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Government u-turn on private finance for IT
News The government has scrapped the use of controversial Private Finance Initiative deals for public sector IT contracts following a catalogue of costly high-profile projects. One of the objectives of using the PFI model in IT was to introduce third...
[July 17, 2003, 15:53]
Amazon appoints new finance executive
News Since then, chief accounting officer Mark Peek has been leading the finance team, an Amazon representative said. Amazon.com has appointed a new chief financial officer, hiring Tom Szkutak away from General Electric.
[August 30, 2002, 14:59]
Google launches Finance beta
News Google has launched a beta of Google Finance, a Web site aggregating information about public and private companies and mutual funds that features an interactive chart correlating news and other events with stock price spikes and falls.
[March 21, 2006, 8:50]
HP stretches finance for storage buyers
News With users needing encouragement before they buy more hardware, generous terms are required, so vendors with enough clout are relying more on their finance arms. HP's financial services division is one of the largest IT finance companies, and the...
[January 21, 2003, 8:34]
NI finance department opens access to data
News Northern Ireland's finance department is publishing sets of non-personal data online with the aim of improving public access. OpenDataNI will demonstrate to other Northern Ireland civil service departments the benefits of allowing publicly...
[August 17, 2009, 16:18]
Avaya extends zero-percent finance scheme
News The communications company Avaya has announced it is to make all of its products available to European enterprise customers on a zero-percent finance scheme. Avaya already offered zero-percent finance to its small to medium-sized enterprise...
[July 16, 2008, 15:20]
US Report: Fee-based finance sites on a roll
News But finance sites aren't the only ones attracting subscribers, although progress has been much slower outside the Wall Street space. TheStreet.com, which offers news and commentary on stocks, funds, market trends and international market...
[May 8, 1998, 8:10]
Juniper faces delisting after finance probe
News Juniper Networks faces being delisted from the Nasdaq share index after revealing the extent of irregularities around stock options at the company. On Thursday, Juniper revealed the conclusions of an internal review conducted by its audit committee...
[August 11, 2006, 13:35]
IBM seeks finance sales
News IBM is putting together packages of software and services tailored to financial services companies, as part of a push to tune its sales efforts to the needs of specific industries. On Monday, Big Blue is expected to release IBM Middleware Solutions...
[February 2, 2004, 8:40]
Finance giant shows interest in Linux
News Financial services company ING Group has joined the list of large companies using the Linux operating system as a low-cost way to upgrade IT infrastructure, having bought a Linux-powered IBM zSeries mainframe to replace several older machines.
[July 8, 2003, 13:17]
Treasury denies new tax on PCs
News The Treasury has denied reports that the current Finance Bill contains proposals to impose a stealth tax on businesses and employees for computer use at work. Redston said that in a worst case scenario the removal of the Home Computing Initiative...
[May 3, 2006, 11:05]
Quicken maker pushes into network monitoring
News Intuit expanded its push into IT management products on Wednesday and released new versions of its market-leading Quicken personal finance products. Also on Wednesday, Intuit released new versions of Quicken, which has dominated the market for...
[August 12, 2004, 10:50]
BT announces Danon's successor
News The successor to BT Retail CEO Pierre Danon has been named as current group finance director Ian Livingston. Still only 40, he came to prominence as one of the team that helped with the stellar rise of ISP Freeserve, when he was finance director at...
[December 13, 2004, 12:16]
IT workers' mood hit by economic slowdown
News But confidence among finance professionals working in the IT industry has also taken a knock, falling more than eight percentage points since the beginning of the year. The summer 2005 ICAEW/Orange UK Business Confidence Monitor surveyed 1,107...
[August 9, 2005, 9:15]
£20bn gov't scheme to help SMEs in credit crunch
News The government has introduced measures to give small and medium-sized businesses access to up to £20bn in loan finance, aimed at helping companies during the credit crunch. We know that some companies are struggling to secure the finance they need...
[January 14, 2009, 14:24]
Intuit shuts Quicken Online, turns focus to Mint.com
News Intuit, maker of Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax, will shut down its free Quicken Online personal finance site in six to nine months and focus on newly bought Mint.com. That made Mint founder and chief executive Aaron Patzer the new vice president...
[November 6, 2009, 16:28]
Quantas chooses AIX to replace Linux
News Qantas will next month shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's Unix variant AIX as part of its wide-ranging eQ transformation project. We're moving from a Linux platform to an IBM AIX environment — we...
[April 30, 2007, 8:46]
IT spending soars in financial sector
News Finance companies are ramping up their expenditure on IT, while computing expenditure is draining away from the public sector. The finance sector is the UK's top industry sector for IT spending, as it buys the most products and services and also...
[November 6, 2006, 12:59]
MicrosoftÂ’s Money 2001 gets personal
News The battle for leadership of personal finance software is heating up. To be sure, the two biggest players in the personal finance software category are Microsoft, with Money, and Intuit, with Quicken.
[August 15, 2000, 10:15]
Facebook: A boon to business security?
News While some employers are banning staff from accessing Facebook, fearing security risks and lowered productivity, GE Commercial Finance is encouraging use of the social networking site to improve staff security practices.
[October 29, 2007, 9:25]
