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I notice a massive increase in online sales in the U.K. Did anyone think about this coming when they introduced Chip and PIN? About as useful as Chips-and-sauce on the net isn't it, unless you have a ...
It is amusing to see how the banking industry is snorting in relief that Citi Bank declared a 2Q 08 loss of 'only' $ 2.5 Billion. Things have come to such a pass that a bank like IndyMac going under ...
There's absolutely no fintech angle or anything about Apple or Microsoft in this posting. I was sent an email this morning asking me to sign an online petition on the Number 10 web site - this was set...
Anyone ever had any difficulty transferring contacts from one phone to the next? Does 10 days to get your new Blackberry working and synchronised with your enterprise email system, and getting your ol...
PaidContent seems to have the scoop on this story, Monitor110 has announced it is to close its doors. The reason stated is inability to close a second round of VC funding, after raising an initial $...
Lee Hodgkinson makes some interesting points in this video. The plethora of alternative trading venues launching this year will live and die by the liquidity they attract. Everyone knows that Chi-X ha...
The Onion get's it spot on as usual, with an almost believable mix of truth and satire: "A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding...
Rumour has it that now that there are a few extra empty desks in the City (and Wall Street) many of them are hosting very expensive, and idle, Bloomberg terminals. The scramble to consolidate and save...
In the wake of Aviva's sale of its offshore operations to WNS, Businessweek has an interesting article on what it calls the "monumental shift" in the way Western firms tap into Indian exper...
New figures from Peter Gabriel’s entertainment recommendation website TheFilter.com show a dramatic rise in liking for ‘depressing music’, as the credit crunch bites. The Ten Most Popular Depressing...
Australian credit union BCU has taken a novel approach to online banking security by scanning customer PCs at the point of log-in for security weaknesses. Given Pete's rather scary post yesterday on ...
Everyone likes a good case study - Tim Collins, SVP Experiential Marketing at Wells Fargo is interviewed in this podcast (with supporting PPT site images) by Pepper & Rogers. I'd like to hear mo...