Alternative lenders are filling in the shoes of commercial banks in Europe that have reduced lending, allowing small firms to still raise funds, Bloomberg reported.
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Israel-based XLMedia seeks to raise $40M in gaming float
XLMedia, the digital media firm that brings traffic for online gaming sites, intends to secure $40 million in a London stock market flotation, the Financial Times reported.
People, not PCI standards, cause data breaches
The said failure of PCI standards is not the reason why payment card data breaches are taking place. Rather, it's the attitude of the people, according to Christian Janoff, a Security Solution Architect of Cisco Systems, in his VentureBeat guest post.
Obama administration's ConnectED Initiative gets two more backers in Prezi and Adobe
Technology firms Prezi and Adobe are the two latest supporters of President Barack Obama's ConnectED Initiative which seeks to bring American education in step with modern technologies.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says central bank has no authority to regulate digital currency
In her testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that the Fed does not possess any authority to supervise the Bitcoin, The Wall Street Journal blog MoneyBeat reported.
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Investors of large consumer food companies want them to take bolder action than just merely cutting costs as their smaller competitors take on risks and increase market share, Reuters reported.
The potential use of big data by insurance firms to create a profile of possible policyholders carries with it advantages and drawbacks, the Financial Times reported.
Last year was a sleepy one for mergers and acquisitions in the metals sector with only 357 metal deals completed compared to the 507 deals from the previous year, the Financial Times reported citing figures released by PwC.
Limiting conditions like poor infrastructure and the lack of convenient payment systems have not prevented the e-commerce industry from burgeoning in Indonesia, the Financial Times reported.
The behavior of users is the biggest risk factor for mobile threats, according to a report from mobile security firm Lookout entitled "Mobile Threats, Made to Measure," VentureBeat reported.
In response to a petition filed on the online platform WeThePeople, the White House reaffirmed its backing for net neutrality in an official blog post written by Gene Sperling and Todd Park.
Aside from robbing income from original makers of content, piracy websites also make around $4.4 million annually from ads, according to a study published by Digital Citizens Alliance.
Asian chat services KakaoTalk, LINE and WeChat threaten to overturn the mobile order of things, usurping the role of Google Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and telecoms carriers as gatekeeper to the consumer.
A New Zealand court on Wednesday ruled that the search warrant used in the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on U.S. online piracy charges was legal, dealing a blow to the internet entrepreneur's fight against extradition to the United States.
