Topic: Experian Group Ltd.
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The Simple Dollar
Know your credit report, and what it means
Forget those goofy commercials. You can get your credit report (really) for free from the federal government. When you get it, it’s important to make sure that the information on your credit report is accurate and represents a good picture of your financial history.
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Credit card hacked? Four steps to take.
Credit card hackers can send sophisticated looking e-mails and make small purchases on credit cards to test if you're watching closely.
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New consumer agency targets debt collectors. Who can argue with that?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which faces stiff GOP opposition, picks what may be politically palatable targets for regulation: debt collectors and the credit-rating industry.
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The New Economy
Does Suze Orman’s prepaid card solve anything?
Released with great fanfare, The Approved Card from Suze Orman is supposed to help people who use cash responsibly get a good credit score. But it doesn't – and probably never will.
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10 most-visited websites of 2011
Google and Facebook reign among this year's top websites.
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Credit scores will get more personal
Credit scores will include estimates of annual income. FICO is developing separate credit scores to incorporate any payday loans, evictions, and child support payments.
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Horizons
Bing is more accurate than Google, report shows. Does it matter?
Bing and Yahoo are more successful at generating solid search results than Google, one firm says.
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The Circle Bastiat
Peer-to-peer lending grows
Individuals and small businesses are increasingly turning to peer-to-peer lending websites since it can be difficult to get a bank loan
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How Twitter is upending British privacy laws
While extreme gag orders, or 'super injunctions,' often keep the British press from airing the private details of celebrities' court cases, they haven't yet been able to quiet the Twitterati.
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Auto loans: Return of the subprime borrower
Auto loans to people with less-than-stellar credit rose 8 percent last quarter, the first annual rise in three years.
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The Simple Dollar
Refinancing an underwater mortgage?
Refinancing a mortgage (question 3) and getting out from under backbreaking student loans (question 9) feature in today's reader mailbag.
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Horizons
Twitter traffic gets major boost from Google
Twitter has benefited from the 2009 launch of Google's real-time search function, one new study shows.
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Should you get an extended warranty on gadgets?
Extended warranty coverage is good only sometimes.
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New car loans stretch to greater lengths
More buyers finance for six, even seven years – a risky move given how quickly some cars depreciate.
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