Journalism Portfolio

Cloud goes business class

Dropbox has teamed up with Microsoft in the latest move by cloud sharing services to expand beyond the cut-throat consumer market and boost their appeal to business users.

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Is it ‘game over’ for texting?

While people are texting each other much less than they used to, business use of SMS – the abbreviation for short message service – is growing as more companies realise texts offer a good way to interact with customers

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Aim investors get m-commerce play

Topping off a bumper year for IPOs, MoPowered Group, a specialist in mobile commerce software, hopes to raise £4m via its imminent flotation on AIM. MoPowered operates in a sector that didn’t even exist five years ago — mobile commerce. It thus poses more of a conundrum to AIM investors…

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Fraud Prevention

Prevention is better than cure and that is certainly the case with fraud, whose financial cost to the UK is estimated at more than GBP85bn.
UK businesses have finally woken up to the huge financial cost of fraud and the importance of prevention. That change of attitude has led to much more proactive approach to preventing corporate fraud,

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Recovering from Fraud

However good the strategy a business has to prevent fraud, it can still occur. The consequences of a fraud are potentially devastating so rapid and decisive action is needed if the business is to recover from the fraud and get back on track.

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