Financial Services

Google moves into expandable advertising

Google moves into expandable advertising

Google has announced that it is to trial a new form of advertising on its search pages..
Iain Thomson Mar 6 2009 3:08PM Financial Services
Fujitsu acquires KAZ from Telstra for $200 million

Fujitsu acquires KAZ from Telstra for $200 million

IT services powerhouse Fujitsu will relieve Telstra of its KAZ IT services business for $200 million.
Brett Winterford Mar 2 2009 10:30AM Financial Services
RIM execs nailed for backdating

RIM execs nailed for backdating

Four executives from Research In Motion have been hit with stock option backdating charges by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Shaun Nichols Feb 20 2009 6:44AM Financial Services
Google may face monopoly probe

Google may face monopoly probe

Google may find itself at the centre of an US antitrust investigation after comments made by a new member of the Obama administration.
Iain Thomson Feb 19 2009 3:34PM Financial Services
Gartner advises against just axing costs

Gartner advises against just axing costs

Gartner has advised IT departments not to simply undertake cost-cutting exercises in response to the economic crisis, but to instead focus on cost optimisation programmes.
Rosalie Marshall Feb 12 2009 6:28AM Financial Services
Leopard Labs hunts venture capital as funding options dwindle

Leopard Labs hunts venture capital as funding options dwindle

Sydney start-up Leopard Labs may be forced overseas to secure additional investment as it seeks to finalise deals with carriers and mobile OS developers such as Microsoft.
Ry Crozier Feb 11 2009 3:20PM Financial Services
$42 billion stimulus package doesn’t impress ACS

$42 billion stimulus package doesn’t impress ACS

Overnight approval of the Federal government’s latest economic stimulus package has failed to win Australian Computer Society (ACS) support with the peak body accusing the government of “failing to recognise the potential of the ICT industry”.
Staff Writers Feb 5 2009 3:06PM Financial Services
Nokia denies threatening to leave Finland

Nokia denies threatening to leave Finland

Mobile phone giant Nokia has publicly denied claims that it could transfer its headquarters out of Finland if the country's laws on electronic surveillance are not changed.
Sylvie Barak Feb 3 2009 6:43AM Financial Services
PwC auditors accused of assisting Satyam fraud

PwC auditors accused of assisting Satyam fraud

Two PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) auditors stand accused of helping Satyam chairman Ramalinga Raju to inflate the company's profits by 50.4bn rupees (US$1 billion) in a scandal that is now commonly referred to as 'India's Enron'.
Rosalie Marshall Feb 2 2009 12:32AM Financial Services
Microsoft tightens its belt further

Microsoft tightens its belt further

Microsoft has revealed further cost-cutting measures to help it weather the economic storm, including reducing the use of vendors, slashing marketing spend and postponing plans for a new data centre.
Sylvie Barak Jan 27 2009 6:40AM Financial Services
Value of UK tech deals jumps 10 per cent

Value of UK tech deals jumps 10 per cent

A strong performance by the UK technology sector last year helped to push global deals to respectable levels in 2008, according to new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Phil Muncaster Jan 20 2009 2:50PM Financial Services
SCO seeks to auction off assets

SCO seeks to auction off assets

SCO has submitted a plan to bankruptcy court that would allow it to auction off core assets in order to get enough operating capital to finish its legal battles.
Iain Thomson Jan 15 2009 2:32PM Financial Services
Wipro, Megasoft implicated in World Bank procurement scandal

Wipro, Megasoft implicated in World Bank procurement scandal

Two more Indian firms have been barred from doing business with the World Bank, less than a month after details of Satyam’s eight-year ban were revealed.
Staff Writers Jan 13 2009 3:04PM Financial Services
Credit crunch hits outsourcing providers

Credit crunch hits outsourcing providers

The deepening financial crisis is having a dramatic effect on the outsourcing market, according to new figures from Compass Management Consulting.
Phil Muncaster Jan 13 2009 6:44AM Financial Services
Microsoft Yahoo deal back in the spotlight

Microsoft Yahoo deal back in the spotlight

Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo's search business may be back on the cards, according to fresh reports.
Rosalie Marshall Jan 12 2009 3:44PM Financial Services
Sun expands cloud capabilities with Q-Layer buy

Sun expands cloud capabilities with Q-Layer buy

Sun Microsystems has boosted its cloud computing capabilities with the acquisition of Q-Layer, a Belgium-based firm specialising in the automation and deployment of public and private clouds.
Phil Muncaster Jan 8 2009 6:55AM Financial Services
Smartphone sales slowest on record

Smartphone sales slowest on record

Global smartphone sales are growing at the slowest rate since records began, according to the latest figures from Gartner.
Iain Thomson Dec 8 2008 2:41PM Financial Services
Secrets of the underground economy

Secrets of the underground economy

In IRC channels and web-based forums, the underground economy is thriving, according to the latest year-long report by Symantec. Find out how much a botnet or a set of credit card details would cost you.
Kathryn Small Dec 1 2008 1:11PM Financial Services
Online spending drops for the first time

Online spending drops for the first time

Online monitoring company ComScore is reporting that spending online has dropped for the first time since records began.
Iain Thomson Nov 26 2008 3:34PM Financial Services
HP releases optimistic financial predictions

HP releases optimistic financial predictions

Rebelling against the Wall Street credit crunch and pessimistic earnings forcast trends, HP has come out with a prediction it will actually beat analyst forcasts, with earnings slightly up.
Sylvie Barak Nov 20 2008 3:18PM Financial Services

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