EMC said today it has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioural analysis. EMC plans to use the purchase to beef up its RSA security division in the rapidly ...
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Mobile commerce (mCommerce) adoption is growing among businesses both globally and locally as it opens new revenue lines, says SAP. According to Gartner, Asia-Pacific and Africa will account for more than 60 percent of global mobile ...
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Halcyon Software, the global leader in systems management software, has announced the immediate availability of Authority Swapper 10.0, the latest version of the access control tool for the IBM i. The solution allows IT managers to grant ...
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Tech Mahindra Limited has acquired 51% stake on a fully diluted basis in Comviva Technologies Limited, which provides mobile Value Added Services (VAS), Mobile Money and Mobile Payment solutions. The deal will be subject to regulatory ...
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A polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and its processing plant will be established in the Ivanovo region of Russia, as an agreement has been signed between JSC Cluster Textile Corporation Iverginsintez and EPC Engineering Consulting GmbH, in ...
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Is the PE backed, Indian apparel retail industry growth story falling apart or turning sour? Considering the increasing number of garment retailers who are suffering from growing debt pressures, more so those funded by Private Equity (PE) ...
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Financial services regulation is an industry in itself with 140,000 pages of regulations published over the last two years, but organisations could streamline the process of meeting regulations by getting IT involved in the process earlier. ...
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PTI reported that Essar Shipping is planning to convert around INR 800 crore of total INR 5,500 crore debt into dollar loans to bring down the interest burden. Mr AR Ramakrishnan MD of Essar Shipping said that "We are planning to convert ...
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Taiwan's Bureau of Energy plans to hold a business conference regarding Taiwan-based firms developing markets such as the US and Thailand on December 21,2012. Solar makers noted that the US market is relatively transparent but requires a ...
ITU today announced the finalists of the Young Innovators Competition. Open to young social entrepreneurs between ages 18 and 25 from around the world, the competition seeks innovative digital solutions in the form of initial concepts or ...
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Reuters reported that Rosneft is talking to oil majors and traders, including Shell, Total and Glencore, to raise up to USD 10 billion using future oil exports as collateral to complete its purchase of TNK-BP and become the world's biggest ...
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Starbucks is investing $25 million in mobile payment venture Square, and will allow customers to use a Pay with Square smartphone application to buy coffee at its retail stores starting this fall, the companies announced Wednesday. As ...
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Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Message Service) were found on Google Play by researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky ...
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OZFOREX, the online foreign-exchange services specialist backed by Macquarie Group and two of the world's most powerful venture capital and private equity investors, is planning to double the size of its business over the next four years, ...
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According to a report by the National Commercial Bank,Saudi Arabia's monetary system continues to overflow with liquidity as the monetary base for the fifth consecutive month,expanding by 16.4%and setting an all time record at SAR 334.9 ...
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