Microsoft is expected to unveil a successor to Xbox 360 videogame consoles next month. Microsoft sent out invitations yesterday to the May 21 event at its main campus in Redmond, Washington at which its Xbox team will reveal a "new ...
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Malaysia-based banking group AMMB Holdings is looking for potential buyers to dispose of certain stake in its life insurance operations, in a bid to raise nearly $600m from the deal. Sources familiar with the deal were quoted by the Wall ...
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Austria-based cellulosic fiber manufacturer Lenzing AG has announced it will sell 85 percent of its shares in Lenzing Plastics GmbH to an Austria-based bidding consortium led by Invest AG, the investment arm of the Raiffeisen Banking Group ...
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The corporate regulator has appointed a senior executive of Macquarie Group to fill one of its top posts amid a recent history of high-profile actions against the country's biggest home-grown investment bank. Cathie Armour, an executive ...
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Nationwide Building Society has been hit by an IT glitch, with many of its customers flocking to social network Twitter to show their frustration. Chelsey Strode tweeted "thanks Nationwide for being a massive inconvenience", while Chloe ...
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Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer's Master Boot Record (MBR) in order to achieve persistence. The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector that ...
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Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations company Groub-IB have recently identified a new piece of malware designed to steal login credentials from specialized software used to trade stocks and other securities online. ...
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Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal (FHAN) is seeking a change in the country's handicraft export mechanism to be able to draw better export estimates. The Federation said Nepali handicraft exports are quite encouraging, but it ...
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The day’s events will include discussion of near-shoring and the creation of innovation “hubs” across the nation. Government officials from across the country—Gov. Bill Haslam (R-Tenn.); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D - ...
Dutch financial conglomerate ING, has agreed to dispose of its 49% stake in Korean joint venture (JV), KB Life Insurance Company (KB Life), to venture partner KB Financial Group. A total consideration of KRW166.5bn (€115m) will be ...
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The Australian dollar hit a five-week low after Wall Street was dragged down by falls in the share price of US banking stocks and Apple. At 6.30am AEDT the local unit was trading at 102.94 US cents, down from 103.63 cents at ...
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Apple on Tuesday patched Java for the aged OS X Snow Leopard and tweaked Safari to give users more control over what websites they let run the vulnerability plagued Oracle software. Oracle on Tuesday shipped an update for Java 6 and Java ...
Health insurer Aetna has launched a new product to help mid-sized employers offer health benefits directly to employees and also assume the financial risk for their employees' claims. Known as Aetna Funding Advantage (AFA), the new ...
TELSTRA shares hit a five-year high yesterday as investors flocked to high-yield stocks in the telco and banking sectors to protect against dramatic sell-offs in resources stocks. Shares in the nation's dominant telco soared to their ...
Indian outsourcing and services company Infosys has teamed up with Queen's University Belfast to conduct joint research into the global cyber security threat. The partnership brings together Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Secure ...
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