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Unemployment Rates Climb, Wall Street Closes Lower

tarabird/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — After consecutive sessions of gains, Wall Street closed slightly lower on Thursday, after new Labor Department data showed higher levels of unemployment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 36.87 on Thursday, closing Read More

How to Hide Your Location on Facebook Messenger

Photo by: Newscast/UIG via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Every step you take, every move you make, your friends may be watching you, thanks to a new Chrome extension that can track a user’s location based on Facebook Messenger. Aran Khanna, a computer science and Read More

Chobani CEO To Give Away Half His Fortune

DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Yogurt mogul Hamdi Ulukaya is giving away his fortune. Most of it, anyway. The Turkish immigrant behind the Chobani brand has made billions popularizing greek-style yogurt with Americans. He’s worth an estimated 1.4 Read More

Weekly Jobless Claims Shoot Up to 282,000

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Jobless claims continued to climb last week, increasing by 7,000, according to the latest figures released Thursday by the Labor Department. For the week ending May 23, the number of people filing for benefits shot up to 282,000. Read More

SkyMall Catalog to Return to Planes Later this Year

SkyMall(NEW YORK) — SkyMall was the quirky catalog most commonly found on airplanes before the company declared bankruptcy in January. This week, its new owner since April is declaring “SkyMall is back.” C&A Marketing, based in New Jersey, purchased Read More