.5 million in bug bounties.

Boeing’s 787 jets might not be very secure, it turns out—Andy Greenberg talked to a security researcher who found multiple serious flaws in the code for one of the plane’s components.

Lily Hay Newman also looked at two very old bugs that have continued to persist, one in desk phones and another in a ubiquitous encryption algorithm.

Lastly, check out this very cool fake hospital, where real medical devices get hacked on purpose.

William Powell 23h
img
Are you a new business on a budget? Consider using different types of business signs. Draws attention, promotes business, enhances brand. Monument SignsMonument signs are bold ground-level structures at a property or business entrance that capture passersby’s attention. That’s where storefront signs come in!
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