Financial Markets

RBS, NatWest Failure Blamed On Human Error

RBS cancells Wimbledon jolly and may sue CA, while Mervyn King promises an inquiry into the banking disaster

12 years ago

Massive Money-Stealing Botnet Suspect Arrested In Russia

A 22-year-old allegedly used 6 million computers to steal £2.9 million, as part of a major botnet operation

13 years ago

Silicon Valley Bank Opens London Branch

The bank wants to have 1,500 UK tech start-ups as clients in three years

13 years ago

Report: Nasdaq Set To Compensate For Facebook’s IPO Glitch

Stock exchange is set to atone for the technical problems that hit the Facebook IPO

13 years ago

Updated Tax Calculator Crashes Hours After Launch

App crashes as 400,000 people wanted to know how the government spends their tax

13 years ago

Facebook’s Shares Continue To Drop, Regulators Are Concerned

Morgan Stanley might have improperly disclosed information to the investors

13 years ago

Don’t Write Off HP And Yahoo Just Yet

With the right direction, both HP and Yahoo can turn their fortunes around says Chris Preimesberger

13 years ago

Facebook IPO: Analysts Doubtful As Shareholders Cash In

A $100bn valuation for Facebook would be 100 times its revenue. Analysts are warning small investors away

13 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Tech Stocks And Shares

Do you know how to find investment opportunities worthy of your money?

13 years ago

Visa Sets The Date For V.me UK Launch

Another digital wallet is hungry for your money

13 years ago

Toshiba Set To Acquire IBM’s POS Business For $850m

Deal would see Toshiba Tec become 'world's foremost retail point-of-sale systems company'

13 years ago

Hacker Exposes Three Million Iranian Bank Account Details

Iranian man posts debit and credit card details on his blog to highlight security vulnerabilities

13 years ago

MasterCard And Visa Warn Banks Of Credit Card Data Breach

Sources say that more than 10 million credit card numbers may be compromised

13 years ago

Osborne Opens Google’s Tech City Campus

Google's start up haven in London's Tech City has been launched by Chancellor Osborne

13 years ago

Microsoft Raids Hit Zeus Botnets

Operation b71 has brought down two major Zeus botnets but Microsoft warns that the Trojan is not dead

13 years ago

Budget 2012: Osborne Forgets The Needs Of Tech

It's not what George Osborne said that was disappointing, it's what he left out, says Tom Brewster

13 years ago

Budget 2012: Goodbye To the CRC Green Tax?

George Osborne may be right to call the CRC cumbersome, but he needs to create something to take its place,…

13 years ago

CeBIT 2012: Neelie Kroes Promises 9m Euros For Digital Single Market

The digital single market needs cross boarder services, says EU commissioner Kroes

13 years ago

Barclays Launches Pingit For Mobile Money Transfers

UK bank Barclays launches smartphone app allowing money to be sent and received using a phone number

13 years ago

Academics Develop Electronic Chequebook

Cheque payments could receive a new lease of life if banks adopt digital alternatives

13 years ago

Switch Off pcAnywhere Immediately To Avoid Security Risk Says Symantec

Symantec warns older versions of pcAnywhere are at "increased risk" following theft of source code

13 years ago

Cloud And SaaS Benefits Bolster Business Intelligence Market

Gartner has identified the drivers for the adoption of SaaS and cloud offerings for BI, analytics and performance management

13 years ago

Kodak Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Kodak has filed for chapeter 11 bankrupcy protection but vows to come out fighting in the end

13 years ago

Barclays Confirms 422 British IT Jobs To Go In Restructuring

Barclays is to axe 422 IT positions in the UK, with a further 200 positions being lost overseas as well

13 years ago

Jive IPO Sets Stage for Social Cloud Collaboration Boom

Jive Software's initial public offering earlier this month opened some eyes for skeptics of social enterprise software. Expect major consolidation…

13 years ago

Anonymous Beards The Banks To Play Twisted Santa Claus

Anonymous is playing Santa with a Robin Hood twist by hacking into banks to buy Christmas gifts for the "needy"

13 years ago

IBM’s Curam Buy Will Enhance Its Smarter Cities Effort

IBM's Curam Software acquisition will add a social services element to its Smarter Cities strategy

13 years ago

IBM Shops For Emptoris Supply Chain Procurement Cloud Service

Emptoris automates the complex buying, bidding and accounting process for enterprise procurement teams

13 years ago

Applications Riddled With Security Flaws: Veracode

The majority of applications scanned by Veracode's cloud-based testing tool held some kind of security flaw

13 years ago