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Ebay restrains Paypal competitors by banning other payments in it's march towards monopoly. Financial institutions should be concerned that Ebay/Paypal is entering the financial services sector withou...
Interesting read by Larry Dignan on the view of a couple of Gartner analysts. Perhaps I should become an analyst - I could have said much of this - in fact I suspect anyone could have told you Windo...
Not the best news from the Daily Telegraph and Finextra, but perhaps one of the first signs of the credit crunch hitting the call centres of UK financial services firms. I'd wondered in January th...
This is one of the interesting topics that came up for debate at a risk event I attended yesterday organised by the CASS Business School in London and the Capco Institute. The recent sub-prime and liq...
Vizuo XL Sports Vision Enhancement is a dietary supplement that claims to improve the agility, coordination and reaction speed of athletes which is now being used by Wall Street traders to help execut...
Going by the events of the 10 days, it looks like Lady Subprime who has been grabbing all our attention has serious competition. The 'World Food Crisis' threatens to take us back to the basics and mak...
Microsoft and some of the other big internet players have realised that the internet will stall without identity and trust. Web 2.0 or whatever they call it this week, is just like the real world. Lin...
George Soros has 'come out of retirement' albeit to launch his new book Credit Crisis 2008 and what it means. I haven't had time to read it yet so I'll go by his spoken words. Recent statements by Mr...
"At this year’s RSA, Microsoft will not announce a new company strategy. Rather, we will use this opportunity to ask all who care about online safety to join in a robust and meaningful discussion...
The Citic / Bear Stearns fall-out is one example of many where proposed or actual tie-ups in China have changed as of late. Another prominent one is Yahoo and their arrangement with Alibaba, the large...
It is no secret that there is a highly symbiotic relationship between economic affairs and national security. One is hugely influential on the other. In today’s hyper-dependent global economy this is ...
Organisations that are tempted to cut back on green PC initiatives as part of wider IT cost-cutting efforts may find themselves out of pocket in the near- to mid-term, according to Gartner. For most ...