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The era of free checking that dominated U.S. retail banking in the last decade is quickly fading away.
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Checking into certain bars in the U.S. with two other Facebook friends will grant one five free MP3s from Universal Music Group.
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The top five tablet activities, based on a survey of users in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, are checking email (81 percent), reading the news (69 percent), checking the weather forecast (63 percent), social networking (62 percent) and gaming (60 percent).
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E-Verify, which attempts to screen out unauthorized immigrants by checking employees against federal databases, failed his daughter, a U.S. citizen.
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Savings are when you put your money in checking accounts, savings accounts, certificate of deposits, money market accounts, U.S. Savings Bonds, etc.
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And that's a problem, considering the results of the Mobile Mindset Study, a recent survey that found three out of five U.S. smartphone users don't go more than hour without checking their gadgets.
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Facebook was the most popular mobile app across platforms in 2012 in the U.S. according to comScore, and in January more people were checking Facebook on their mobile devices than desktop computers for the first time.
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Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, said in Washington that the agency was checking whether the previous battery incidents had been reported by Boeing.
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Bank of America, the largest U.S. debit card issuer, will no longer allow consumers to overdraw their checking accounts using a debit card.
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Bank of America, the largest bank in the U.S. based on the level of deposits, is testing a new fee structure for its checking account service which used to be free.
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