A hacker group said to be connected to Hamas has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks in retaliation to the controversial video "The Innocence of Muslims" posted on Google's YouTube service. ...
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Equinix,the provider of network-neutral datacentres,is adding 4,000 square metres of datacentre space with an additional capacity for 1,400 cabinets at its London Slough LD5 International Business Exchange(IBX)datacentre. Equinix will ...
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The Otto Group distances itself from the move towards introducing a standard software package for the entire Group. Instead, all companies in the Otto Group will now plan and implement their own IT solutions. Under the slogan 'Passion for ...
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The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has put U.S. banks on high alert against cyberattackers seeking to steal employee network login credentials to conduct extensive wire transfer fraud. The alert warns ...
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WARREN, Mich. -- Art Van Furniture has promoted Ken Bussell to vice president-financial services. In a company memo, the retailer noted the promotion from director to vice president "recognizes the important role that Ken has filled since ...
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A comprehensive annual survey of £14bn worth of UK IT services contacts has revealed a continued appetite to outsource, new reasons for doing so and different ways of doing it. In its sixth year, KPMG's annual UK IT Service Provider ...
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ANAHEIM,Calif.—Furniture,electronics and appliance buying group BrandSource has formed an alliance with the National Home Furnishings Assn.to provide NHFA members and its affiliates with inventory financing services. BrandSource ...
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Developers across the country get into outburst mode when cement manufacturers increase prices. They blame the cement cartel of pushing up construction costs. While manufacturers have insisted that cement price hike has only a marginal ...
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The iPhone 5,which is expected to be announced tomorrow,could provide a financial boost to the US economy of up to 0.5 per cent. That's according to financial services firm JP Morgan,which predicts sales of eight million iPhone 5s ...
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The Bank of England is to hire 145 IT staff to fill roles in its new financial services watchdog the Prudential Regulatory Authority(PRA). The PRA is tasked with ensuring financial institutions have the appropriate levels of liquidity to ...
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Consumers will be able to compare the cost of like for like kitchens following the launch of a new price comparison website. Insight Retail Group (IRG) launched kitchen-compare.com last week, initially comparing the offerings of leading ...
The Hartford has appointed Matthew Kirk as senior vice president of sales and distribution for the company's commercial markets division and will report to commercial markets president Doug Elliot. The US underwriter also has promoted Jay ...
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The night watchman and the IT security guy rarely work together even though their jobs,at the core,are similar:to protect the company.At many organizations,physical and information security remain separate entities by happenstance and by ...
Symetra Life Insurance, a subsidiary of Symetra Financial Corporation, has selected Craig Raymond as its new senior vice president and chief strategy officer, effective from 17 September 2012. Based in the greater Hartford, Connecticut, ...
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IBM is to acquire human resources solutions provider Kenexa for about$1.3bn(£821m)as it looks to compete against the likes of Oracle,SAP and Salesforce.com in the software-as-a-service(SaaS)market. Kenexa uses cloud-based technology ...
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