Now compatible with Internet Explorer 8, FirstButton offers these samples to demonstrate the ease of installing a Brand Button on the IE Standard Toolbar. The Toolbar position is preset by the company whose brand is being promoted. No information is gathered by the FirstButton Installer, and none will be requested....
Even though SAS Risk Management for Banking comes with a lot of preconfigured functionality, it is evident that not all regulatory details with respect to liquidity risk are finalized and therefore remain unknown. It is also likely that the regulatory requirements are only basic requirements and that institutions will include...
Circuit City said Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and that the company plans to operate its business without interruption. Circuit City, the second largest electronics retailer behind Best Buy, has been thumped by its bigger rival and stores such as Wal-Mart. The company...
Alas Liquidity Events, I Knew Them Well.... If only wanting a liquidity event and getting it were that easy. As we say back in Texas, “'wantin’ and ‘gettin’ are two different thingsâ€. For technology executives looking for a liquidity event for their firm, the...
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Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That’s what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary giants, with Nokia’s purchase of Trolltech â€" announced yesterday - and Sun’s buy...
Fujitsu Siemens Computers wanted to manage short- and long-term liquidity and market risk in volatile global financial environment and centralize treasury (to function as service center for 50 worldwide subsidiaries). The challenge was to manage global treasury with small team and clear assessment of liquidity and risk and the effect...
The ABB Group, a leading global engineering company, has an illustrious record of innovation and technological leadership in many industries and has helped countries all over the world to build, develop, and maintain their infrastructures. In 2002 and 2003, ABB overcame a major liquidity crisis with the aid of Oracle's...
EnCana is one of North America's leading independent gas and oil production companies. They buy and sell product in the market place and need to offset and monitor risk from market movements, and assess risks associated with the customers, to ensure business is conducted within acceptable financial risk profiles. The...
AdECN, Inc, a new VC funded play in the nascent online display advertising auction space, aims to merge New York Stock Exchange style trading liquidity with “Las Vegas” style action in its AdECN Exchange. I spoke with William Urschel, AdECN CEO, about how he aims to make the buying and...
I kid you not :)Pensions got killed in the bailouts of the banks, except those that got insurance from AIG that bet against all the shenigans of Wall St. But sure enough AIG flops because it can't cover all the insurance bets it made on the mortgage backed certificates floated...
There's a fair amount of hubbub about Yahoo's decision to sell its stake in Alibaba.com, but it's really just an opportunistic trade. Reuters notes that Yahoo is selling its entire 1.14 stake in Alibaba.com, China's B2B e-commerce giant, to net about $150 million. The move makes sense...
Clearwire said Tuesday that it expects fourth quarter net subscriber additions to ramp as it rolls out its 4G Wimax service into more markets. That tipping point will be critical to the company's success---and possibly its survival. On a conference call with analysts, Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow...
Ballmer on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal: 'Nobody gets it'I was ge... liquidity means monetization, wha?I didn't really care. It's a better idea than Microsoft buying Yahoo (from Microsoft's point of view.)One day is too soon for the wisdom of the crowd to truly kick in (and I am dubious about the...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday that no one quite gets the software giant's search deal with Yahoo. Speaking at Microsoft's financial analyst meeting, Ballmer said he was surprised by the market reaction---Yahoo shares tanked---to the search deal. Ballmer said he wanted to provide his full explanation...
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and the...
In advance of its analyst powwow on Tuesday, Dell said that demand for its technology gear has stabilized and the company is expecting revenue to be up a bit sequentially in its fiscal second quarter. However, Dell's gross margins will fall short of Wall Street expectations. Dell...
Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
updated: Facebook said Tuesday that it has raised $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies DST, a Russian investment group. The deal gives values Facebook at $10 billion. In a statement, Facebook noted the following: Digital Sky gets preferred stock for a 1.96 percent stake...
Seagate Technology on Monday said revenue in its fiscal third quarter will be about $2.1 billion, better than the $1.88 billion projected by Wall Street. Meanwhile, Seagate said it has raised $430 million in a private bond offering that will pay all or some of its $300 million in debt...
