Layoffs in the Newspaper Industry What’s ahead in the job market? As the U.S. economy slows down, journalists find their work – and sometimes their jobs — being sacrificed in the name of greater profits. Why are things so bad now — and what toll has bottom-line thinking already taken? Gary Green was laid off […]
As recently as a decade ago, the Russian banking sector was an antique monstrosity, a huge system of paper-based transactions inherited from the former Soviet Union. Businessmen in the fledgling capitalist economy were forced to carry suitcases of cash – typically American dollars – in order to make business deals. There wasn’t even a system
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As online news sites were recording history this election, they were also making it. Record numbers of people went online for news, marking the first true test of the medium. This past election set records around the country – and not just in the variety of ways the word “chad” could be used in a
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It joins a crowded marketplace.
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When you go out on a limb in asking for new job benefits, it helps if you know just how far is too far
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When a broadcast tower fire threw several Moscow TV stations off the air last week, many would-be TV viewers turned to the Internet. In some cases, traffic to news sites doubled from usual levels. The sites reported few performance problems as a result, though one, Gazeta.ru, had to add a second server to handle the
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In an attempt to reduce online credit-card fraud, Visa U.S.A. in San Francisco announced 10 “commandments” for online merchants to guard its cardholders’ information. And, next week, Visa will follow up by releasing the details of a broad online security program.
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A hacker doesn’t have to break into a bank’s computer to steal account numbers and access codes. It may be enough to set up a “spoof” Web site that closely mimics a real bank’s, according to a warning issued last week by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Some customers have provided
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Structured financing is a way of borrowing money against an asset or a projected asset without consideration of the creditworthiness of the borrower.
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Will turn over firm’s back-office operations to Bank of New York
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Larger financial institutions have an edge over small and nimble Internet upstarts in electronic customer relationship management (CRM), according to a new report released by Meridien Research in Newton, Mass. Larger institutions often have more experience with data analysis technologies and have already built data warehouses to track the huge amounts of customer data they’ve
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Lloyds TSB Group PLC has said it will spend $24 million on a customer relationship management (CRM) system designed to integrate customer information from all aspects of its operations. The retail bank – one of the four largest banks in the U.K., but no relation to insurer Lloyd’s of London – said it will use
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The future is multimedia, and journalists are quickly learning to tailor their work for different mediums Late last year, Chicago Tribune reporter William Gaines got together with the newspaper’s jazz critic, Howard Reich, to do a piece about jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton. They wrote the article, and it ran in the paper. If it
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The Internet is changing the playing field for both ad agencies and their clients White the Pioneer Valley still lags behind other areas of the country in terms of Internet marketing, it is expected to do a good deal of catching up in 2000. This will bring both opportunities and challenges for the region’s advertising
DETROIT, Nov. 2 — Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot continued to hammer away at campaign finances Saturday, accusing both major party candidates of selling the government to special interests. Perot told supporters at a rally in Michigan that if elected, he would put up a sign saying: ‘This White House is not for sale.’
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