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Technology sector to rev up IPO recovery
News IT firms and emerging markets including China, India and Brazil, will lead recovery of public listing activities, finds new survey on global investors.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business development/management, Survey, U.S., Business Strategies & Functions, India, Technology Sector, IPO, Investor, oil & gas
S'pore firms lag in online protection
News update Fewer popular Web domain owners in Singapore authenticate e-mail or have strong protection for Web surfing compared to global sites, new scorecard shows.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Network security, Security Management, Web browsers, Web sites, Security, E-business, E-mail Authentication, SSL, Web sites
Forget Conficker--focus on the real threats
Insight perspective Despite all the headlines, it is not the Conficker worm people should be worrying about, says industry watcher.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Business security, ScanSafe, Malware, Stock, Mary Landesman, intellectual property, financial service, researcher
UK financial traders move to the sewers
News Optical fiber network provider, Geo, has opened a new high-capacity network for financial trading organizations to carry out automated trades more efficiently.
Tags: Network infrastructure, optical fiber, trader, Silicon.com, financial, network, financial service, network provider, spokesman, data network
Are telcos new drivers of outsourcing industry?
Blogs The recent TPI Index from TPI highlighted an interesting trend where a few very large telco-to-telco contracts--instance...
Mobile banking set to boom
News The number of global mobile banking transactions is predicted to reach 37 billion by 2011, and some 612 million users will generate over US$587 billion worth of financial transactions, says analyst house Juniper Research.
Tags: Banking, Mobile commerce, Data services, Mobile applications, Mobile, Juniper Networks Inc., Mobile Banking, developing country, payment, Silicon.com
Dell to pay US$4M in fraud case
News PC maker settles with the state of New York a year after being found to have engaged in "false, deceptive business practices".
Tags: Business ethics, Legal, PC Company, Attorney General, Sales, financing, New York, financial service, Dell Computer Corp., Legal
S'pore workers job-hunting, IT professionals in high demand
News Though Singapore's unemployment rates are near a four-year high, more workers are looking to change jobs while IT and financial companies find employees hard to come by, finds survey.
Tags: Recruiting, Personnel management, Business Strategies & Functions, Unemployment Rate, Worker, Employer, construction industry, Survey, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
'Global' India is more insulated than 'regulated' India
Blogs Now that it's proven that Uncle Sam is in poor financial health, everyone's been wondering what this means for India. Ev...
Has the Great American Dream ended for Indians?
Blogs The U.S. of A has had a special place in the hearts of urban Indians. Since childhood, I have seen many of my playmates,...
Silver surfers take mobile banking gold
News Trading stocks and accessing bank accounts were the second and third most popular types of sites respectively for phone users over the age of 55, behind those for checking the weather.
Tags: Web sites, Mobile commerce, Mobile, Mobile Banking, mobile financial service, Stock, phone, social networking, ComScore Networks Inc., network
Phishing attacks costing banks US$350 a pop
News The average cost of a phishing attack to the U.S. financial services industry was US$351 last year--a drop of 60 percent on the year before.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Phishing, Gartner Inc., financial, financial service, bank, industry, analyst, financial services company, Spam and phishing
When will organizations pay for data breaches?
Insight perspective More than a year after appearing in U.K. statute books, the watchdog's power to fine for data breaches is not yet operational. One lawyer urges those involved not to lose momentum.
Tags: Data security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Business security, Outsourcing, disc, compliance, financial, financial service, data protection
Fujitsu staff could strike over pensions, pay
News U.K. union is balloting members to test the temperature for industrial action over the proposed closure of the company's final salary pension scheme.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Officer, information technology worker, Worker, recession, Fujitsu Ltd., financial service, Notebooks and tablets
Bill Gates donates to help poor spend their money
News The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given a US$12.5 million grant to the Mobile Money for the Unbanked scheme which offers those in the developing regions their first bank account--on their mobiles.
Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, PDA phones, Web 2.0, Bill Gates, Mobile, Juniper Networks Inc., Mobile Banking, mobile financial service, mobile industry
