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  • A specialist trader is reflected on his screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange August 25, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

    Wall Street Looks to Critical March Jobs Report

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    A truckload of data will hit markets in the coming week, but it's the jobs report Friday when Wall Street is closed that will be the most important and possibly have the most lasting impact. The...

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    The Secret Success of Today’s Biohackers

    By Ellen Jorgensen, Techonomy

    In a laboratory in New York City, molecular biologist Roy Buchanan is finishing up at the bench for the day. It is eight o’clock in the evening, and while late night work is a familiar scenario for...

  • Stocks Have Scores of Reasons for New Volatility

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    Stocks, stuck in their own zigzag pattern, remain vulnerable to the whims of unusually volatile currencies in the week ahead. As financial markets adjust to the Fed's latest guidance on rates,...

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees work during a guided media tour inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia in this file photo taken on June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Hack Attacks Mean More Cyber Firms Will Go Public

    By Liana B. Baker, Reuters

    Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are joining a growing list of cybersecurity firms planning to go public in 2015 to capitalize on investor interest following a spate of hacker attacks, according to...

  • Why the Military Wants to Restore Your Online Privacy

    By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

    The average, technologically connected American worker produces some 5,000 megabytes of digital data a day, enough to fill nine CD-ROMs. Only a small fraction of it is stored permanently or is...

  • States Have a Great New Weapon Against Fraud: Big Data

    By Jeffrey Stinson, Stateline

    Indiana began a big crackdown on identity crooks this year and the results are startling: The state has saved Hoosier taxpayers $85 million so far by not paying out bogus tax refunds. The savings...

  • Eliminating banks as middle men for federally guaranteed college loans will save $68 billion over the next 11 years.

    College Accounts Are Latest Target of ID Thieves

    By Zachary Fagenson, Reuters

    U.S. law-enforcement officials on Tuesday arrested 17 people accused of trying to collect almost $2 million in bogus tax refunds using college student accounts, the latest identity scam to defraud...

  • How Facebook Is Moving into Your Workspace

    By Julia Boorstin, CNBC

    Facebook is piloting an enterprise solution that helps employees collaborate, using newsfeed, groups, messaging, sharing of documents, sources tell CNBC. The company officially declined to comment on...

  • Be a Great Hacker, Get a Great Job

    By Mary Thompson, CNBC

    At the Money 2020 Hackathon in Las Vegas, there's more than just the $125,000 in prize money at stake. Winners here may also land a job with one of the hackathon's sponsors PayPal. "They get to learn...

  • Why Your State May Have Just Lost Its Top IT Officer

    By Jeffrey Stinson, Stateline

    Another shake-up is underway in what’s become one of the most crucial jobs in state government: the top information technology officer. Chief information officers (CIOs) in five states—Arkansas,...