News: Business & Finance

• Stimulus for tech and telecom $3B, but jobs still guesswork
  Patrick Thibodeau
  Nov 06 2009

  WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has spent about $700 million on IT and telecommunications products and services under its economic stimulus program, part of a total of $3 billion that's in the ...

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• Broadband chip maker MaxLinear files for IPO
  Dean Takahashi
  Nov 06 2009

  Broadband communications chip maker MaxLinear has filed to go public in another indicator that the good times are back for tech stocks and exits. Carlsbad, Calif.-based MaxLinear makes analog or ...

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• WITSA: ICT infrastructure in developing countries imperative
  MIS Asia writer
  Nov 06 2009

  Information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure acts like a powerful magnet for business opportunities and other economic benefits. For this reason, the World Information Technology ...

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• Weak supplier management placing £200bn projects 'at risk'
  Leo King
  Nov 06 2009

  Government projects worth a total of £200 billion (US$331 billion) are being put at risk by Whitehall's lack of commercial expertise, according to a damning report. The value for money on 43 ...

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• Intel antitrust, 'Net bug, coding error
  Nancy Weil
  Nov 06 2009

  New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed federal antitrust charges against Intel this week, with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission expected to follow suit. Security problems yet again snagged a ...

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• LinkedIn gets a cleaner layout
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 06 2009

  Professional networking site LinkedIn says it’s experimenting with a new layout. The redesign has only been rolled out for some users, so I’m not seeing it in my own account yet, but the ...

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• Happy Droid Day!
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 06 2009

  After weeks of speculation, followed by a real announcement, followed by more waiting, Motorola and Verizon have finally released the Droid, the supposed iPhone-killer which is the first device using ...

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• UBS fined £8m for system and data control failures
  Leo King
  Nov 06 2009

  The Financial Services Authority has issued an £8 million (US$13.2 million) fine to UBS, after system and control failures at the bank enabled employees to make unauthorised trades using customer ...

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• Australian Geodynamics wins $90M to make hot-rock power a reality
  Tom Slater
  Nov 06 2009

  Geodynamics, a company that draws emissions-free power from hot fractured rocks beneath the earth’s surface, has just won $90 million from Australia’s Renewable Energy Demonstration ...

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• Businesses: Prep now to avoid H1N1 flu outages later
  Tam Harbert
  Nov 06 2009

  Last spring, when the first cases of H1N1 flu appeared, Gartner Inc. was getting lots of calls from alarmed clients wanting to know if and how they should adjust their disaster recovery plans. Now? ...

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