Marketplace for Monday, January 30, 2012

Segments From This Episode

• Big email companies and online bankers fight phishing

  by Jennifer Collins

  Tech companies Google, Yahoo, Microsoft are teaming up with financial institutions to launch a project to stem the tide of email phishing or malicious spam offers flooding inboxes and destroying trust in email.

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• Florida gets more jobs, but maybe not the right kind

  by Kenny Malone

  Florida has long relied on tourism to drive its economy, but the state wants more technology firms and other skilled jobs.

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• Megaupload case exposes cloud computing risks

  by Bob Moon

  Users of blocked file-sharing site Megaupload could have their photos and personal documents purged. How safe is it to store data in the cloud?

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• How Google searches are leading economic indicators

  by Marketplace Contributor

  Behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how data from your online searches can help not just advertisers, but also economists in researching the state of the economy.

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• WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to appear on ‘The Simpsons’

  by Kai Ryssdal

  It wasn't so easy to get the controversial figure on the show, though.

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• On the agenda at this week’s European summit

  Indeed, European leaders are meeting once again to discuss the European Union debt crisis, but there will also be talk of economic growth and job creation.

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• A history of American borrowing

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Borrowing wasn't always thought of as an abstract, impersonal concept. Author Louis Hyman discusses the history of borrowing and his new book, "Borrow: The American Way of Debt."

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