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News The continuing boom in mergers and acquisitions along with increased transaction volumes are leading to higher demand for IT contractors within investment banks and hedge funds, said Matthew Brown, managing director of contractor services company... [03 Jan 2007]
iTunes sales row data over-hyped
News Since publication of the report, Apple's stock dropped three per cent and one of the analysts behind the report, Josh Bernoff, has received calls from worried hedge fund managers, according to his blog. [14 Dec 2006]
Google lets staff auction stock options
News To hedge their bets, financial institutions may 'short' the stock, usually a complicated, three-way transaction where the short-seller makes money when a company's stock price goes down. Google plans to start an unorthodox stock options programme... [13 Dec 2006]
isoutsource.com Implements Tahoma Capital#$#s Network Infrastructure on Schedule - Despite Construction Delays and Other Obstacles
White Paper Startup hedge fund Tahoma Capital incorporated in October 2005, with a goal of opening its new offices February 1, 2006. That gave the firm less than four months to locate and build out office space and get its IT infrastructure operational. [28 Sep 2006]
Hedge funds to spend $3.3bn on tech
News Hedge funds are ramping up their use of technology to cope with increased financial regulations and lower profit margins. As a result, global hedge fund investment in IT is set to reach $3.3bn by 2009, according to a study by analyst Datamonitor. [31 Aug 2006]
Gravitas Technology Case Study: Leading Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund
White Paper The client is a U.S.equity long/short hedge fund. The challenge was to design, implement, and support disaster recovery solutions for their email and high-volume trade order management system. Gravitas Technology designed and implemented a complete... [10 Aug 2006]
IT contractors flock to booming City firms
News Financial services is now the fastest growing sector for the use of IT contractors in the UK on the back of booming profits and regulatory compliance initiatives that are driving a new wave of IT investment by investment banks and hedge funds. [07 Jun 2006]
Does this man have the best job in IT?
News The CTO for DreamWorks Animation - the studio that created movies including Shrek, Shark Tale and its latest, Over the Hedge - said: "I think I have the coolest job on the planet. Over the Hedge is the studio's most ambitious computer-generated... [23 May 2006]
Opinion: Beware the multi-sourcing pitfalls
Comment Businesses can hedge their bets by utilising a basket of expert suppliers, rather than a single behemoth. With the dust barely settled on the outsourcing mega-deal obituaries, the hype around the trend for using multiple suppliers - multi-sourcing... [21 Apr 2006]
Financial Firms Using Communicator Inc's Hub Connex Group Chat to Share Market Information
White Paper Hub Connex launched its enterprise group discussion Forums in 2001 and now hosts over 5,000 group Forums, with the world's largest broker-dealers and hundreds of investment management firms and hedge funds. [15 Sep 2005]
Has C&W won the Energis bidding war?
News With debts of around £700m, Energis' future lies in the hands of the investment banks, hedge funds and other bodies which hold Energis bonds and debts. Cable & Wireless (C&W) and Thus have clashed in a battle to buy fellow telco Energis, as both... [15 Aug 2005]
Inflation, Inequality and Social Conflict
White Paper Agents' income levels determine their ability to hedge against the effects of inflation. This paper presents a political economy model of inflation as a result of social conflict. Agents are heterogeneous in terms of income. [20 May 2005]
Sun CEO blasts buyout rumour
News On Friday, BusinessWeek quoted an unnamed hedge fund manager as saying McNealy is considering taking Sun private with the aid of Silver Lake Partners: an investment firm that bought out Seagate Technology and eventually relaunched it as a publicly... [03 May 2005]
Eastleigh Borough Council: Using Local Area Committees
White Paper This includes: Chandlers Ford and Hiltingbury; Bishopstoke, Fairoak and Horton Heath; Eastleigh; Hedge End, West End, Botley and Bursledon; Hamble-le-Rice and Hound. Eastleigh Borough Council has five Local Area Committees (LAC's). [28 Apr 2005]
Futures traders accused of software patent breach
News A leading US trading software firm has filed a lawsuit against UK hedge-fund company Man Group in the row over claims that a patent awarded last year entitles it to a share of trading revenue on futures exchanges. [15 Apr 2005]
