April 2009
Calpine, GE Receive California Public Utilities Commission Approval of Power Purchase Agreement for Planned Bay Area State-of-the-Art Power Plant
Calpine Corporation (NYSE:CPN) and GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services announced today that the California Public Utilities Commission has approved an amended Power Purchase Agreement for a state-of-the-art combined-cycle natural gas power ...
American International Group plans sale of U.S. auto business, 21st Century Insurance, to Zurich Financial Services
US taxpayer-bailed out insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG) is in advanced talks to sell its US personal lines insurance business, 21st Century Insurance, to Zurich Financial Services for about $2bn. Selling the unit, which includes ...
Tech Mahindra, partly owned by BT Group Plc Wins Bid for Satyam Computer!
Scam-tainted Indian software company Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Monday named a 17.56 billion rupees ($352.6 million) offer by a Tech Mahindra Ltd. unit as the highest bid for a 31% stake in the company. L&T and Wilbur Ross, the other two contend...
ING Plans to Sell $10.6 Billion of non-core assets: ING Investor Day
ING Group, the biggest Dutch financial services firm, plans to sell up to €8 billion (£7.2 billion) selling of non-core assets after tapping a government rescue fund last year. ING expected to sell between 10 and 15 businesses “over time and a...
Georgia-Based Attorney Robert P. Copeland charged in $28 million fraud: Ponzi Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged, Georgia-based Marietta real estate attorney Thursday for operating a Ponzi scheme that sold promissory notes to raise funds that were purportedly invested in real estate transactions, including private mo...
March 2009
Institute of International Finance (IIF) says Financial Services Firms Move to Implement Compensation Reforms!
Financial services firms are moving forward with far-reaching changes in their approaches to employee compensation, said the Institute of International Finance (IIF). Firms are proceeding with reforms that are both in line with the principles published...
February 2009
Top web-based Video Conferencing Software and application sharing Tools for small biz!
Years ago the first video call took place, when AT&T introduced the Picturephone at the 1964 World’s Fair in America. Viewed as a fascinating curiosity at the time, it never actually became popular and was too expensive to be practical for most c...
Madoff wife Ruth Withdrew $15M Before His Arrest!
Ruth Madoff, the wife of disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff withdrew more than $15 million from a firm co-owned by her husband — including $10 million on the day before his arrest on charges he ran a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Ruth Madoff, 67, wit...
What is Santander's Madoff payout?
The people responsible for Santander’s Madoff strategy are not even at Santander anymore. They left a few months before the scandal broke. Santander announced last week it would compensate all individual clients who invested in the Optimal Strategic ...
January 2009
Credibility of Indian corporate governance: Wipro and Megasoft Joins Satyam in World Bank Blacklist
It looks like the world bank’s tirade against Indian companies is just pickup up steam. More companies were included the the blacklist, that would be barred from engaging with World Bank and a number of years. The bank had already announced the debar...
November 2008
Zurich appoints Mario Vitale CEO of its Global Corporate business division
Zurich, a leading property and casualty insurance provider in North America and globally, today announced Mario Vitale has been promoted to CEO of its Global Corporate business division. He replaces Geoff Riddell who will assume additional responsibili...
October 2008
A full review on new Hector Sants Remuneration policies, UK Financial Services Authority
The following is Hector Sants’s statement from the Financial Services Authority on executive pay after the UK government attached conditions to its 37 billion pounds ($64 billion) bailout of British banks. Dear CEO Remuneration policies Introduc...
September 2008
August 2008
Integrate web for reference on desktop offline Microsoft,Adobe products
Another cool application which is similar to firefox addon for browsing and has the ability to integrate lot of features which works with all Microsoft Office program including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Notepad, WordPad), Adobe PDFs, Facebook, ...
How to convert m3u to mp3 audio files and download them
Here is a easy way to download and convert audio songs from m3u to mp3.If you don’t know what m3u is then it is file extension for a playlist of MP3 audio files and it is not a Audio.M3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists whic...
Request and receive blocked webpages to your email
Here is a another quick look at this excellent service which helps you request a webpage of any site to be sent directly to your e-mail box. No matter where you are if you can’t access the webpage of the website because the system office administrato...
July 2008
Login on web with a single password (Open ID)
We had written about generating random password tools in our last post,these random passwords are very secure and strong but remembering these random passwords if you have registered to many sites is almost impossible.But majority people use the same p...
Web based online blog post easy editor - WriteToMyBlog
Wordpress blog post publishing have a lot of feature for easy publishing but when it comes to adding videos, inserting new layer or table then you look for a different blog editor which has all advanced option.You can go with window’s live writer but...
SEO Services - Make money as a online researcher
It is said that a experienced blogger is also a Self SEO who has learnt the basic SEO guide and also implemented them for his own blog reaping good search engine results and rankings.Their are thousands of Search engine Optimization company which provi...
Get your Digital Photo printed and delivered for free
ZoomIn is an online service that enables consumers to store, share, personalize and print their digital photos – easily and affordably.Apart from this they are giving away free 25 photo prints to anyone who sign ups for free.
ZoomIn will deliver t...
