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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

The SEC says First American derives nearly 92 percent of its revenue from its title insurance segment, earning $7.1 Title insurance protects homebuyers from the prospect of someone contesting their legitimacy as the new homeowner. Title insurance is not mandated by law, but most lenders require it as part of any mortgage transaction.

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Looking for a needle in a haystack couldn’t be easier!

CGI

Mon, 02/11/2013 - 07:00. Challenges include: Trawling, aggregating and mining of data, entity extraction to understand what the data actually is, Visualisation and Natural Language analytics, especially multi language. Challenges include: Tagging the information, its source and its provenance, Data mining and visualisation.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I would never want to live in any of our properties we bought as investments.

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