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If this Reuters news item turns out to be true, Markit has a very good chance of becoming the number three data vendor behind Reuters/Thomson and Bloomberg. In fact, Tom Glocer was alledged to have s...
The former Inland Revenue supplies a PAYE Calculator on a CD-ROM. Adding a new starter today, when I completed uploading her profile I got a warning message “this employee is beyond retirement age”, ...
After previewing its fourth quarter results on Monday, IBM yesterday provided more details yesterday, which provided a boost for the tech sector generally. And although it may be too early to tell, th...
Yesterday evening I enjoyed a lively debate on "Mobile Telephony and the Supply Chain" at the Financial Services Club Supply Chain Forum... good company, wine and food... but left with the n...
My colleague Navjeet has taken an interest in the OLPC project which recently had Intel pull out. The Register today have a hands on review of the machine itself - the OLPC XO - and it looks pretty...
Betting on the Dragon Since January 2000, the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite has grown by an average of 20% a year. Compared to other past market bubbles, we can see that while the shanghai market ...
Here's an M&A story that caught my eye yesterday. Sun buys MySQL - the world's most popular open source database for a billion dollars. I'd have just downloaded it for free but there you go. I'll...
Interesting item covered by The Register about a huge number of web sites apparently serving up malware. And as yet no one has worked out how they were compromised. This is a really sneaky exploit - w...
Year 4706, the year of the rat, begins on February 7th in China this year. With the celebration just under a month away, it’s tempting to use the time to procrastinate on making predictions on what wi...
Coming to Finexpo? Curious to know what's going on? We've just put the updated speaker session listings live - with speaker photos and session profiles. Finexpo CTS seminar sessions Finexpo day at a...
I seem to have developed a reputation in the office for being obsessed with Apple. Not true. I just like things that are well engineered and designed - and easy to use. Oh and they have to work too. A...
At US$ 100 oil-a-barrel lots of opportunities can be visible. Every alternative energy / research project on earth was looking expensive at $28 or $36 or $46. But what about $ 60-70-80-90 and now inte...