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By Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen and Angus Berwick (Reuters) -FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors on Monday, the day before he was due to testify before Congress about the abrupt failure last month of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The arrest marks a stunning fall from grace for the 30-year-old entrepreneur who rode a boom in bitcoin and other digital assets to become a billionaire many times over until FTX’s rapid… Source link

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations, state attorneys general announced Monday. The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called “location history.” The attorneys general… Source link

BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google could face EU antitrust charges next year over its digital advertising business, putting the company at risk of its fourth fine in the EU of more than a billion euros, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Google’s ad business, which generated over $100 billion in sales last year, is Alphabet’s biggest moneymaker. It accounted for about 80% of annual revenue, despite efforts over the past decade to push into selling… Source link

MARTINSVILLE — Check your bank statements. A scam involving unauthorized Google charges is hitting bank accounts across the country including right here in Indiana. A Martinsville woman contacted WRTV Investigates for help. The charges are totally bogus but appear to be coming from Google and Google Play, and typically there’s more than one on your credit or debit card. Anita Caincross of Martinsville went out to dinner with a friend, and when she went to pay with her debit card, it would… Source link

The opinion of the official journalist Lazaro Manuel Alonso on the sale of foreign currency in the exchange houses (CADECA)published the day before on social networks, provoked an angry response from the banking institution on Wednesday. After starting on Monday the sale of dollars to natural persons in Cubaat a rate of 123.60 Cuban pesos per US dollar, Alonso said that the challenge of the foreign exchange market, as it is being implemented, lies in the transparency of the process.

Former NFL first-round pick Damon Arnette is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. Arnette, 25, was arrested early Tuesday morning in Miami Beach, Florida, after police found “a cocaine-like substance in his pocket” after he was pulled over, according to police documents obtained TMZ Sports and multiple local news outlets. This was the second time Arnette had been pulled over in one night, per TMZ, after police initially issued him a citation for driving with a suspended license late… Source link

A new Google Maps feature that estimates the amount you’ll have to pay in tolls to drive a given route has started appearing in the Android and iOS apps, according to Google. Android Police reports seeing the new toll pricing in the app, though it’s not yet visible on a pair of devices we’ve tried along the same route. The toll feature was first announced by Google in April. Google says that displayed toll pricing is based on “trusted information from local tolling authorities,”… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Few companies are better positioned to benefit from the crippling shortage of computer chips than ASML Holding NV, a Dutch manufacturer whose equipment plays an integral role in making the world’s most advanced semiconductors. Most Read from Bloomberg But four lines tucked halfway into an otherwise upbeat, 281-page annual report from February hinted at a potentially incendiary problem. ASML accused a Beijing-based firm, regarded by Chinese officials as one of the country’s… Source link

PHOENIX — Why are bogus Google charges still ending up on credit card accounts across the country? What’s being done about it? We’ve been asking Google and the banks for months. Yet, the scam continues affecting more people. And some of them say they’re having a hard time getting these fake charges removed. “I looked at the balance and was like ‘what’,” says Jeannine Gailey. It’s her Citibank card balance and it’s much higher than what she expected. “I knew I hadn’t spent much money… As I… Source link

If you haven’t checked your bank statements closely lately, you should do it now. Unauthorized Google charges are appearing on Chase Visa statements. And while there are different accounts, all charges are for the same odd amount, $13.01. Beth emailed that her account had three of those charges all saying Google. “My card has been linked to Google Chrome and Google Play,” she says. But none of those charges were authorized. Not all of the cards affected were even attached to Google accounts. And… Source link