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I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. First, New York's attorney general is suing the company that runs the Zell payment platform, alleging its customers were left open to fraudsters who stole millions.

Nancy Marshall-Genzor reports.

New York Attorney General Leticiaia James sued early warning services, the company that developed and

operates Zell. Early warning services is owned by some of the biggest banks in the country.

James says Zell was hastily launched to compete with other payment apps like PayPal and didn't

have critical safety features.

The Attorney General says Zell had a simple registration process that didn't have important

verification steps. James says scammers took advantage of that, accessing users'

Zell accounts and making unauthorized transfers or tricking consumers into sending money for non-existent goods

or services. The Attorney General says scammers stole more than a billion dollars from Zell users

from 2017 to 2023. In a statement to Reuters, Zell says more than 99% of the transactions on

its platform are now completed without reported fraud, calling the lawsuit a political stunt.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

Kodak is saying it's optimistic about the future, is not fixing to go out of business, and is not burning through cash.

This after several media outlets noticed what the company

calls a technical warning in an official Kodak filing raising the issue of going out of business.

Kodak still makes film for the movie industry, has a chemical and commercial printing business,

and gets mileage from its iconic brand. In this digital camera phone era, it has less than 5,000 employees

down from 145,000 in 1988.

The Cool Kids have come back to analog

using silver-hylide film cameras

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