http://www.eweek.com Finance - RSS Feeds en-us Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:08:28 -0400 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:08:28 -0400 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:41:59 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Tech-States-Still-Hiring-for-IT-Jobs/?kc=rss - Talk of recession is at fever pitch, fanned by the news that the august Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns went belly-up on March 14. With sluggish hiring, spiraling fuel costs and the mortgage foreclosure crisis gripping the nation, it would seem to be only common sense to say that IT is one ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Tech-States-Still-Hiring-for-IT-Jobs/?kc=rss Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:28:23 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Bear-Stearns-Collapse-Means-Trouble-for-IT/?kc=rss - Over the weekend, the IT world was transformed. Chances are you didn't notice. No, Vista SP1 wasn't released, neither was XP SP3, nor the beta of Ubuntu 8.04. What did happen was that on Friday, March 14, the major Wall Street bank Bear Stearns collapsed. Bear Stearns has invested billions in tw...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Bear-Stearns-Collapse-Means-Trouble-for-IT/?kc=rss Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:50:46 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Microsoft-Aids-Financial-Services-Developers/?kc=rss - NEW YORK - Microsoft has released a new Financial Services Office Business Applications Component Library. At the sixth annual Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference, here, Microsoft released its new OBA (Office Business Applications) component library to help financial services organiza...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Microsoft-Aids-Financial-Services-Developers/?kc=rss Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:03:55 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/What-Will-a-Recession-Mean-for-IT-Outsourcing/?kc=rss - If the news stories are any indication, the U.S. economy has a rough road ahead of it in 2008. Due to the rippling effects of the credit crisis, mounting trade deficit, soaring oil prices and sobering employment numbers, the United States is expected to be tightening belts in the coming months...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/What-Will-a-Recession-Mean-for-IT-Outsourcing/?kc=rss Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:07:30 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Are-Open-Source-and-Capitalism-Worlds-Apart/?kc=rss - NEW YORK - Is the concept of open-source finance a contradiction in terms? That was the question posed to a panel at the OReilly Money:Tech conference here Feb. 6. The question spawned a discussion as to whether open-source technologies were fundamentally at odds with the zero-sum world of capital...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Are-Open-Source-and-Capitalism-Worlds-Apart/?kc=rss Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:33:09 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Major-Trading-Debacle-Begs-IT-Question/?kc=rss - The U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis and the global economic problems that followed may or may not be responsible for creating conditions that led to the recent scandal at Société Générale, France's third largest bank. Regardless, the mortgage crisis and the trading scandal at Société Générale do ha...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Major-Trading-Debacle-Begs-IT-Question/?kc=rss Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:26:07 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/IBM-and-Fair-Isaac-Ink-Financial-Services-Alliance/?kc=rss - Fair Isaac and IBM have formed a partnership that will help financial services firms better manage risk and improve customer service. The quot;strategic alliance quot; will include joint marketing, sales and development of SOA (service oriented architecture) based technologies for the financial se...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/IBM-and-Fair-Isaac-Ink-Financial-Services-Alliance/?kc=rss Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:21:16 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Tech-Stocks-Stumble-Panic-or-Predictable/?kc=rss - Was it panic or predictable? Or is the continuing unpredictability of the U.S. economy creating panic in the market, especially in the technology sector? Those were the questions roiling the market Jan. 22 after tech bellwether stocks stumbled coming out of the gate but began stabilizing later in th...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Tech-Stocks-Stumble-Panic-or-Predictable/?kc=rss Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:37:11 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Rate-Cut-Doesnt-Halt-Tech-Stock-Slide/?kc=rss - Despite an emergency interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve Board, technology, telecom and chip maker stocks stumbled badly coming out of the gate Jan. 22. In mid-morning trading, Google was down more than $20 per share in a 3.3 percent slide to $579.44 a share. Microsoft fell almost 3 percent t...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Rate-Cut-Doesnt-Halt-Tech-Stock-Slide/?kc=rss Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:31:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Subprime-Meltdown-Has-Yet-to-Soften-Tech/?kc=rss - The technology sector ended 2007 relatively unscathed by credit woes, while the impact of the subprime mortgage meltdown edged into other areas of the U.S. economy, which saw the sharp increase in the cost of home mortgages soften auto sales, manufacturing contracted and the services sector weakene...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Subprime-Meltdown-Has-Yet-to-Soften-Tech/?kc=rss Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:53:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/New-XBRL-Taxonomy-a-Boon-to-Investors/?kc=rss - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is releasing a new taxonomy for Extensible Business Reporting Language on Dec. 4 in the hopes of improving financial reporting and analysis. An XBRL taxonomy, which is akin to an XML schema, describes a standard way to report business information. The S...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/New-XBRL-Taxonomy-a-Boon-to-Investors/?kc=rss Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:55:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Fear-and-Greed-in-Silicon-Valley/?kc=rss - BOSTON The mortgage crisis continues to wend its way through the national psyche. The occasional rays of sunshine, such as the Abu Dhabi Investment Groups $7.5 billion investment in Citigroup, and comments from a Federal Reserve official to the effect that the federal government may soon cut intere...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Fear-and-Greed-in-Silicon-Valley/?kc=rss Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:12:35 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/What-Could-the-Credit-Crisis-Mean-for-IT/?kc=rss - The collapse of the subprime mortgage space and the uncertainty surrounding who will be exposed have the financial markets in a state of jitters. Could the impact go beyond home mortgages to business lending and technology? Vendors with slim profit margins are likely to want to be acquir...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/What-Could-the-Credit-Crisis-Mean-for-IT/?kc=rss Mon, 14 May 2007 21:17:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/SAP-Snags-2-Companies-Partners-with-SunGard/?kc=rss - At its annual international Sapphire user event, this year held in Vienna, SAP is stressing several themes centered on the notion of helping companies to keep up with global changes mandates, regulations, consolidations and to differentiate themselves by implementing SOA-based technology for a mor...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/SAP-Snags-2-Companies-Partners-with-SunGard/?kc=rss Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:08:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Intuit-to-Buy-Digital-Insight-for-135-Billion/?kc=rss - Intuit announced plans Nov. 30 to acquire Digital Insight, a leading provider of online banking services, for roughly $1.35 billion in cash. The merger will unfold in the first quarter of 2007, Intuit officials said. The combination of two industry leaders will put Intuit in an excellent position...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Finance/Intuit-to-Buy-Digital-Insight-for-135-Billion/?kc=rss