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Anyone who thinks chrome is a geek topic is missing the point. It is also not beta in the sense that people won't wait to use it in finance. The recent launch of Google's Chrome browser is nothing sho...
Initial reports from users suggest Chrome was rushed out, without internal beta testing. Apart from the the obvious lack of any ability to control advertising, it appears to lack support for much of t...
In a hedge fund, a prop trading desk or any high geek power trading environment, there is a chaos that is by now familiar. It is hard to imagine a world in which PhDs in physics, mathematics and stati...
Adult Entertainment Capital claims it will be the first BDC ever to focus purely on the "Adult Industry" which has been largely shut out by Wall Street firms. The company expects to announce...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against a little contextual advertising in search results. Someone has to pay the piper, if sites aren't going to pay to be indexed. With both Microsoft and Google (those s...
An obituary of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs - who is still alive - hit the Internet last week after someone at Bloomberg hit the wrong button and acccidentally released it to subscribers. It is no...
ABN Amro was one of the early pioneers in buying virtual real estate in Second Life, the Internet-based 3D fantasy playground. In 2006, the Dutch bank snapped up a large number of islands and opened a...
We can barely go a week without reading about the gender pay gap and how women are paid less. Every time we see the words “women” and “pay” together we hope for an upbeat and positive story, but they ...
The subject of optical reading via Mobile Phones as an alternative or complimentary application to RFID chips and readers is practically never raised - the industry is in fact missing a hugely importa...
With most of the population in developed world using Internet, if banks can lure them to use Internet banking and plastic cards would Paper Cash cease to exist in coming decade? Imagine terms like Dol...
The Internet is abuzz with the news of Goliath Google preparing to unleash its net browser on the world. This seems to be an almost messianic deliverance for geeks and Net-junkies. See http://www.bus...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words - personally I think it depends on the photographer and the writer - but that's just me. If you're a full community member you can now upload a photo to ap...