People with management, testing and development skills are likely to see the greatest pay rises this year, according to a report. The latest Global Salary Survey, by specialist recruitment consultancy Robert Walters, was confident hiring ...
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Rabee Securities listed Asiacell Communications PJSC yesterday (Sunday). The company started trading today under the ISX ticker “TASC”, at a starting price of IQD 22. In total 67,503,000,000 number of shares were listed and ...
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Retail banks will spend $118bn on IT equipment this year, reports Ovum – 3.4% up on 2012. The spending shows greater optimism in the banking community, says Ovum, and will be used to support mobile banking growth of 4% in Europe in ...
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The BRAIN Dealer Tour of San Francisco wrapped up Thursday with a 20-mile jaunt around the city, ably led by folks from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, who for the most part managed to route us around the steepest hills as we visited ...
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Barclays Pingit has been named in the App Store Best of 2012 list in the UK by Apple. The ground-breaking mobile payments app was selected from thousands in the Apple store for recognition in the awards' 'Disruptive Services' section, ...
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International developer EPGI has announced that they have been awarded the development management contract to develop and build the new Basra Oil and Gas International Free Zone in Iraq. The project is the second largest of its kind in ...
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The Australian sharemarket closed half a percentage point higher as investors chased higher-yielding financial stocks. At the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 25.0 points, or 0.52 per cent higher at 4835.2, while the ...
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The sharemarket climbed again yesterday, closing the week on a high on good news from home and abroad and supported by investors seeking stocks with high dividend yields. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.5 per cent at 4835.2 points, ...
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India Ratings’ outlook for cotton textiles remains negative to stable for 2013 on account of subdued demand, although margins are expected to benefit from softening raw material prices. The outlook for synthetic textiles remains ...
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Stocks advanced to a new 21-month high yesterday, led by the banking and telecommunications sectors, as investors continued to chase higher-yielding investments. The market, which began the day sluggishly following a disappointing report ...
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Kanguru announces the launch of Kanguru’s new Defender DualTrustTM, a new secure online access and encrypted USB storage device developed jointly by Kanguru and Deepnet Security. The Defender DualTrust turns any Windows PC into a safe ...
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Octopus Investments (Octopus) in partnership with Lightsource Renewable Energy (Lightsource), its dedicated in-house solar development company, has announced that it had successfully secured funding from The Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate ...
Dutch financial conglomerate ING has agreed to dispose of its 26% stake in Indian joint venture (JV), ING Vysya Life Insurance Company, to its partner Exide Industries, for an undisclosed sum. As part of a previously disclosed divestment ...
US-based underwriter NexTier Insurance Services has acquired Armstrong Insurance Services, for an undisclosed sum. Based on the term of the agreement, former owners of Armstrong Insurance Alan Bowser and John Armitage will work with ...
US law enforcement has announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the US, including at the space agency NASA. The "alleged international ...
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