Under the accord, DBS will also take a 7.25% stake in Nikko Asset and the combined firm’s managed assets will total more than $150 billion, the companies said in a joint statement filed to the Singapore stock exchange today.
Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co.’s Nikko Asset Management Co. unit agreed to buy DBS Asset Management from DBS Group Holdings for $137 million to tap business from the expanding ranks of wealthy Asians.
Under the accord, DBS Asset will also take a 7.25% stake in Nikko Asset and the combined firm’s managed assets will total more than US$150 billion ($195.5 billion), the companies said in a joint statement filed to the Singapore stock exchange today.
Samsung Nov. 8 will unveil the Samsung Continuum i400 in New York City, with expectations to sell it Nov. 11 for $199.99. The device sports dual-screen Super AMOLED displays. – Rumors of Samsung launching a Nexus Two smartphone based on Google’s Android
2.3 operating system Nov. 8 are laid to rest with the report that the company
will be rolling out a different phone that day: the Samsung Continuum i400.
Samsung is holding a press event for Nov. 8 in New York
City, and…
On July 23rd, Admiral Thad Allen said that the seep 3 kilometers from the leaking BP well was from the Rigel gas field:David Dishneau: Admiral, this is David Dishneau from The Associated Press. I have a question regarding that seep that we’ve been tr…
OCBC (O39.SG) +2.9% at 2-week high $8.48, best performer among Singapore banks. Stock still outperforming peers even after last month’s correction, down 5.3% in May vs DBS (D05.SG) off 8.5%, UOB (U11.SG) off 10.9% over same period, according to Dow Jones.
Collective intelligence is the group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration of many individuals. If you truly believe that employees are your single greatest asset, you would reward and compensate them accordingly for their ideas and their ability to contribute to your organization’s success. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Vivek Bhaskaran explains how to effectively harness the power of the collective intelligence of your employees. – Wikipedia describes collective intelligence as the quot;shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals. quot; The notion of collective intelligence is not new. After all, every time we sit in a conference call or a meeting, that is exactly what …
Intel is looking to give the ultrathin laptop market a boost with the release of low-power processors that officials say will give OEMs new tools to work with when designing their thin and light notebooks. The new ultra low-voltage processors, which span Intel’s Core, Pentium and Celeron product lines, are built on the chip maker’s new 32-nanometer manufacturing process, and other a smaller size, greater performance and better energy consumption than current processors used in ultrathin laptops. They also offer such features as Hyper Threading, Turbo Boost and integrated graphics. Intel officials say about 40 laptops using the new chips are in the works, and a few from the likes of Acer, Asus, Gateway and MSI are ready to hit the market in June. – …
Lenovo is rolling out several new laptop and tablet models – the ThinkPad X201 series – that use the latest Intel Core i7 and i5 processors and Microsofts Windows 7. In addition, Lenovo is revamping its massive, dual-screen mobile workstation – the ThinkPad W700 series. These new PCs come at a time when Lenovo is using its ThinkPad line to target smaller businesses.
– Lenovo
is rolling out several new ThinkPad notebooks, including the ultraportable ThinkPad
X201 and X201s laptops and the ThinkPad X201 convertible tablet, along with
revamping its high-end mobile workstation.
Lenovo
is officially announcing its new and revamped ThinkPad PCs on Feb. 23, and
us…
Blogs Brighthand and Engadget have found evidence that the Federal Communications Commission has blessed what could be a version of the Nexus One that runs on AT T’s 3G network. The unknown device supports 3G on WCDMA Bands I, II and V, meaning that it’ll work on AT T’s network and most of Europe. The Nexus One could use the additional carrier support. Those who bought the device with T-Mobile service are suffering from spotty 3G service or even prolonged outages and complaints have been overwhelming Google’s Nexus One support forum since the phone launched.
–
Gadget
blogs unearthed evidence that the
Federal Communications Commission has blessed what could be a version
of Google’s Nexus One smartphone that runs on AT amp;T’s 3G network.
