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NewsMainframes to storm financial services?
IBM (IBM news) announced its latest mainframe line, the zEnterprise, with some eye-catching claims. It touts the new product as the most powerful mainframe ever with tremendous energy efficiency; the... Read more...
Tech firms to jump into ... mutual funds?
The Boston Globe offers an interesting column suggesting the likes of Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon.com--perhaps even Wal-Mart--will someday want to jump into the financial services industry,... Read more...
IT recruiting wars heating up again?
For employees who survived the financial crunch of recent years, they might soon reap the rewards, according to a recent survey. In the financial services industry, IT professionals are reaping gains... Read more...
Tibco shows how to leverage financial technology
Tibco Software is well known in the financial services industry for its infrastructure software. More specifically, the firm's "TIB" (which stands for "The Information Bus") technology has long been... Read more...
SS&C's initial public offering on tap
The banking industry has been battered, and that has crimped IT spending , obviously. But at some point the good times will roll again. Has SS&C timed the recovery just about right? We'll see.... Read more...
Rogues turning to Twitter
Twitter has emerged as handy tool for rogues and hackers. First Direct, an online bank in the United Kingdom , learned this the hard way when hackers took control of the bank's Twitter account to... Read more...
The big picture: IBM and the financial services industry
If you aim to really own the financial services industry (financial services news) as a tech vendor, you had better be more than a product pusher--a simple reseller. It's all about subscription... Read more...
Data center boom continues in New Jersey
We've suggested that New Jersey is emerging as perhaps one of the key data center capitals of the world. Even with the recession and financial crisis, all signs point to the boom continuing. We've... Read more...
More on Citi's mobile strategy
Citigroup (C) certainly has a lot on its plate right now, which we've discussed in full over at FierceFinance. But while there have been plenty of distractions related to the overall health of the... Read more...
IT execs fear retribution
Are IT workers a vindictive bunch? Well, you could make a decent case. If you've ever worked at a small financial tech firm, you've probably known a few of the tech guys who at some point started to... Read more...
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