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Time Warner Put the “For Sale” Sign on Time Inc. Last Fall
Jeff Bewkes and company used to insist they wanted to hang on to their magazine business. They stopped saying that in September.Silver Lake Contributed $1.4 Billion to Dell Buyout Offer, Filings Show
Details emerge on the deal.News Byte
mFoundry Acquired for $120 Million in Cash for Its Mobile Banking Tech
The original developer behind the Starbucks mobile application, mFoundry, has been acquired by FIS, which already owned a 22 percent stake in the company. FIS said it will pay $120 million in cash for the remaining stake, meaning the entire deal was worth around $165 million. Other investors in the nine-year-old company include MasterCard, Intel Capital, Motorola Mobility, PayPal, Bank of America and Ignition Partners. MFoundry had 850 clients, many of which were banks that deployed the company’s technology inside of their mobile apps.Another Square Copycat: Bank of America Launches Mobile Payments
Bank of America’s new mobile payment solution is a little larger and not quite Square, but operates a lot like the one being distributed by the Silicon Valley start-up.Voices
Email Giants Move to Slash “Phishing”
Email-service providers Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL Inc. are backing a new effort intended to dramatically reduce “phishing” emails — which attempt to trick recipients into thinking they come from a legitimate source.MasterCard Makes Its First Mobile Payments Investment in mFoundry
MasterCard has made a strategic investment in seven-year-old mobile banking start-up mFoundry.Voices
Financial Problems Could Shut WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks said it will shut down by year-end if financial-services companies don’t lift restrictions on donations that have hobbled the organization.Voices
BofA Blames Web Site Slowness on Upgrade
A botched technology upgrade was responsible for online banking problems that spilled into a sixth day at Bank of America Corp., inconveniencing customers and handing the biggest U.S. bank by assets fresh image problems.LivingSocial Moves Closer to $1 Billion IPO
It’s not official quite yet, but CNBC is reporting thatĀ LivingSocial has selected its lead underwriters for an IPO that could value the company between $10 and $15 billion.Voices





