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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.
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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.

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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 that LivingSocial has selected its lead underwriters for an IPO that could value the company between $10 and $15 billion.

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Skullcandy IPO? Check Your Head.

If anyone needs proof the tech sector has entered extra-frothy, double-latte territory, it’s best to look past the immense valuations discussed for Groupon or Facebook.

Most Top Banks Have an App for That

The era of being afraid to bank on mobile phones seems over–at least from the banks’ point of view.

Larry Ellison: Behind the Kimono

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.

AOL-Yahoo Hookup, Not So Much Right Now (But Bankers Spinning? Much!)

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.

Exclusive: Yahoo CIO Kirwan Bids Adieu

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!

2010: Year of the Palm? Maybe Not…

Intel Beats Bust? Big Time

Intel Beats Bust? Big Time

2010: Year of the Palm?

IBM's Partly Cloudy Manifesto

IBM’s Partly Cloudy Manifesto

PRC Mulling "One-iPhone Policy"