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News But how about trading in your entire workplace? Elsewhere on silicon.com in the last month, Orange-flavoured iPhones were causing a fair bit of excitement, first up as the mobile operator announced its launch date and... [30 Nov 2009]
Austrian Trading Company for Fixings Accelerates Order Process by Almost One Day
White Paper Wurth wanted greater automation and data exchange for its order management system. With a beta-version Microsoft solution in mind, the company looked for an IT services organisation and the latest business technology. [28 Aug 2009]
Google's $106.5m software buy to be challenged in court
News Under the terms of the stock swap, which was announced earlier this month, each share of On2 will be exchanged for 60 cents' worth of Google common stock - a 57 per cent premium over On2's closing stock price on the last... [13 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Baker's dozen - a lesson for broadband
Comment A few centuries on from the initiation of the baker's dozen, and we have trading standards funded and operated by the government. If two of us purchase a broadband service of 'up to' 8Mbps at £22 per month, and I get... [11 Jun 2009]
£70bn birthday present for Faster Payments service
News Despite growth in the use of Faster Payments, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) recently warned that consumers could be losing millions with banks not moving fast enough to take up the service. According to figures from... [27 May 2009]
Faster Payments too slow: Consumers lose £38m
News Almost a year after its launch, consumers are still not getting the benefit of the Faster Payments Service, according to the Office of Fair Trading - and could be losing millions as a result. However, the Office of Fair... [27 Mar 2009]
Palm grabs $84m in stock sale
News Palm shares rose sharply in early morning trading Tuesday, after the smartphone maker increased the size of its secondary offering and netted $83.9m. Palm resold 23.13 million shares, as part of a follow-on offering it... [11 Mar 2009]
UK spent £4.7bn online over Christmas
News Getting an extra day's trading in can be crucial for some big retailers. It could mean the difference of 20,000 extra orders, meaning £1m of extra business for a large retailer on the last... [15 Jan 2009]
Play.com gets 1,000-order-a-minute Xmas
News Play.com said peak trading came on 8 December, or Mega Monday as it has come to be known. The day saw volumes reaching 1,000 orders per minute, up from a peak of 700 orders a minute in Christmas 2007. [02 Jan 2009]
The City fund manager with no IT department
Comment We use an outsourced email service but we use Bloomberg as our core operational application that presents to us our portfolios and allows the functionality of trading. We have very sophisticated compliance engines on the... [02 Dec 2008]
Ballmer: "We've moved on" from Yahoo! buy
News s shares jumped as high as 16 per cent in intraday trading, following the news about Yang. The reaction comes just a day after Yahoo! Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer threw water on the notion that the... [20 Nov 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News Garlik CEO Tom Ilube attributed the rise to the "professionalisation of online financial fraud" saying cyber criminals were turning to "sophisticated and professional techniques for trading and selling personal data for... [30 Oct 2008]
eBay not bidding on positive fourth quarter
News The company's shares fell 13.6 per cent, or $2.41, to close trading Wednesday at $15.33. In after hours, shares of eBay were trading at 14.22, down $1.11 or seven per cent. Shares of Apple dropped more... [16 Oct 2008]
Oracle reports strong Q1 profit growth
News During regular trading, Oracle closed at $18.75 per share - up nearly 3.6 per cent for the day. Investors applauded Oracle's first-quarter performance, sending its stock up in after-hours... [19 Sep 2008]
Stock Exchange back to normal after outage
News The outage was not fixed until 16:30(BST) yesterday afternoon, effectively wiping a full day's trading from the books. The London Stock Exchange is back to normal after an outage yesterday that ceased... [09 Sep 2008]
