Banks fight fraud with new social networking weapons

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Description: An older type of social network, and it’s being used to help detect fraud. It is the connections between people in the physical world. Source: Globe&Mail.com Date: March 8, 2011 Banks, telecoms providers and insurance companies, among other businesses, are using analytic software to correlate all of their various data sources to produce visualizations of relationships… Read more »

Software-as-a-service fills market niche

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Description: Not all businesses flock to cloud computing, though. What its proponents tout as its main benefit – applications and data on the internet – its critics impugn as a potential weakness Source: CBC News Date: Oct 26, 2010 Cloud computing explained | silicon.com Cash-strapped startups and small companies like cloud computing for various reasons…. Read more »