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

CIO Business Intelligence

Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. May 2007: Autonomy spins off its Blinkx consumer software unit in an IPO. October 2007: Autonomy acquires data management specialist Meridio for £20 million.

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO Business Intelligence

This year, Singapore-based Whampoa Group also selected Bahrain as the HQ location for its new digital bank. The long-term plan kicked off in 2007 with a strategy to digitise government. The story of success From the start, the Bahraini government’s digital transformation plan was comprehensive and bold. So far, so good.

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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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Technology News and Hot Topics

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Royal Bank to test out Toronto company’s Nymi technology. The bank has paired with Toronto-based technology developer Bionym to test a wristband called Nymi (pronounced Nim-ee), which identifies owners through their unique heartbeat and then lets them charge purchases to their credit card.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

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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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

GeekWire

Co-founder and CEO : Matt Oppenheimer , head of mobile and internet banking initiatives at Barclays Kenya. Founded : 2007. GeekWire story from July 2020 : Another unicorn in Seattle: Digital remittance startup Remitly raises $85M at $1.5B Valuation : $1.5 billion (as of July 2020). GeekWire 200 rank : No. Founded : 2011.

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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

Ross Dawson, December 19, 2007 2:44 PM US PT I have written and being interviewed many times in the last few months on the use of Facebook in organizations. Financial market traders started using IM because it was useful, but banks were concerned about security and audit trails. The same thing is happening with social networks.

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