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I thought I should balance the books after picking on Citi, SocGen and HSBC yesterday by performing a quick look at the IT industry using Yahoo’s message boards, another favourite.    I love the message boards of Yahoo for seeing what investors really think about firms through trader’s messages and employee’s gripes.  The only thing…

Many of us start the new year looking for a new job, so I thought I’d dive into the wonderful website The Vault and see who’s hot and who’s not. Now I don’t know if you’ve ever explored The Vault, but it’s a good place to get the low-down on prospective employers.  The reason it…

Many of us start the new year looking for a new job, so I thought I’d dive into the wonderful website The Vault and see who’s hot and who’s not. Now I don’t know if you’ve ever explored The Vault, but it’s a good place to get the low-down on prospective employers.  The reason it…

Gary Silverman, the FT’s US news editor, wrote a column about his surprise to find he and his wife each had a $119.99 charge from TLG Hotline on their JP Morgan Chase credit cards. "We pay our cards automatically, and I don’t always examine the bill, but this time I did and noticed something strange….

Probably it’s just a coincidence that ING has two longish stories in the 4 January FT – one an innovative management framework from Bain that helps the bank keep its international operations in synch and another on how the bank is quietly extending its global reach, – an interview with Dick Harryvan, the board member…

Way back in mid-December Chris Skinner did a review of retail banking. Here’s an idea he may have overlooked — think about how customers actually use your bank, and for American banks, offer some support for people who work internationally. My personal example, if you will be so kind as to overlook special pleading…    …

Way back in mid-December Chris Skinner did a review of retail banking. Here’s an idea he may have overlooked — think about how customers actually use your bank, and for American banks, offer some support for people who work internationally. My personal example, if you will be so kind as to overlook special pleading…    …

Way back in mid-December Chris Skinner did a review of retail banking. Here’s an idea he may have overlooked — think about how customers actually use your bank, and for American banks, offer some support for people who work internationally. My personal example, if you will be so kind as to overlook special pleading…    …

Plus it’s free, and Web-based. Mint allows users to automatically track and analyze their financial transactions, set budgets, and even send balance updates in text messages to cell phones. From the Forbes interview with its 26-year old founder, Aaron Patzer: “The average user, when they log in, can find $1,000 worth of savings within five…

            Despite Chris Skinner’s prediction, in an intelligently provocative recent piece, that 2007 was the year that Microsoft committed suicide, even he didn’t say the process would be quick – he predicted the company’s first lost to appear in 2012.             Meanwhile Microsoft continues to play a big role…