Dutch bank ABN AMRO former employees set up their own company in the Netherlands and Britain, called Aethra Asset Management. The new company will service institutional clients and retail investors too. Aethra's first products will be created by employees who

Citi, US banking giant, partners with MasterCard, Nokia, Vodafone and ViVOtech in order to launch contactless mobile phone payments services in Bangalore, India. "Tap and Pay" trial allows users to make credit card payments via their mobile phones. The process

Barclaycard releases waterslide game for the iPhones. That game has 9 levels. Player needs to steer a character down the waterslide as fast as possible and collect points simultaneously. A new game will be available for available in the middle

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) made recently its intervention in the battle between collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers Australia and local councils. It demanded the Federal Court judge hearing a dispute to leave it in order to make

Online payment services provider Paysafecard has partnered with the Spanish bank Caixa Galicia and the Spanish processing partner TelePay to extend its prepaid services offering. Now Internet users can purchase vouchers for online shopping at any of the bank's cash

More and more owners of various businesses are choosing the production of their own videos as marketing tools of their companies while video hosting sites as YouTube, Blip.tv, and others are making the share of them easy. The appearance of

iPhone has a unique feature which enables users to upload a photo or video directly from the phone to a MobileMe gallery and there is no need to remember an account password. However, one drawback arises when there is more

According to the data provided by the Equifax Canada over half a million Canadians are more than three months behind on their credit payments which is a 19% increase in the average delinquency rate in the year ending May 31.

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A recent study commissioned by the National Retail Federation and conducted by BIGresearch shows that during June and July 2009 just 14% of Americans are planning to purchase patriotic merchandise (flags, clothing, decorations or bumper stickers). Meantime, about half of

Google Apps users will now be able to share templates together. The new feature is one of the updates that Google has made to its online applications product. The company already has a template gallery for Google Docs where people

GoECart, the market-leading provider of ecommerce solutions for internet retailers, today announced the launch of a newly designed, customer-focused, and interactive website. The site has been transformed to bring the best-of-breed experience customers have come to expect using GoECart's ecommerce

73 % of consumers surveyed in the United States, France and Great Britain say that more stringent standards are required before they will trust the security of their credit card transactions. And almost half (46 %) are concerned about the

E-commerce company Alibaba.com has appointed Truly London to spearhead a major campaign across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in a bid to boost its brand awareness. Truly was appointed following a three-way pitch with other undisclosed agencies. It forms

PlaySpan, the leader in global monetization solutions for 1,000 online games, virtual worlds, and social networks, today announced that its Ultimate Game Card has expanded into Brazil, Turkey, and several other countries. In Turkey, Ultimate Game Card will be available

In Washington, the EPA announced that it is extending the comment period on the its proposed rule revising the national Renewable Fuel Standard program, commonly referred to as RFS2. The original comment period was to end on July 27, 2009

In Wisconsin, Virent Energy Systems was awarded the EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Small Business Award for its development of a proces to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon fuels. Virent was ranked #3 in Biofuels Digest's 50 Hottest Companies in

Greenchipstocks neatly summarized a presentation by Don Paul, Executive Director of the University of Southern California Energy Institute, giving five reasons why Big Oil is "coming to cleantech," and five more as to why Big Oil is headed for a

In New Mexico, the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management has upgraded its Algae Biofuels Project from pilot scale to the commercial demonstration level. The project is located at the New Mexico State University Agriculture Science Center and will

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