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Cloud demonstrates a silver lining for Financial Services organisations looking to improve supply chain collaboration
May 20th, 2015
A shift in thinking across the financial services sector, embracing the advantages of private cloud software delivery, has seen leading eProcurement software provider Wax Digital pick up six new clients in the sector in the last six months, including ...
KPMG Wins Two Consulting Excellence Awards from the Association of Management Consulting Firms
May 18th, 2015
KPMG announced that two client service teams were the recipients of two awards from the Association of Management Consulting Firms (AMCF). Now in its fourth year, the AMCF Awards are given to projects that best illustrate how consulting teams add ...
Microsoft Is Said to Evaluate Possible Bid for Salesforce
May 6th, 2015
Microsoft Corp. is evaluating a bid for Salesforce.com Inc., after the cloud software provider was approached by another would-be buyer, people with knowledge of the matter said. Salesforce, which has a market value of almost $50 billion, is working ...
Companies Dropping the Ball on Risk, Compliance
March 5th, 2015
Companies are woefully unprepared to deal with the increasingly challenging risk and compliance environment, and the blitz of devastating corporate blunders witnessed in 2014 will recur, and then some, this year, says Forrester Research in a scathing new report. ...
Nasdaq nears all-time highs as exuberance yields to reason
February 20th, 2015
As the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index closes in on the all-time high it reached in March 2000, investors are facing a market that barely resembles the go-go era of 15 years ago. Valuations, as measured by what investors are willing to ...
10 ‘poorest’ companies make investors rich
September 10th, 2014
Investors love to think companies with piles of cash must surely make them rich, too. But this year, it’s the companies with the least moolah that are making the most cash for investors. The 10 companies in the Standard ...
Facebook market cap tops $200bn
September 9th, 2014
Facebook’s market capitalisation topped $200bn for the first time on Monday, beating rival Google in the time it took since going public to reach the symbolic figure. As well as outstripping the valuation of much older technology companies including ...
Microsoft Cloud Service Azure Experienced Global Outage
August 19th, 2014
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Azure cloud-computing service, a critical part of Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella’s plan to remake the software company, experienced a major global outage yesterday that lasted for around five hours. Azure, which lets businesses access computing ...
Alibaba’s Behemoth IPO Making Few Ripples in Washington
July 11th, 2014
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA)’s proposal for what could be the largest initial stock offering in U.S. history is sailing through Washington with few bumps. While a federal commission has warned that the offering by the world’s biggest Internet ...
IBM to bet $3 billion over five years hoping for breakthrough in chips
July 10th, 2014
IBM announced on Wednesday it will invest $3 billion over the next five years in chip research and development in hopes of finding a game-changing breakthrough that can help revive its slumping hardware unit. IBM announced the plan a ...