This story accompanies a profile of the French exploit-selling firm Vupen in the April 9th issue of Forbes magazine. A clever hacker today has to make tough choices. Find a previously unknown method for dismantling the defenses of a device like an iPhone or iPad, for instance, and you can report it to present it ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:56

Auriga USA analyst??Sandeep Shyamsukha this morning cut his rating on the chip maker Xilinx to Hold from Buy, trimming his target price to $39, from $42. The stock closed Thursday at $36.23. The analyst writes that the reduced rating reflects ?a continued soft recovery? in carrier capital spending. ?We also see increased threat to the ...

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Working at a super market, insurance company, bank, title company, in retail, Burger King (and the list goes on) was never in my plans. They weren't what I dreamt about doing when I grew up. When I rang up the burgers, reality set in and the dreams went to the wayside. Money became more important than my dream. It had to. And then I woke up.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:54

Conditions at Research In Motion are not good. The company is losing massive amounts of market share to Apple and Android, and it faces revived competition from Microsoft. The PlayBook tablet is not gaining a lot of traction. And while the bulls hope for a revival from the launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:50

When it comes to exchange-traded products, you either get it or you don?t. And, according to , more institutional investors are getting it every day. Analyzing??U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 13F filings, ?s ETF research team summizes that 51.6% of all exchange-traded products in the United States??were??held by institutional investors, inlcuding brokers, registered investment advisers, ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:30

The financial-services sector, and asset managers in particular, has come roaring back this year amid signs of economic growth and an apparent resolution of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe. The positive outlook from investors has also renewed confidence in asset management firms, which are benefiting from higher trading volume and money inflows to their ...

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This week Fodors.com announced the winners of its first "Best of Europe 2012" survey. The results? Drumroll, please.

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A little bit of fibbing on social networks has become commonplace.who doesn't want to look their best? But not so much on LinkedIn, where honesty really is the best policy. Or else.

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One FINRA Arbitrator issues a breathtakingly eloquent promissory note Decision in favor of Merrill Lynch. Would a skilled lawyer have made a difference? Did the arbitrator know of FINRA's historic million dollar fine against Claimant for its promissory note collection practices? A must read.

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Katniss Everdeen, the hero of the Hunger Games, provides a valuable lesson for a startup trying to survive the corporate Hunger Games.

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