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Apple has learned from enough games of Monopoly that it’s good to be the banker as well as a player. From a report: A Monday report from Forbes based on anonymous internal sources claims users deposited close to $1 billion in just four days after Apple…
The BBC looks at free websites like TimeRepublik, “which describes itself as ‘a timebank for the internet era’.”
Time banking is in essence a more sophisticated form of bartering. You don’t pay someone in money for a job that they do for you. Instead …
SYDNEY (Reuters) — Currencies were in limbo on Monday as holidays in most of Asia made for thin trading, while traders braced for a packed week of central bank meetings that would offer the latest guidance on future rate hikes across continents. Activ…
Households with analogue meters have until 30 June to claim discounts of up to £400 on energy costsMinisters have urged households using prepayment meters to redeem vouchers offering support for their energy bills, as the government said £160m remained…
Average of £224,963 for homes with one or two bedrooms is 2% higher than a year ago, says RightmoveThose people hoping to get on to the UK housing ladder are facing record asking prices, as calm returns to the sector after last autumn’s mini-budget spo…
Report shows government plan for targeted help would fail to reach homes not registered for benefitsThe energy regulator Ofgem will on Monday call for vulnerable households to be better protected through a new universal priority services register, as r…
It was a mix of spiritualism and financial education, remembers one patron of Generación Zoe, which “pitched itself as an ‘educational and resource-creating community for personal, professional, financial and spiritual development,'” reports Res…
In the U.S., at least three early candidates for president from both parties “want to make it clear they would not support any proposals for a central bank-backed digital US dollar,” reports Bloomberg — which may be a little premature, because “A…
Cory Doctorow just wrote a new thriller “about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works,” according to his publisher. Doctorow calls Red Team Blues “a book about the financial rot at the center of Silicon Valley… …
Expectant mothers are entitled to free medication, but errors and red tape in applying for maternity exemption certificates leave many with bills of hundreds of poundsA woman who suffered a miscarriage has been fined by the NHS for claiming a free pres…