bank accounts

Dwolla has been grabbing attention for its next-generation payment system that bypasses credit card networks and connects directly into bank accounts.

It's been on a roll and now investors have lined up behind the start-up, to the tune of $5 million in a Series B round.

According to the survey, nearly one in five consumers who own both an iPad and an iPhone believe that it's more difficult to switch smartphones than it is to change bank accounts, gas companies, or electric providers.

A cache of stolen data gathered from a botnet that has been quietly sweeping up information for years contained the user names and passwords for 8,485 bank accounts.