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RSS incomeYahoo! profits dip - yet claims 'strong' Q2
News s earnings for its second quarter came in one cent lower than expectations, with net income declining 19 per cent, but the company called the quarter "strong". Using generally accepted accounting principles, the company's net income decreased 19... [23 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Clearly, counterfeit sales dilute the value of brands but they also undermine the integrity of auction sites and ultimately cost the economy millions of pounds in lost income. It signals a new intent to tighten online policing, says lawyer Simon... [22 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News The website points to increasing consumer inflation as the main factor driving IT workers to seek ways to supplement their income. He told silicon.com: "I've got a young family and the current environment doesn't look too good and isn't getting... [22 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment My company uses professional services to clean and enhance customer data, identifying attributes such as income, propensity to purchase certain products, specific spending habits and even personal demographics. [21 Jul 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News The country's big three outsourcers Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Wipro experienced slow revenue or income growth in their just-announced first quarter results for the period ended 30 June. [18 Jul 2008]
Number of free ATMs to increase by a third
News A government initiative that has rolled out 419 non-charging cash machines to low income areas is set to increase deployment by a third by the end of the year. As part of the initiative to locate free ATMs in low income areas, a premium on what... [18 Jul 2008]
Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity
White Paper Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. This paper shows that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility... [03 Jul 2008]
Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence From South African Pensions
White Paper This paper quantifies the impact on health status of a large, exogenous increase in income? Elderly Black and Colored men and women who did not anticipate receiving large pensions in their lifetimes, and who did not pay into a pension system, are... [03 Jul 2008]
IBM Grid Offering for IT Optimization: Financial Services
White Paper A difficult economic environment has reinforced the need for financial services organizations to better control their cost-to-income ratios. Financial services organizations, units that are trading different assets or entities that are engaged in... [03 Jul 2008]
Capabilities and Employability of Unwed Mothers
White Paper This paper assesses the economic capabilities of a sample of unwed mothers who gave birth in the spring of 1998 in hospitals that serve low-income residents in seven cities that are part of a national sampling frame. [03 Jul 2008]
Trends in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the U.S.
White Paper This paper examines the trend in intergenerational earnings mobility by estimating ordinary least squares, quantile regression, and transition matrix coefficients using five cohorts from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. [03 Jul 2008]
El Salvador Tax Authority Assures Resilient Tax Collection Support with IBM Information Management System
White Paper The El Salvador Tax Authority's antiquated information management and storage system was reducing staff productivity, preventing the organization from meeting its requirement to store and maintain tax data long-term and putting it at risk of... [03 Jul 2008]
San Francisco Health Plan Helps More People Access Affordable Healthcare by Simplifying IT Management
White Paper San Francisco Health Plan provides medical care to more than 50,000 low-income residents as well as a quarter of the city's children. They needed to ensure the reliability of its network, protect sensitive healthcare information from misuse and... [02 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up After a life at the grindstone of technology, he is now dedicating his life to philanthropic goals and (presumably) disposing of some of his considerable disposable income - heady times indeed for plaid shirt retailers in the Seattle area. [27 Jun 2008]
Oracle sees strong software profits
News Oracle said its net income for May quarter was $2.04bn, or 39 cents per diluted share, a jump of 27 per cent. Software licensing drove a healthy increase in revenue for Oracle during its fourth quarter. [26 Jun 2008]
