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How Tim Cook is changing Apple
— Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going. — FORTUNE — In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a “bus tour” led by a research analyst for Citibank.
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Samsung CTO Responsible For The Galaxy Tab Line Steps Down
— Omar Khan, the Samsung CTO who was responsible for the rise of the GalTab and other Android-powered smartphones, is moving to Citibank to handle that company's global digital banking initiatives.
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Hackers Take Down Australian Web Host, Leave 4,800 Sites Unrecoverable
— There has been a frenzy of hacking activity over the last few weeks from organizations like LulzSec and others that affected a number of major brands ranging from Sony to Citibank. Over the weekend …
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Commerce Department: Recent Wave Of Cyberattacks Sounds An Urgent Wake-up Call
— Cameron Kerry, Commerce Department's general counsel — The Commerce Department is understandably freaked out about cybersecurity. After name-checking recent breaches at Citibank, RSA/Lockheed Martin …
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Whoops: NFC Partner Spoils Google's Surprise Tomorrow. ViVOtech One Partner. Citibank Too?
— Google is holding an event tomorrow in New York City. While everyone seems to be aware that it's a partner event to announce the NFC strategy for their Android phones, Google has refused to confirm it.
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Zagat Survey Aims to Regain Its Online Balance
— BACK in the early '80s, when the Zagat Survey was still just a single sheet of legal-size paper that Nina and Tim Zagat gave to friends and colleagues, they learned that their list of the best restaurants in New York had been reproduced — en masse — inside Citibank.
| Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times: |
Credit Cards Soon to Get a Makeover
— The simple credit card is about to get a makeover. — Next month, Citibank will begin testing a card that has two buttons and tiny lights that allow users to choose at the register whether they want to pay with rewards points or credit, at most any merchant they please.
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In Wake Of Fabulis Debacle, Citibank Makes Changes To Internet Business Policy
— Last week, Citibank found itself in the eye of an Internet storm after it was revealed that the bank had blocked the business account of Web startup fabulis over (non-existing) ‘objectionable content’ on the company's blog.
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.