A host of big companies have explained how they have benefitted from?Big Data in a research report?published this week. The Big Data in Big Companies report describes how around 20 large firms have deployed analytics software to benefit ...
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Microsoft and the FBI have combined forces to strike a major blow against one of the world's biggest cyber crime networks, responsible for stealing more than $500m (£323m) from bank accounts. Aided by authorities in more than 80 ...
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Most financial services organisations (even the largest ones) have admitted that they do not have the budget to deal with the largest cyber attacks, according to attendees of a recent forum. Comments made at Ballintrae's first IT Security ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is pleased to announce that more than 30 of the world’s most respected companies, ranging from banks and retail corporations to architecture firms and technology companies, are showing their ...
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Title insurance, mortgage services and diversified services provider Fidelity National Financial (FNF) has signed an agreement to purchase mortgage-services provider Lender Processing Services (LPS), for about $2.9bn. Under the terms of ...
An image purporting to be the upcoming third-generation Mazda 3 has appeared in a US bank’s analysis of the car industry. The image of the supposed next-gen Mazda 3 small car – referenced as being sourced from Mazda North ...
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Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transparency report. Donations have been declining substantially over the last two years, the ...
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In 2003, Yukos was preparing for a game-changing merger with another private Russian oil company, Roman Abramovich's Sibneft, to create a 2.3 million b/d Russian oil producing giant. The deal was scuppered, however, in large part because ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 app store failed a test touted by a former Microsoft manager and distinguished engineer as a way to determine an ecosystem's relevance. On Monday, Hal Berenson, now president of True Mountain Group, a technology and ...
Within the U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is a proposal to create a database that may shed new light on H-1B hiring. The intent of the database is to help improve the odds that a U.S. worker may get hired over a foreign ...
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Consumers' home PCs were no safer than they were last year, our annual State of the Net survey found. Heavy spam afflicted 43 percent of those surveyed. We've used our survey to extrapolate the number of consumers affected nationally. ...
Foreign banks continue selling stake in Chinese lenders due to uncertainties of the Chinese economy. Sources said recently that HSBC would sell an eight percent stake in Bank of Shanghai, a city-level commercial lender in the Chinese ...
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US stocks ended a tumultuous day with strong gains after a false tweet briefly sent financial markets veering, underscoring technology's role in tightly linking global markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunged Tuesday ...
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The Australian dollar surged against the US dollar to its highest level in 2 1/2 months on the back of data that showed solid growth in exports to China, the nation's largest trading partner, over the past year. Australian exports to ...
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SAP has filed a court action against patent holder Pi-Net International, which it says has filed patent infringement lawsuits against a number of SAP customers. The alleged infringements, which concern three Pi-Net patents, are associated ...
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