People walk past the Public Credit Information Service Hall in Suzhou, China, on May 6, 2019. Suzhou was one of several places chosen in 2018 by the Chinese government to run a social credit trial, which can reward or punish citizens for their behavior. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Chinese government is
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The silhouettes of attendees are seen at the Google booth during the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Alphabet rose 9% in extended trading after the Google-parent company reported second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s
If you use Robinhood to trade stocks, you might want to consider changing your password. The popular stock-trading app emailed some of its users Wednesday to warn that private log-ins were stored in an unsecured way. These passwords were kept in an internal company log in “plaintext,” meaning they were not encrypted because of a
Employees have lunch at the canteen at Facebook’s new headquarters, designed by Canadian-born American architect Frank Gehry, at Rathbone Place in central London on December 4, 2017. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Facebook jumped 3.5% in after-hours trading, before falling into the
The PayPal application on an Apple iPhone. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of PayPal fell as much as 6% in after-hours trading after the payments giant missed Wall Street’s estimates for second-quarter revenue and lowered its full-year guidance. PayPal’s revenue for the quarter rose to $4.31 billion, up 12% from a year