South African junior thermal coal miner Continental Coal announced Monday that diversified mining investment and production company Village Main Reef has agreed to acquire a 19.9% interest in the miner through a A$8 million ($8.3 million) ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Chemicals
Two researchers from security firm Imperva have devised new techniques that could allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypted Web traffic. The new methods build on those used in an attack called CRIME revealed ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has advised all banks/DFIs to forward the claims of textile exporters to the concerned offices of SBP-Banking Services Corporation (BSC) for the release of 22% Export Finance Mark up Rate Facility of second ...
Tags: SBP, Textile Exporters'Claims, Textile
The sharemarket closed lower today, dragged down by the four big banks. At the close of trade, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 25.5 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 5092.4. The All Ordinaries index was down 24.2 points, or 0.47 per ...
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Expanding its stack of enterprise ready open source middleware, Red Hat has integrated key software from its acquisition of FuseSource last September. Red Hat has folded both FuseSource's Fuse enterprise service bus (ESB) and FuseSource's ...
Tags: Red Hat, software, technologies
U.S. government agencies will need the help of companies while developing a set of cybersecurity standards that President Obama has called for in an executive order signed last month, administration officials said. The Obama ...
Polaris Enterprise Solution Limited (PESL), a leading technology provider in diverse industry segments and a wholly owned subsidiary of Polaris Financial Technology Ltd won the 'EPoS (Electronic Point of Sale) Initiative of the Year' award ...
Tags: Polaris Enterprise, PESL, EPoS Award, iRetail Solution
Recent reports from antivirus companies seem to suggest that the number of Android malware threats is growing. However, there are still many skeptics who say the extent of the problem is exaggerated. The security industry has an ...
Tags: antivirus companies, Android malware threats, credibility issue
China Specialty Glass AG (CSG) hereby announces that the CFO Michael Lee has resigned from his offices due to personal reasons. The supervisory board accepts his withdrawal, which comes into immediate effect. Mr. Lee has been with CSG since ...
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Pirated software is costing industry in excess of $114 billion, according to a new IDC survey commissioned by Microsoft. Though many consumers and businesses purchase and download pirated software purposely as a way of saving money, the ...
Finland-based F-Secure said in a report that the free Google operating system, which has been gaining smartphone market share globally, has become the dominant platform targetted by hackers. "Every quarter, malware authors bring forth new ...
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the banking group that owns NatWest, has suffered another embarrassing outage when its computer systems crashed last night, leaving its 7.5 million customers unable to withdraw cash, access their current ...
Middle East IT spending is projected to total $192.9 billion in 2013, a 5.5 percent increase from 2012, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The findings were revealed by Peter Sondergaard, Senior VP and Global Head of Research, ...
Tags: IT Spending, 2013, Gartner
Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) has acquired certain assets of Silonex Inc of Montreal, ...
Tags: Photonix, FILTRODE photodetectors, optoelectronic devices
The Commonwealth Bank has launched its smartphone banking app Kaching as a social app that can be accessed from within Facebook. Customers can make payments to Facebook Events, and gift payments to friends and family from within the ...
Tags: app Kaching, Facebook, social network