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New SEC guidelines: blogs can be used for investor disclosure - CEO blogging to surge?

Trends in the Living Networks

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced new guidelines (available in the next week or two) that will recognize the role of blogs in disclosing investor-sensitive information to the public. There is particularly good analysis of the announcement from Brian Solis on Techcrunch and on PR2.0 , IRWebReport , and Tom Foremski.

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Expedia’s Vrbo vacation rental business sees ‘significant’ growth as travel giant aims to cut costs

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billion in 2015 to acquire HomeAway, which bought Vrbo in 2005. Vrbo released new cleanliness guidelines for homeowners and added a cleanliness search filter to its site in May. Expedia paid $3.9 Vrbo competes with Airbnb and is live in 15 countries.

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Complying With Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rules

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HIPAA was enacted in 1996, and by April 2005 security standards were required to be in place for most covered entities. In 2013 key portions of this law were updated. This post provides an overview of key elements we believe security and technology professionals (and most citizens) should be tracking.

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator

GeekWire

Founded in 2005, YC is one of the leading startup accelerators. In general, that has been slowing a lot of similar startups; however, we are helping our prospects in setting up these guidelines to make sure that every company leverages AI and empower their users and employees in turn.

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What is TOGAF? An enterprise architecture methodology for business

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s currently no information on updated guidelines for TOGAF 10 certification, but the article will be updated as new information is released. The Open Group took over TOGAF in 2005 and released TOGAF 8.1.1 TOGAF 9 was introduced in 2009, with new details on the overall framework, including increased guidelines and techniques.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, brokerage firm Pershing reduced its incident response time by 50% in the first year after restructuring its service desk according to ITIL guidelines, enabling users with problems to get back to work much more quickly. How does ITIL reduce costs?

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What is COBIT? A framework for alignment and governance

CIO Business Intelligence

COBIT 4 was released in 2005, followed by the refreshed COBIT 4.1 It’s also well suited to organizations that are required to follow specific regulatory guidelines from the government and local authorities. These updates included more information regarding governance surrounding information and communication technology.