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While most industries are being hurt by the global credit crunch, it appears that online dating is one of the sectors that is actually benefiting from the financial downturn. Dating web site plentymor...
A study by Carnegie Melon University has found that legislation mandating reporting of data breaches (and fines) has failed to lower ID theft or it's effects. Is it that nothing has changed and the do...
Investments in US dollars appear to be paying off for those who put away a dollar coin or even a cent or two from 1794. The HA Long Beach coin auctions this week showed a return of 5.75% per annum o...
The recent moves by legislators on both sides of the Atlantic to rein in interchange fees is no surprise though the companies involved may continue to ignore the writing on the wall, those fees and ma...
UK price comparison Web site moneysupermarket.com is reporting on an experiment where representatives from the company, placed on busy streets in London and Manchester, offered passers-by a free £5 no...
In case you didn't notice the increase lately, we've had our heaviest month in over a year with MessageLabs reporting that the poor folks in Hong Kong are seeing 89 percent of all email as spam and i...
Following the launch of its new mobile trading application for the Blackberry, Web broker E*Trade says it will showcase the system in upcoming television, print and online advertisements using its &qu...
There are some lovely little new systems which have well and truly taken that into account. In fact it has to be the foundation of any architecture. Robust, proven '5 nines' technology and equipment a...
The Times produced an interesting piece on the glass ceiling recently – Camilla Cavendish wrote that the concept is actually in women’s heads and that they actually fear promotion as males and females...
Despite the impact of the credit crunch and the uncertain economic outlook, there is still demand for IT professionals in the financial services sector, according to specialist online recruitment firm...
At the moment if I'm on Facebook and want to check my bank balance I have to click on one of my bookmarks and log in to Smile. That doesn't strike me as too much of a hardship. There is no way I'd tru...
The size of your pay packet doesn't guarantee happiness and fulfilment at work, according to a survey of 1000 workers across 20 professions which found bankers and financial services workers to be the...