Bank of America (BOA), Wells Fargo (WFC) End 2008 with Major Buyout Deals
Two major U.S. banking deals were completed yesterday (Thursday), enabling the suitors to finalize the deals before 2008 came to a close ... buyouts worldwide, and not lending at home, as a Money Morning investigative report demonstrated ... in merger advice in 2008, Thomson Reuters reported. The combined company’s brokerage, credit card [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 12:36:15
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Online finance flaw: Visa responds quickly to reported vulnerabilities
The American Express online flaw I discussed last week led to two interesting sidebars ... sites.To be fair, http://usa.visa.com itself appears to be sound; both Mike and I gave it a cursory ... to rehash all the problems XSS issues in major credit card company sites might cause (PCI [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 05:56:00
The Publishing Industry Needs to Embrace Technology
During Book Expo America, ebooks were the hot topic. A report from the New York Times signaled that there is some within the industry who are fearful ... booksellers the right to return unsold books for credit. National Book Company in Dunnsmore, PA, a major [more...]
Date: 2008-06-15 09:00:20
Video Metadata Key Strategic Importance For Online Video Publishers - Part 1
Video metadata has become a strategically critical factor in the successful creation and distribution of video content on the Internet. [ ... credit: SSilver As major search engines can't yet make sense of what is being said inside a video ... . In the following two-part report entitled "The Currency of Internet Video", Gotuit, a company specializing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 11:38:00
Roche Cutting Hundreds of Manufacturing Jobs
We hate to bring out the layoff ax again so soon, but the legions working for drug companies seem to be shrinking by the day ... jobs, the WSJ reports. The cuts will take place over the next two to three years, and come on top ... credit crunch and questions about price. Speaking of cuts, Hunziker said the majority of cost savings [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 13:30:42
Why is Equifax not reporting my information of credit history?
bamagrits84 asked: I got my first credit card in June of 2006. My payments have never been late. Every 30 days the credit card company reports account status to all 3 major credit reporting ... it at all! I had to pay Equifax $20 for my credit report just to try to dispute it and now I get a bunch [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 20:51:38
The loan money i$ out there…….
Qualifying for a mortgage is not nearly as easy these days as it was just a couple of years ago, ... . All of us can get copies of their credit reports from each of the three major reporting companies at no charge ... before the subprime-loan-market collapse and the worldwide credit freeze. Still, mortgages [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:02:23
Why Dirty Fuel Companies Should be Worrying
Almost every day now, a major media outlet carries a story about the dangers to alternative energy development because of the economic crisis ... and investors. On Thursday, for example, Consol Energy reported that the credit crunch had caused ... out. As the Associated Press reported: "Credit woes have dealt a major setback to Consol Energy's plans [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 16:58:14
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