Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 81 - 90 of 129 results for "computing"

OneVentures launches second fund for HNWs and instos

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... portfolio of emerging Australian companies with global ambitions across healthcare, education, mobile, media, cloud computing and data, security and privacy, machine learning, sensors and robotics, and food security. The first OneVentures Innovation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... founder Bill Gates was stepping down as chairman to become a technology adviser and Satya Nadella, head of its cloud-computing division, would succeed Steve Ballmer as chief executive. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Industry Group ...

PROFILE: AMP Horizons director Amelia Constantinidis

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... Constantinidis didn't let the absence of a Higher School Certificate hold her back from gaining extra qualifications. A computing diploma at her local TAFE paved the way towards her first job at the State Super Board - or the Superannuation Administration ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... getting a jolt from Microsoft's announcement that chief executive Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months. The computing giant's shares soared 7.3 per cent to $34.75 on Friday as Ballmer, who succeeded Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 2000 ...

R&D focus giving Asian companies greater pricing power

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... cheaper than the closest Japanese rival. The research and development factor has also boosted Asian companies most in the computing and mobile device market. The likes of Samsung, Lenovo and Huawei have leveraged their brands effectively over the last ...

Qantas Super takes flight with iqBoard

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... boards and committees," IQ Group's CEO Graham Sammells told Financial Standard. iqBoard is hosted by IQ Groups own cloud computing environment, iqCloud, and the whole system has been carefully secured and encrypted. "There are a series of passwords that ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... per cent), fruit (1.7 per cent) and cakes and biscuits (1.7 per cent). Also down were the prices of audio, visual and computing equipment (-4.3 per cent) and pharmaceutical products (-3.5 per cent). There was also a fall in health costs recorded in the ...

Cloud computing to boost real-time super

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
From real-time banking to real-time super, cloud computing adds a new dimension to how fund members can access their superannuation data in the future. This year's annual Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference in Sydney played ...

Paper bank statements ignored by UK consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... this year found that Australians' use of mobile banking technology has become one of the premier applications of mobile computing. But the banks aren't having it their own way as PayPal is becoming just as dominant, they noted. Despite the push to online ...

Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall, global application leader - Risk & Financial Services at Towers Watson said Cloud offers "unique benefits ...