Hackers Take the US Banking Industry by Storm
	Three hackers, Yuriy Rakushchynets, Ivan Biltse and Angelina Kitaeva, managed to get access to Citibank ATM machines placed in 7-Eleven stores and steal $2 million. Citibank is not the only one to blame since the entire system is owned and operated alongside two other companies (Cardtronics Inc. and Fiserv Inc.). All the attacks took place from September 2007 until March the current year. The hackers are just now being brought to justice, ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

SecureWorks Warns European Banks of Spam Related Scams
	According to information security company SecureWorks, there is a spam campaign targeted at financial institutions such as banks. The spam message threatens the bank that unless it transfers €10,000 to a certain account, the spammer will sell private information regarding 48,000 bank customers on the black market; he also threatens to inform the media about the situation. Similar spam messages have been detected in Spain, Germany and the ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 06:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Testosterone and Money
	For you, testosterone may be a notion connected to high sex drive and muscles. But the male sex hormone influences male's behavior beyond physics and sex life. Including the economic behavior. A high testosterone blood level may translate into above-average profits for that day, as found by a new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The investigation was made on 17 male London fi ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nintendo Financial Rating Cut
	KBC Securities Japan has recently downgraded the financial rating of games giant Nintendo, saying that it expects the sales of hardware like the Nintendo Wii and ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Super Google Growth
	Being the busy little bees that we are and with the minuscule attention span we’ve grown to have (or rather regressed to having), we’re always running for the latest information, be it interesting or not, important or not. Our hunger for Google numbers has always been fed by the quarterly fiscal reports and the reported growth was enough for an ‘Aah!’ and then we’d move on with our lives. Be that as it may, when some seriously ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Spam Gets Blasted. SEC Takes No Prisoners!
	One type of spam has been blasted down as the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been suspending trading in the securities of companies that haven’t provided adequate and accurate information about themselves to the investing public. In case you haven’t already figured that out, I’m talking about stock market e-mail spam, commonly known as pump-and-dump spam. However, spam is still out there, annoying the crap out of e ... [read more >>]
	05 October 2007, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Increases Its Revenue Outlook
	In the same day that AMD decided to finally officially launch its native quad core processors, Intel posted a new and improved revenue forecast for the third quarter of the year as the central processing units manufacturing company cited a growing demand for the Intel branded processors. Intel increased its revenue forecast from a range of $9 billion to $9.6 billion to a higher range of $9.4 billion to $9.8 billion. This new range comes ... [read more >>]
	11 September 2007, 09:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda's Memory Chip Spin-off Is So Far a Financial Failure
	Qimonda is a new company, intended to be the world's fourth largest manufacturer, created by the German semiconductor maker Infineon to spin-off its memory chip business. In its fiscal third quarter, the Munich manufacturer had to suffer from Qimonda's poor performance. In this quarter, the net loss grew to no less than 197 million euro. A year earlier, the net loss for the same quarter was only 23 million euro. The ... [read more >>]
	28 July 2007, 08:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google - $3.87 Billion in Revenues
	Google today published its financial results for the second quarter of this year, reporting $3.87 billion in revenues, an increase of 58 percent compared to the same period of last year. In comparison with the first quarter of the year, Google recorded a 6 percent increase. Some experts say that the Mountain View company's revenues are not so impressive because Google expected a considerable boost of money to be recorded this year. Ho ... [read more >>]
	20 July 2007, 05:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News Test in Progress
	Today, I discovered a new Google test on the News product, the search giant trying to implement financial information for some queries entered by the users. As you can see in the picture attached to the article, after I searched Google News for “Google”, the product returned me several results displaying the stock name just after the weblinks. At this time, there is no official statement concerning the tests but the Mountain View ... [read more >>]
	27 April 2007, 08:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia