Instagram Stories Just Got Way Easier to Mass Upload

Instagram announced it's adding a few new features to make it easier to post stories. Now users can upload multiple photos and videos at once, making it faster to share and post. You can still edit your photos and videos individually to make sure they appear just the way you want them to. You'll also get
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Kids are easy targets for identity thieves — and they're becoming more common ones, as well. A new report from Javelin Strategy & Research says that in 2017, more than 1 million children in the United States were victims of identity theft, resulting in $2.6 billion in losses. Families paid an estimated
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All VA loans are not the same. Yes, the mortgage program is administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs with consistent guidelines and among the most favorable terms, but the actual terms of loans are filtered through local lenders. And every lender has unique business expenses, profit targets
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On Monday morning, Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William, gave birth to another child, aka royal baby number three. The baby boy was safely delivered in the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital in London, the kind of private, luxurious medical facility one might expect
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JPMorgan estimates the 10-year yield will end 2018 at 3.15 percent, the same as the median forecast of 56 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Indeed, the last time the 10-year yield topped 3 percent, toward the end of the bond-market wipeout known as the “taper tantrum,” Treasuries went on to rally
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Real estate stocks, including real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the related exchange traded funds, are viewed as rate-sensitive assets. … unlike other real assets provide long term fixed cash flow and the shorter duration end of the market provides lower volatility and lower sensitivity to rising rates
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Massive Attack's Mezzanine is a classic electronic music album. It's also now 20 years old and, to celebrate that fact, the British trip-hop act is having it preserved using a deeply unconventional technique. While CDs only last a few decades, DNA—yes, the same stuff that contains our genetic
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Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is nearing a preliminary agreement to acquire Shire Plc after the Japanese drugmaker sweetened its roughly $60 billion bid for the biotechnology company, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The two companies have been working on a tentative agreement on
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Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. has expanded its underwriting support of real estate transactions closed completely online to an additional four states and the District of Columbia. Westcor now underwrites such transactions to 20 states plus the District of Columbia. Read on to learn which company
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Still, Mr Murley acknowledged that increased flooding and other types of extreme weather would have some effect on real estate trends – the question is what. “I don't know where all this plays out,” he said. Mr Keenan said he doesn't expect places like Miami Beach and Key Biscayne to become poorer;
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CHICAGO–A typical client for Nicholas Bartzen, an associate with Levenfeld Pearlstein's Community Association Group, would be a condominium representative whose building has anywhere from four to 500 units and whose board has a question that needs to be responded to quickly. The answer can
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Sean Hannity's secretive real-estate venture has been linked to a property dealer who was previously convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges for his role in a scheme to rig auctions on foreclosed properties, The Guardian reports. Documents tying the Fox News host to a group of shell companies that
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Synovus Financial in Columbus, Ga., beat earnings expectations in the first quarter as it continued to reap the rewards of its strategic decisions to branch out in consumer lending and scale back its commercial real estate lending. The $31.5 billion-asset company said Tuesday that its net income
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On April 13, 2018, Freddie Mac announced the pricing of $503 million in Multifamily SB Certificates, their fourth multifamily mortgage-backed SB Certificate Transaction of 2018 (SB48), underwritten by Freddie and issued by a third-party trust. The SB48 certificate is comprised of small balance loans
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“As Center City Settlement Services continues to grow, I am confident that Toby can positively manage and lead this office,” Title Alliance Pennsylvania State Manager Michelle Rist said in a release. “His leadership, passion, and experience allow us to utilize his understanding of title insurance and I'm
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The report, www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/research-reports/realtors-and-sustainability, which stems from NAR's Sustainability Program, surveyed Realtors® about sustainability issues in the residential and commercial real estate markets and the preferences they are seeing in consumers in their
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That's a very slight improvement for mortgage rates. We have moved during the last week from “extreme fear” to mere “fear.” Moving into a less fearful state is usually bad for rates. “Fearful” investors generally push bond prices up (and interest rates down) as they leave the stock market and move into
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He added that the company had designed both “Wadi Al Riffa” and “Hasabi” based on market research that aimed to determine the requirements to fulfill the ambitions of modern Bahraini Families in light of the most recent real estate and housing market trends of which ensure both social and
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Bloomberg Prophets. Professionals offering actionable insights on markets, the economy and monetary policy. Contributors may have a stake in the areas they write about. To contact the author of this story: Jason Schenker at jasonschenker@prestigeeconomics.com. To contact the editor responsible for
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DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CF Real Estate Services (CF) is expanding its property management platform in major metropolitan markets across Texas with the announcement today of five signature property additions in the Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio markets. These new management
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