Large overseas institution BlackRock spent more than CNY 300 million buying additional H-shares in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to lift its holding to 6.23% after Goldman Sachs sold all shares it held in the Chinese ...
Law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Vietnam and the U.K. have disbanded a ring that allegedly sold online credit card details since 2007. The ring, which sold the credit card information through two websites, is said to have caused over ...
Tags: Computer Products, Hackers, Credit Card
BrandSource buying group has launched a new consumer financing program that it said will offer its members low rates and new consumer promotions. The program offered through Citi Bank Financial, features customer incentives, including a ...
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) today publishes its latest Plan A Report which shows progress against the programme’s 180 sustainability commitments, including its stretching 2015 targets. 139 of the 180 commitments have been achieved ...
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THE Australian dollar was slightly higher yesterday after taking a roller-coaster ride in the previous 24 hours. On Thursday afternoon the currency dropped to an almost three-year low of US94.35c, but in offshore trade on Thursday night ...
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THE Australian dollar has jumped sharply higher in a morning of volatile trading. The currency hit a two-and-a-half year low of 94.35 US cents shortly after midnight AEST before staging an impressive recovery. It climbed almost ...
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The Australian dollar is slightly higher after it was taken on a roller coaster ride over the past 24 hours. The currency dropped yesterday afternoon to an almost three-year low of 94.35 US cents, but in offshore trade last night it ...
Tags: Dollar, US Economic Figures
Microsoft and the FBI have taken aim at a botnet network based on malware called Citadel that is held responsible for stealing people's online banking information and personal identities. The company, however, warned that because of ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft
Alliance Pharmaceuticals Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliance Pharma, has purchased all the existing rights to obstetric drug Syntometrine from Novartis for $11.5m. The total consideration for acquiring the rights will be funded ...
Tags: Obstetric Drug, Medicine
For the second time, Voith has been awarded a contract for a hydropower project in Africa: the company will modernize Inga I hydropower station in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project on the River Congo, led by Voith in a ...
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SolarAid has been selected to receive a £400,000 Global Impact Award from Google’s Global Impact Challenge. The charity says the Award, which is decided by a panel of judges including Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Richard ...
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Further falls have been forecast for the Australian dollar, which yesterday dived below the US95c mark to levels not seen since October 2011. Speculation that the US Federal Reserve will begin to slow its monetary stimulus sooner than ...
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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 ...
Tags: Microsoft, FBI, Cyber Crime Ring
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says it has set new standards of performance for high-frequency CMOS RF switches with ...
Tags: CMOS RF Switches, Electrical
WorldPay, a player in payment processing, risk and alternative payments, has announced that Microsoft is using its alternative payments programme to capture growth in China, following an agreement to allow consumers in China to purchase ...
Tags: Worldpay, Alternative Payments