Software as a Service as a Security Battleground
Salesforce.com reached a milestone last fall: 1 million people using the online software company to host their customer relationship management systems and other key business…
Server Virtualization: Powerful Tool, Extra Exposure
Dividing a server into multiple virtual machines has brought down firms’ purchasing costs and allowed for more efficient use of existing hardware. However, virtualization also…
CA co to sell Beijing Games web ads
SHANGHAI — A California company has been chosen to manage China Central Television’s online ads during video broadcasts of the Beijing Olympics on CCTV.com. ViDeOnline…
Co-pro ‘Milk & Fashion’ gets China distrib’n
SHANGHAI — American-Chinese co-production “Milk and Fashion” will be distributed in China by Shanghai-based Red Art beginning in June, the film’s producer said Thursday. An…
Shanda’s massive high score
Gamer’s full-year revenue leaps 49% Chinese online game giant Shanda Interactive Entertainment reported record revenue Tuesday of $97.8 million for the final quarter of 2007.…
Shanda reports record revenue
SHANGHAI — Chinese online game giant Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. reported record revenue of $97.8 million for the last quarter of 2007, company executives told…
Record users for China game operator
China’s online game operator The9 Ltd, play it today. announced record-breaking user numbers for the last quarter of 2007 as well as strong revenue growth…
China’s The9 sees record user numbers
SHANGHAI — China’s online game operator The9 Ltd. announced record-breaking user numbers for the last quarter of 2007 along with strong revenue growth in a…
Pre-trade Compliance: Better, Cheaper, Faster
Firms answer regulatory, investor demands with added controls and third-party systems At the heart of Societe Generale’s recent EUR4.82 billion ($7.01 billion) in losses from…
The Web 2.0 Threat
Leading-edge collaborative tools and interactive sites pose monitoring burden As the Web 2.0 movement makes interactive applications and social networks such as Facebook ubiquitous on…
U.S. audiences get to drink Chinese-made ‘Milk’
SHANGHAI — “Milk and Fashion” producer Jay Rothstein is aiming to bring his high-profile, Chinese-produced film to U.S. audiences and also to sign a distribution…
Another Leap Forward
This article first appeared in Waters. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index broke 6,000 points on Oct. 17, just as the World Federation of Exchanges held…
Salesforce.com: The CRM ‘Hot Ticket’
A few years ago, it would have been hard to imagine Wall Street firms turning over key customer data to an Internet start-up. But in…
Nasdaq and NYSE Get Go-Ahead to Open Offices in China
Nasdaq Stock Market has been granted approval to open an office in Beijing, just weeks after the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) gave the New…
Waters Exclusive: Asia Report
Despite connectivity issues, regulatory hurdles and liquidity barriers, traders are eager to try out algorithms. Electronic trading and the use of algorithms in Asian markets…
Hedge Funds: Ready, Set …
Emerging markets pose regulatory obstacles and provide fewer trading options but offer the biggest opportunities. When Lou Gerken first started investing in Asia in the…
Is China Too Hot to Handle?
The Chinese government takes steps to put a lid on an overheated stock market. New Chinese investors are rushing into the stock market like buyers…
Competition Looms
Exchanges and regulators must brace for increased volumes as ATSes and crossing networks pour in resources, but governments are likely to remain protective. Alternative trading…
Don't bet it all on China
Article first appeared in FDM. What’s next for China? Best case, worse case and status quo scenarios are almost equally plausible. Here are eight questions…
Hidden Dragon
For five years, starting in 2001, the Chinese stock market headed down. Investors pulled out their money; brokerages went bankrupt. Then the Chinese government instituted…
Asia’s Alternatives
In many respects, Asia has been following the U.S. and European lead on matters of market structure and regulation as Asian laws and technologies steadily…
Build-Operate-Transfer Plan Brings Outsourced Jobs In
Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. Patrick Snowball, executive director of Aviva UK, flew down to Mumbai, India in February to accept an award…
Feeding the news appetite with RSS
Every day, Alex Dai, one of my full time employees, spends about an hour an a half looking for stories for the next day’s news…
War journalism
Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. I’ll…
How to become a foreign correspondent
I’ve answered it a lot as well (one of these answers is posted here: http://maria.trombly.com/FAQ.htm#correspondent). But my perspective on this has changed over time as…
Greetings from Shanghai, China
Dan Kubiske, chair of the SPJ’s International Journalism Committee, suggested that I blog about my experiences running a bureau out here in Shanghai, so this…
Banking on IT in China
SHANGHAI — In the first 10 months of 2006, Chinese regulators uncovered 776 banking crimes, including 205 cases involving more than 1 million yuan ($125,000…
SunGard Buys Chinese Trading Systems Supplier Fudan Kingstar
In a sign that the maturing of the Chinese financial markets is creating new opportunities for Western technology suppliers, SunGard Data Systems of Wayne, Pa.…
NYSE, 3 Others Buying Stakes in India Exchange; SGX in the Wings
The parent of the New York Stock Exchange and three other investors said last week that they will each buy 5 percent, $115 million equity…
Agricultural Bank of China Remains a Risky Play
Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) is likely to have a greater probability of making future non-performing loans (NPLs) than China’s other big banks, experts say.…