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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

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Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The principle is simple – you lend to individuals at interest rates based on their credit rating, and since you’re cutting out the bank as middleman, both lender and depositer get more attractive interest rates than they can get commercially. Banks are the archetypical intermediary, in this case between depositers and lenders.

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Sell-side banks become consultants - Trends in the Living Networks

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As such, the emerging domain of algorithmic trading – which largely automates trade execution – is in fact providing new ways for investment banks to create high-value relationships with the clients. more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

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It is due to a phenomenon called Constant Partial Attention, or CPA, in which our attention is constantly divided between a massive array of channels now including mobile Internet, video screens on buses, and more. Sophisticated and with a social conscience, Gen Z has never lived without the internet or mobile phones. October 2005 (9).

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Lloyds TSB pilots social media - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» Lloyds TSB pilots social media Ross Dawson, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM US PT James Gardner, head of innovation at Lloyds TSB, writes consistently on his blog Bankervision , disclosing some of the key issues involved in innovating in a major bank. Some excerpts from his below show how blogging can change how corporations work.

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How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

For now it is being trialled in three large institutions, including a global retail bank with 70,000 staff that had received loud complaints from staff when it banned Facebook, and an investment bank that tried to implement an in-house social network based on Sharepoint that its employees didn’t use. So the excuses are running out.

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Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? - Trends in the Living Networks

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At the time I wrote about how mobiles are allowing Africa to leapfrog the fixed internet , and also about the potential and challenges of South Africa. Even landline phones are often not available, let alone fixed internet or other interactive devices. As a result, mobile banking and a vast array of mobile services are taking off fast.

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