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S'pore banks get help in lending decisions
News Country's consumer credit bureau taps on business intelligence tools to enable financial institution members to perform timely creditworthiness checks online.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Banking, Commercial lending, Bureau, Risk Management, Business Objects, Financial Company, Singapore, credit history
Costs will dog HK mobile TV operators
News Hong Kong authorities will auction off mobile TV spectrum licenses in 2009, but operators may find it hard to translate opportunity into revenue, says Gartner.
Tags: Business structures, Sales/revenue, Business models, Pricing, Mobile, Bureau, Mobile TV, TV, Telecommunications, Hong Kong
eSolar bets on software to make solar cheaper
Insight newsmaker Bill Gross, the head of start-up incubator Idealab and CEO of eSolar, uses a background in Internet entrepreneurship and software to bring down the cost of utility-scale solar.
Tags: Green IT, Growth strategies and tools, Bill Gross, Renewable Energy, Idealab, CEO, Internet, U.S., California, solar energy
FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people
News U.S. and Egyptian authorities have charged almost 100 people involved in a phishing scam designed to swipe personal information and use the data to defraud banks.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Lawsuits, Phishing, U.S., bank, Egypt, FBI, Financial Company, credit card company, financial
Pirate Bay bidder finds new stock exchange
News Global Gaming Factory X was kicked off its former stock exchange for providing the public with false information about its ability to buy The Pirate Bay. But it's found a new one.
Tags: Web 2.0, BitTorrent, software company, Stock, stock exchange, Sweden, spokesman, acquisition, Web 2.0, game
Tech and a nation's altered psyche
Blogs The sun's out here in Metro Manila, but the northern part of the Philippines is currently pounded by "stationary" typhoo...
Catching up with voyeurism and cybercrime
Blogs The over-the-top coverage by the mainstream media this week on the sex video scandal of a celebrity doctor here has been...
Insiders question label deal for Pirate Bay bidder
News Just as the press began eying Global Gaming Factory with suspicion, it came up with funding, a potential record deal and potential buyers. How much of that was real?
Tags: Web 2.0, BitTorrent, EMI Group Plc., Grokster Ltd., Investor, Stock, entertainment, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sweden, Internet Cafe
Pirate Bay buyer 'misled' investors, booted off exchange
News The Pirate Bay acquisition by Global Gaming have moved from comical to gravely serious as a Swedish stock exchange accuses company of "providing false information".
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, Grokster Ltd., Investor, Stock, entertainment, Sweden, financial
Sweden launches criminal probe of Pirate Bay sale
News A week before Global Gaming announced it would acquire Pirate Bay, the company's stock shot up. Swedish authorities want to know why.
Tags: Web 2.0, BitTorrent, Napster Inc., Stock, Shawn Fanning, financing, CEO, Sweden, leader, acquisition
Pirate Bay bidder loses chairman
News Magnus Bergman has filed documents to end his affiliation with Global Gaming Factory X, the company attempting to acquire The Pirate Bay.
Tags: Business applications, Web 2.0, Digital media, P2P, financial health, Stock, liquidity, Digital media, stock exchange, chairman
Waledac worm targeting July 4 spam offensive
News Researcher warns people to be cautious about clicking on links related to U.S. Independence Day videos in e-mail messages over the holiday.
Tags: Network security, Video, PC security, Eset, Worm, Spamming, Spam, leasing, Valentine's Day, e-Mail Message
Internet advertising revenues rise in Q4
News Despite steep economic woes in the fourth quarter, Internet advertising revenues rose a modest 2.6 percent increase, according to a report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
Tags: Internet advertising, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Internet Advertising, Internet Search Advertising, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Advertisement, digital video, financial service, marketing, revenue
Mystery virus strikes FBI, US Marshals
News Law-enforcement agencies forced to shut down their networks after being affected by a virus of undetermined type and origin.
Tags: Viruses and worms, FBI, U.S. Department Of Justice, Spokesperson, computer, Associated Press, virus, CERT, network, computer network
FBI used spyware to capture hackers, hitmen
News Documents obtained in a freedom-of-information request show the U.S. law-enforcement agency used a secret form of spyware in a number of investigations.
Tags: Hacking, FBI, Anti-spyware, IP, Cipav, computer, e-mail, spyware, MSN Hotmail, News.com
