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Ben Worthen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 30 at 4:30 am PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 30, 2011 at 9:03 pm PT
MasterCard has made a strategic investment in seven-year-old mobile banking start-up mFoundry.
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Paul Sonne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 24, 2011 at 11:45 am PT
WikiLeaks said it will shut down by year-end if financial-services companies don’t lift restrictions on donations that have hobbled the organization.
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David Benoit, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 6, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 8, 2011 at 12:57 pm PT
It’s not official quite yet, but CNBC is reporting that LivingSocial has selected its lead underwriters for an IPO that could value the company between $10 and $15 billion.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 26, 2011 at 9:50 am PT
The era of being afraid to bank on mobile phones seems over–at least from the banks’ point of view.
John Paczkowski in News on December 2, 2010 at 10:25 am PT
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has a mythology worthy of Edith Hamilton, full of corporate conquest, danger at sea and the odd fountain of youth quest, so Bloomberg Television’s “Game Changers” feature on him tonight sounds quite promising.
Kara Swisher in News on November 7, 2010 at 9:39 pm PT
While a merger of AOL and Yahoo is a fervent dream of bankers looking for fees, the reality is a little more–shall we say–premature.
In fact, it’s likely it was just those dealmakers, looking to gin up some activity, who are behind the latest
spin-riffic article in The Wall Street Journal that reports on machinations by AOL to hire unnamed advisers to carry out all kinds of complex deals, especially related to Yahoo.
Actually, it is the complexity of any of those deals that has put a lot of the takeover, buyout, merger and other scenarios on ice.
Kara Swisher in News on November 4, 2010 at 2:45 pm PT
As part of BoomTown’s duty as internal jobs board for Yahoo, here’s another departure: CIO Mike Kirwan.
According to his Yahoo bio, he had “global responsibility for Yahoo!’s Corporate Systems group, which includes the IT Infrastructure, Corporate Applications, CRM and Premium Services Infrastructure teams. These teams ensure Yahoo!’s internal systems and billing/anti-fraud services are available 24/7.”
In other words, the guy who keeps the lights on!
