Finance

Fairfax Purchases $250m More Of BlackBerry’s Debt

Largest shareholder asks for seconds of BlackBerry crumble

10 years ago

BlackBerry Posts Huge £2.7bn Loss After Asset Write-Down

BlackBerry troubles continue but the company hopes restructure and new partnership with Foxconn can give it a break

10 years ago

Bitcoin Value Slumps Following Chinese Bank Ban And French Concerns

Chinese government says banks can't use Bitcoin, while the French central bank says its too risky to use electronic currencies

10 years ago

JPMorgan Warns 465,000 Of Data Breach

Banking giant JPMorgan says a lot of its UCard customers could have had their details taken

10 years ago

Baddies Bash Bountiful Bitcoins

As the value of a Bitcoin increases, so does the scale of attacks on the currency, says Sean Michel Kerner

10 years ago

RBS Promises Compensation After Yet Another IT Failure

RBS, Natwest and Ulster Bank customers are fuming after being unable to make payments last night

10 years ago

Alderney Wants To Become A Financial Hub For Bitcoin

Island wants to mint physical bitcoins, which it sees as a pathway to financial independence

10 years ago

HP Profits After Data Centre Gains, But PC Competition Hurts

Hewlett-Packard posts mostly positive results thanks to sales growth in data centre systems and commercial PCs

10 years ago

Amazon Coins Pre-Payment For Kindle Fire Apps Arrives In Britain

The Amazon Coins scheme can only be used for Kindle Fire owners to buy apps, games and in-app purchases

10 years ago

Google Wallet Adds Card For Payments And Cash Withdrawals

Google Wallet Card aims to make payment system more accessible - but only in the US

10 years ago

Dropbox Values Itself At £5bn As It Seeks Fresh Funding – Report

Dropbox wants £156m to help fund its push into enterprise cloud storage

11 years ago

US Government Hearing Boosts Bitcoin Value To Nearly £500

The virtual currency soars in value as US Senators hear that Bicoin is a legitimate form of money

11 years ago

Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Disappears, Along With £3 Million Worth Of BTC

Customers have been unable to contact the administration of Global Bond Limited for over two weeks

11 years ago

Box Chooses Bankers For 2014 IPO – Report

Box IPO reportedly moves closer as cloud firm selects bankers ahead of flotation next year

11 years ago

Twitter IPO Values Company At More Than £11 Billion

70 million shares priced at £16 will be available at Twitter IPO on the New York Stock Exchange

11 years ago

Research Suggests A Conspiracy Of Miners Could Destroy Bitcoin

A team from the Cornell University proposes changes to the Bitcoin protocol to make it safer

11 years ago

Samsung Posts Another Record Profit In Q3, Offloads LCD Venture

Samsung posts another record profit amid concerns about slowing smartphone sales

11 years ago

Amazon Loses £25m In Q3 Despite 24% Increase In Sales

Amazon expects sales to continue to rise during lucrative Christmas shopping season

11 years ago

Modest Twitter IPO Values Firm At £6.8bn

Shares will cost between £10-12 as Twitter aims to avoid repeat of Facebook floatation

11 years ago

Barclays Offers Free Document Hosting Service To Online Banking Customers

‘Cloud It’ allows users to upload and manage an unlimited amount of documents in the cloud

11 years ago

BlackBerry Can Thrive If It Goes Private

Let's not write BlackBerry off, says Wayne Rash,. Its network and its QNX embedded software can see it through

11 years ago

BlackBerry Could Put Itself Up For Sale

BlackBerry forms special committee to investigate 'strategic alternatives' for the company going forward

11 years ago

All Bitcoin Wallets On Android “Vulnerable To Theft”

Google's not-so-random number generator allows thieves to hijack wallets if certain conditions are met

11 years ago

BlackBerry Considers Going Private – Report

BlackBerry board is considering radical change in strategy, according to a report

11 years ago

Samsung Records Record Profits During Q2

Samsung makes £4.49bn in Q2, but warns of slowing smartphone growth

11 years ago

EE 4G Now Has 687,000 Subscribers As Adoption Accelerates

EE says it is on track to meet its target of one million 4G customers by the end of 2013

11 years ago

Vodafone Revenues Fall As European Woes Continue

Vodafone revenues fall again, but emerging markets are providing some comfort

11 years ago

Google Profits Increase To $2.8bn Despite 6% Fall In Ad Prices

Falling ad prices and Motorola loss fail to prevent profit at Google in Q2

11 years ago

Research: TechWeek Readers Give Thumbs Up To Startups

Are IT people wary of trendy startups? No, our Tech Club survey found that you love them!

11 years ago

BlackBerry Posts £55m Quarterly Loss

BlackBerry 10 launch can't prevent Canadian manufacturer from posting loss

11 years ago