{"id":9592,"date":"2012-04-03T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/banking-shopping-and-job-hunting-online\/"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:48:20","slug":"banking-shopping-and-job-hunting-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/banking-shopping-and-job-hunting-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking, shopping and job hunting online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Swedes biggest online bankers<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Poles search most on web for jobs<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Shopping on Internet popular in Germany, Britain<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Patricia Reaney<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Banking and keeping track of<br \/>\nfinances, shopping and searching for jobs are the main tasks of<br \/>\nInternet users around the globe, according to a new<br \/>\ninternational survey.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 60 percent of people in 24 countries used the web to<br \/>\ncheck their bank account and other financial assets in the past<br \/>\n90 days, making it the most popular use of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shopping was not far behind at 48 percent, the Ipsos poll<br \/>\nfor Reuters showed, and 41 percent went online in search of a<br \/>\njob.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is easy. You can do it any time of the day and most of<br \/>\nthe transactions don&#8217;t have fees,&#8221; said Keren Gottfried,<br \/>\nresearch manager for Ipsos Global Public Affairs, about banking<br \/>\nonline.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swedes were the biggest online bankers with almost 90<br \/>\npercent of adults using e-banking. But it has also caught on in<br \/>\na big way in France, Canada, Australia, Poland, South Africa and<br \/>\nBelgium, where about 75 percent of people bank online.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Swedes biggest online bankers * Poles search most on web for jobs * Shopping on Internet popular in Germany, Britain By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Banking and keeping track of finances, shopping and searching for jobs are the main tasks of Internet users around the globe, according to a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}