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Have a look at Creative Capital for some figures on a drop-off in both visitor numbers and more crucially the time spent on social networking sites in the U.S. MySpace showed a drop in engagement time...
In a desperate bid to restore its failing fortunes, online broker E*Trade has decided to splash out on two thirty-second advertisements to air during Super Bowl XLI, the coveted prime commercial spot ...
A study by researchers at New Zealand's Massey University has found that customers lose faith in the security of online banking systems as the number of authentication checks they have to go through ...
Mashable reports Reuters has announced Calais, an open API for automatic content tagging aimed at bloggers and content publishers. The Calais web site offers a $5,000 bounty to any developer quick off...
O2 have cut the monthly price for iPhone users - which as of yesterday included me - hurrah. I had been looking to replace my iPod and dodgy phone - and ideally wanted something that did proper web ...
With thoughts switching from MiFID compliance to the post MiFID impact on markets, here is a brief summary of some research on the probable impact on smaller European equity markets. The traditional ...
With the amazing speed & success of Google, cloud computing has emerged as the leading edge paradigm of computing architectures. The "newness" (or "fogginess", as the cynical b...
On 5th March 1995 Dutch banking and insurance group ING bought Barings for £1 and assumed liabilities of over $600m. According to some McKinsey research presented by Mark Lawrence at a PRMIA event I a...
Just when you thought the subject had safely swam off quietly into deeper waters, frightened off by crazed French bankers; the debate resurfaces thanks to those nice analysts at Celent.
There is an underreported flavour to the much-debated middle and back office experience of Jerome Kiervel, the Soc Gen trader responsible for last week's high drama. According to a copy of his CV cir...
Biff!! Bang!! Kerplunk!! -..... These would be annotations if a comic book artist were to draw a strip on last week's events in the financial markets. The industry now looks like how the Roman Army is...
This Symantec warning shows how banks are still open to man-in-the-middle attacks, as fraudsters constantly look for new ways to break in. However, there are solutions available to protect online bank...