Archive for April, 2008

Mawarid Finance acquires Al Jazeera Financial Services

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

This comes as a first-of-its-kind step for Mawarid since being launched and part of an optimistic plan to expand and acquire a number of successful companies working in complementary or parallel fields to that of Mawarid.
Al Jazeera was launched as a private equity company in Dubai in 2005 with a paid up capital of […]

npower Survey Shows Business Energy Users Fear Carbon Cutting Regulation will Make UK Uncompetitive

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

A survey of British businesses, conducted by npower business has revealed strong concerns that Government regulation to reduce carbon emissions will make the UK uncompetitive and add more costs than benefits.
The fifth npower Business Energy Index (nBEI 5) canvassed 200 senior managers and energy buyers at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large industrial firms […]

Wikis are Gaining Foothold in the Enterprise, but Not Without Challenges

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Aarhus, Denmark - J. Boye, an independent analyst firm focusing on online media, has found that wikis are increasingly gaining foothold in the enterprise due to it promises of simplicity. Yet, wikis introduce complex challenges for organisations, on a strategic level as well as on the level of actual content creation. Many are surprised by […]

SearchMyLoan.com Announces Alliance with Strategic Information Resources

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. - SearchMyLoan.com (SML), a provider of loan search and pricing services for the mortgage industry, announced its alliance with Springfield, Mass.-based Strategic Information Resources (SIR), a national provider of credit reports, mortgage reports and background screening services.
Through the alliance, SIR’s database of credit reports and related information fully integrates into SML’s search […]

Drijo Is The Ebay Of Car Pooling And Powered By Google Maps Api

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

In a visually very attractive way the Internet platform offers a simple method to overlay and compare routes of drivers and potential passengers. ‘Using an auction-based method similar to other popular auction sites should’, according to the CEO Walter, ‘animate more drivers to offer rides, especially on highly demanded routes.’
DriJo with its auction-based ride-sharing model […]

XING Locates Business Contacts With Google Maps

Friday, April 25th, 2008

XING (www.xing.com) today announced a new feature with which its members can view the distribution of their business network with Google Maps. The integration of Google Maps into the XING platform gives members a new perspective on their personal network, visualizing geographic locations of their direct business contacts on a map or satellite display. Contacts’ […]

Diamond Glass Wins Final Approval from Bankruptcy Court for $7 Million Debtor-In-Possession Financing Facility & Continuation of an Auction Sale Process Aimed at Preserving the Business

Friday, April 25th, 2008

KINGSTON, Pa - DIAMOND GLASS announced today that in hearings this afternoon in its chapter 11 case in Wilmington, Delaware, the United States Bankruptcy Judge presiding over its case gave final approval to borrow $7 million in new debtor-in-possession financing from Guggenheim Corporate Funding LLC (as agent for the senior secured lenders, inclusive of the […]

PerTOOLS Announce a new Asian Distributor

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Today in London PerTOOLS, the provider of Time Series Analysis and Data Extractor tools announced that they have appointed Columbia CP, the Asia-based specialist software reseller as their newest Distributor. Columbia CP serves the entire Asia Region from their offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and The Philippines. This […]

Click fraud: A serious threat to the internet economy

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Advtise.com (http://www.advtise.com), a leading pay per click company has dedicate a 70% of its resources for developing a unique Anti-Fraud sophisticated system that eliminates click-fraud and maximizes advertiser s performance. “…Click fraud is a serious trend to our industry, Click-fraud criminals are using rolling-IP attacks from multiple countries. We in Advtise.com, are focused on Research […]

Credit Suisse reports loss

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Credit Suisse has reported a loss for the first three months of the year, hit by its exposure to the credit markets.
The bank made a net loss of 2.1bn Swiss francs ($2.1bn; £1.0bn) after writing down 5.3bn Swiss francs in mortgage securities and big buyout loans.
It had made a net profit of 2.7bn Swiss francs […]