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It’s numbers crunching season again for me, and my outlook has been confirmed as if a combined team of Big Four auditors ripped through my databases looking for errors, omissions and even fraudulent opinions.The financial institutions landscape:The number of banks, thrifts and credit unions continues...
Amazon is stealing eBay's top sellers. Many of the sellers that remain seem less than enchanted with eBay. This new strike planned for May, may mean more of the same, or that eBay's ears must start getting bigger still.
The RIM versus Apple battle is the current smartphone battlefield (unless Nokia can enter the fray), with Microsoft and Palm bowing out due to an inability to innovate and deliver products that capitalize on the shifting pro-sumer or business / consumer market. Now that Apple is making a move...
1) Amerprise has been aggressive ever since its Personal Advisor and Banking separation from Amercan Express
2) MasterCard appears to be the predominate card network
Microsoft is in the middle of a tremendous browser battle. Their share has been eroding, and the web masses are getting restless. Internet Explorer 8 is an attempt to fight back Firefox and Safari, but it also appears to be a change in approach for Microsoft.
Even after more than a decade of e-book cheerleading, people still prefer tree books to E-books by a wide margin. Amazon's Kindle is new and exciting but it's not making that much of an impact--yet.
Google Gears delivers interactive applications that run offline to a place where these applications will certainly excel, on a mobile device. However, the users most likely to use it, iPhone users, aren’t on the list and neither are Nokia users. Are they just seeding for the Android launch?...
The US housing and mortgage crisis has mushroomed into a new level of adversity. When will this bleeding subside and ultimately come to an end? Is the market near a bottom yet? Are there any upside opportunities? Will the bank, thrift and mortgage industry's pain turn into someone's gain?
MasterCard Europe filed an appeal of the European Commission's (EC) ruling that its non-negotiable interchange fees for cross-border transactions violated EC Treaty regulations. The EC's investigation found that interchange fees MasterCard charges on cross-border Maestro and MasterCard transactions...
"Chase What Matters" is Chase's new tagline in its national ads. Chase's customers' are saying "surcharge free ATM access" is what matters to them, which is why Chase is expanding its ATM branding deal with Cardtronics to install Chase branded ATMs at Hess Express Gas Stations in NY and NJ. Surcharge...