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Mortgage foreclosure settlement In a historic deal after repeated delays and over a year of negotiations, the Justice Department, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 49 state attorneys general has finalized a $26 billion civil settlement with five of the largest mortgage lenders for wrongful foreclosures through robo-signing wherein homes were foreclosed upon without human review or proper [...]
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Trulia Local released Today, real estate search site Trulia is announcing the final destination of several projects coming together, like hourly crime reporting in the form of Trulia Local which is a “layered map” that provides a visual representation of a county, a city, a neighborhood and even down to a block-by-block view of an area to answer the “what [...]
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Cloud app for business Let’s face it, as a small business, entrepreneur or startup team, measuring, planning for and executing business is difficult, and Excel can be downright frustrating and requires a lot of knowledge to get set up and running. New York City based Profitably automates a great deal of this process to save you time and money and [...]
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IDAPT universal charger As demonstrated in the video above, Barcelona-based tech company, IDAPT offers a line of universal charging stations at surprisingly reasonable rates that accommodate over 4,500 gadgets, eliminating the inevitable cord clutter. Managing devices has become a tremendous hassle, especially with the rise of people owning multiple devices – a 2011 study revealed that Android users are likely [...]
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A shift in foreclosures CoreLogic released its first national Foreclosure Report which provides monthly data on completed foreclosures, foreclosure inventory and 90+ delinquency rates, reporting that completed foreclosures for all of 2011 totaled 830,000 compared with 1.1 million in 2010. CoreLogic notes that since September 2008, there have been approximately 3.2 million completed foreclosures. Completed foreclosures fell from November (57,000) [...]
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Canadian MLS Home Price Index Canadian home buyers, sellers and Realtors are now being served by the newly launched Canadian Multiple Listing Service (MLS) Home Price Index (HPI) across Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Although Fraser Valley and Greater Vancouver have had an HPI in place since the mid-1990s, this is the first HPI available for the [...]
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Instagram for video If you’re a fan of Instagram and how you can basically give your photos an entirely new feeling by using different filters, you’ll love the Viddy mobile app. Viddy is essentially the Instagram of video. Viddy allows you to take 15-second videos of your life and share them with friends and family on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or [...]
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Free quality Android apps don’t come around as often as you may hope. And a lot of the time you have to sift through ridiculous and unrelated apps to find the one that matches your professional needs. So, we’ve done the work for you so you can spend your valuable time elsewhere. Here are seven newly-free Android apps that can [...]
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Follow your dreams? Maybe, maybe not… We’ve all heard it since we were young—follow your dreams! While this can be applied to most areas of life, it is also applicable to your business success. But it’s more than just following your dreams. It’s also about tapping into your passions and using it as motivation, direction, and inspiration. Here are ten [...]
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Kick starting with capital In the present business climate, it is very difficult to get a business started without capital – either from the founders themselves, friends and/or family, or outside investors. Most entrepreneurs know that at some point(s), fundraising will be an important part of their role. What many don’t know, however, is what the process is like and [...]
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