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Online attack cripples U.S. court system
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KPMG pays $8.2 million to settle SEC charges
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JPMorgan gives Jamie Dimon a 74 percent raise
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Moody’s just downgraded the health insurance industry. Obamacare was part of the reason.
“We don’t know if they’re hitting their targets, but we do know that if there is an older, less healthy population, then clearly the rates are going to be pressured upward.“
How much can you charge to insure a $1 billion prize?
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Yahoo tweeted about the Gmail outage -- four times in a row.
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Some of the biggest names in cryptography condemn NSA in open letter
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