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Disaster Recovery Strategies for Hedge Fund Managers: Issues and Considerations

In the high-pressure and high-stakes world of hedge funds, a business interruption can quickly become a business killer. With their complete reliance on a sophisticated foundation of powerful computers and applications, data networks, and voice communications, hedge funds cannot afford even the slightest disruption in their IT service. When one...

Tags: Hedge Fund Manager, Hedge Fund, Eze Castle Integration, Investment, Disaster Recovery, Financial Services, Finance, Data Management

White papers 2008-07-09

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Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Another call for Yahoo-Icahn compromise

Carl Icahn's push to get a new slate of directors on board at Yahoo took another hit late Sunday when another shareholder stepped up to call for a compromise. According to Reuters, Eric Jackson, manager of hedge fund Ironfire Capital and leader of shareholder group Yahoo Plan B, will announce...

Tags: Slate, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Is everything open source?

To see just how big a buzzword open source has become, look to the troubled bond insurers MBIA and AMBAC. These two companies started off insuring municipal bonds against default, then got in trouble with the complex mortgage instruments known as the Big Shitpile. ...

Tags: Bond, MBIA, Investment, Open Source, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Play the Sears privacy game (and get your neighbor's purchase history)

Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School and noted anti-spyware researcher, is on Sears' privacy case again. This time, Edelman, tells you how to find another person's purchase history via Sears' "Manage My Home" site. If you recall, Edelman highlighted how...

Tags: Game, Sears Roebuck & Co., Ben Edelman, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Security, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-04

Is God on technology's side? Or is it the other way around?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds that the Web accommodates all kinds of bloggers, including a nun who says she is "wildly enthusiastic about our mission of putting communications technology at the service of the Gospel." One of the more rewarding things about the Web is that...

Tags: Web, Bible, Technology, God, Sister Anne, Chris, Channel Management, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Latest Macworld rumor grist: Jobs' health

While the tech world is talking about Apple tablet PCs, iPhones and such ahead of Macworld, Wall Street rumors are percolating about Steve Jobs health. In a blog post recapping 10 things hes hearing on Wall Street, hedge fund manager...

Tags: Apple, Macworld, General, Apple Computer Inc., iPhone, Doug Kass, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-05

Skype free call offer "F-ing brilliant" Vonage IPO-killer?

Yes, F(Financially, wink wink)-ing brilliant, indeed. Former hedge fund manager Andy Kessler thinks that Skype's introduction of free calling within the U.S. is an effort to "toy with the mouse" before you kill it.And writing on GigaOm, Kessler thinks the mouse is Vonage. "The buzz on the Street...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Andy Kessler

Blog posts 2006-05-17