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Posted on Monday, 28th November 2011 by Nate Sawers

PawnUp.com, Canada’s first full-scale online pawn shop receives $250,000 in venture capital funding after the initial angel investment made in the second quarter of 2011.

This windfall is the first of a series of investments planned for 2012 – 2013. The additional funds will allow the company to continue their rapid expansion throughout Canada, increasing awareness about the new, revolutionary way of getting cash loans and selling items online.

Earlier this year PawnUp.com introduced a new concept to the Canadian secured loans industry: a fully operational online pawn shop. Upon completion of a brief online application form, customers get a free evaluation of their items , and are given a quote for a loan or a price for sale. PawnUp.com transforms the traditional pawn shop model by providing safe, discreet, and convenient access to quick cash.

Customers can loan against or sell their items without ever having to leave home. P

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Posted on Monday, 28th November 2011 by Admin

According to the federal law of the US government, a person is eligible for getting a truly free credit report from each of the credit reporting agencies. The three major credit reporting agencies are: Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. You can get a free instant credit report each year from them. Through online, you can get those reports. There are so many sites which provide the proper guidelines on them about how to get them online. Go through them to get the perfect information about them.

The credit bureaus contain a fair lot of information about you. However, the personal information of you is kept completely confidential. The lender only can see the information they require for granting the loan. The credit info bureaus collect and sell the following information to potential lenders:

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Posted on Friday, 25th November 2011 by Nate Sawers

It’s been a rough few weeks for the Eurozone.

Portugal is still in trouble, Spain will be back on the coals after its elections, and if I were a bond trader, I would be shorting Belgium, which has serious deficit and debt problems, runs for months at a time without a government and is in some danger of splitting apart into its French and Flemish bits.

A bailout package for Greece has been agreed to, but the Greeks are struggling to get a government to implement it. And yields on Italian bonds are moving ominously higher, rising above the 7% that some think marks a point of no return.

So does this mean that a euro breakup and a Eurozone economic collapse are inevitable?

Not really.

In fact, of all the European nations in crisis, only Italy has the potential to take down either the euro or the global economy.

Just take a look for yourself. Read more…

Tags: Euro, Euro Meltdown
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd November 2011 by Archie Norton

Helping people recover from identity theft is a rewarding job, according the the people who work in the ITAC call center. Theyve heard it all   deployed soldiers victimized, sick parents victimized by their children, really awful stories.  Watch this two-minute video of ITAC agents explaining what they do and why they love their jobs.

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Posted on Thursday, 17th November 2011 by Archie Norton

A server at Virginia Commonwealth University was recently hacked, exposing personal information on more than 176,000 current and former VCU and VCU Health System faculty, staff, students and affiliates.

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) released a statement regarding the incident.  The university determined that the breach occurred on October 24th, when officials found suspicious files during a routine server inspection.

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Posted on Monday, 14th November 2011 by Nate Sawers

Solar companies’ share prices have collapsed during 2011, largely because of two major factors. First, solar industry fundamentals have been deteriorating and are now as weak as they’ve been in years. Industry supply has overshot demand by a wide margin in the past few quarters, resulting in a collapse in pricing and margins and balance sheet degradation. One boost many hoped for was the normally strong late summer/early fall rush in Germany, but this failed to materialize. Second, overall stock market volatility has increased, which is causing extreme movements in the always volatile solar shares. This will remain the case so long as the market continues to shy away from risk. Given the very weak industry conditions, share prices could be detached from underlying valuations for a while to come. We would avoid investing in solar firms right now, with the exception of First Solar (FSLR). Read more…

Tags: Solar, Solar Downturn
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