Personal Loans Online — How Peer-to-Peer Lending Is Changing the Game

I’ve never met Imelda. The mother of three lives in Garcia-Hernandez, Philippines and owns a transportation business with her husband. Together, they own a ‘motorella’; an interesting hybrid between a taxi and a rickshaw which her husband uses to ferry locals around. She was looking for a loan of 7000 Philippine Pesos (about $175 US dollars) to buy tires, motor oil, and gasoline. Her motivations for seeking this loan should be familiar to any parent: She hopes to make a good profit out of her business so she can support her children’s needs. Her profit will be for school fees...

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Where Can You Find Reliable Medical Advice Online?

We all know the routine, you feel a bit under the weather and you quickly fire up Google, type in your symptoms and hit search. You quickly scan the search results, open a couple of webpages and within minutes you come up with several illness possibilities, some highly unlikely. Online self-diagnosis is extremely unreliable. Any doctor you speak to will strongly advise against self-diagnosis via Google, Yahoo Answers and similar sites. The safer approach is to make your way to your local clinic and get yourself examined by a licensed medical practitioner. But, most people will avoid making a trip...

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Windows XP Lives, iPhone Catches Fire, Selfie Secures Sitcom [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Windows XP refuses to die, Yahoo explores new search options, an iPhone catches fire and burns a teenage girl, indie developers fight back against King’s ‘Candy’ trademark, and ABC orders a TV pilot based solely on selfies. Windows XP Refuses To Die Bill Gates just broke into Microsoft offices and released Windows XP Service Pack 4 and extended support to 2016. #SeattleRiot — Chris Bannon (@b4nn0n) February 3, 2014 Despite pleas from Microsoft for people to move onwards and upwards, Windows XP refuses to die. The latest figures from Net Applications (as reported by CNET)...

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Windows XP Lives, iPhone Catches Fire, Selfie Secures Sitcom [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Windows XP refuses to die, Yahoo explores new search options, an iPhone catches fire and burns a teenage girl, indie developers fight back against King’s ‘Candy’ trademark, and ABC orders a TV pilot based solely on selfies. Windows XP Refuses To Die Bill Gates just broke into Microsoft offices and released Windows XP Service Pack 4 and extended support to 2016. #SeattleRiot — Chris Bannon (@b4nn0n) February 3, 2014 Despite pleas from Microsoft for people to move onwards and upwards, Windows XP refuses to die. The latest figures from Net Applications (as reported by CNET)...

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