This could be great news for consumers
considering buying
Google’s Nexus One smartphone but don’t wan…
The new Lenovo ThinkCentre M90 and M90p, arriving in February, will feature Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, an enhanced Windows 7 experience, remote management features and up to 42 percent post-consumer recycled content.
– Lenovo introduced two new high-performance desktops PCs for
enterprises on Jan. 14, the ThinkCentre M90 and M90p. Both are the first ThinkCentre
desktops to run the 2010 Intel Core vPro family of processors, which
reportedly enable the machines to run multiple intensive applications at once.
Bo…
In a recent speech in London, IBM Chairman, President and CEO Sam Palmisano laid out IBM’s vision of the next decade as the decade of the smarter systems. Among the many areas IBM is focusing on to enable a smarter planet is smart water management.
– In a recent speech in London, IBM
Chairman, President and CEO Sam Palmisano
laid out IBM’s vision of the next decade as the decade of the smarter
systems. Among the many areas IBM is focusing on to enable a smarter planet is
smart water management.
In his Jan.
12 speech at the Chatham House in…
Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky chronicled his unboxing of the Google Nexus One and confirmed much of what has already been reported. He shows how a Milky Way-like wallpaper swirls on the screen by itself and reacts to finger swipes. From there, he shows off a new weather and news widget; jumps from any one of five screens (also new) to the next by pressing and holding down a button on the touch screen; and scrolls through the new icon menu. Ultimately, he compares it to the Motorola Droid, meaning the Nexus One is no iPhone killer.
– News Analysis: Not only is the world privy to the Google Nexus One smartphone’s specifications, go-to-market strategy and pricing details, but Engadget has snagged a Nexus One and
published a detailed review of the device.
Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky chronicled his unboxing of the device and confi…
The fashion for hiring temps has reached the executive suite
TEMPORARY work is all too familiar to the masses. Farmers have always relied on seasonal workers to plough the fields and pick the crops. Companies have been hiring temps to answer the phones and do the filing for as long as anyone can remember. Now a new group of people are experiencing the joys of the flexible economy: the managerial elite.
The practice of appointing interim bosses actually originated in Europe some years ago as a way of coping with the continent’s rigid employment laws. But European companies were always as discreet about the practice as possible. Now the habit has reached the United States, and Americans are doing what they do naturally: shouting about it from the rooftops. No with-it company can be taken seriously without a “flexible boardroom” and a “just-in-time talent pipeline”. …
PT Berlian Laju Tanker Tbk (BLT), the third largest chemical tanker operator in the world, is moving into the Indonesian offshore support vessel market in a joint venture (JV) with Miclyn Express Offshore (MEO).
With a 50% stake in the proposed JV company named PT BLT Miclyn Offshore (PT BMO), BLT will make a foray into the Indonesian offshore support vessel market that has an estimated market size of US$200–250 million ($279–348 million) in revenues.
Microsoft is releasing six security bulletins next week as part of Patch Tuesday. Three of the bulletins address Windows security issues Microsoft has rated critical.
– Microsoft will release six bulletins next week for Patch Tuesday, including three critical bulletins focused on Windows security.
All
totaled, 15 security vulnerabilities will be fixed in this release.
Besides the critical Windows bulletins are three others rated
quot;important. quot; Among t…
Intel executives have disclosed new information about next-generation Intel Xeon processors – codenamed “Jasper Forest” – for embedded, communications and storage applications, due in early 2010. The processors feature integrated PCI Express in a dual-processing Xeon processor, which greatly facilitates dense storage and communications solutions such as IPTV, VoIP, NAS, SAN and wireless radio network controllers. Jasper Forest maintains the outstanding performance of Intel architecture (Nehalem), while lowering system power consumption by 27 watts when compared to the Intel Xeon 5500 series processors that were unveiled earlier this year. For more information, please see the IDF 2009 press kit.
Yahoo is expected to brief media and analysts on consumer product news at 2 p.m. EDT today. The briefing follows the same construct as Yahoo’s July 21 launch of its new home page. The home page is expected to be more tightly integrated with search, something that Yahoo promised would show up in bucket tests in August. Yahoo CEO Carl Bartz told Forbes.com Yahoo had grand designs for its search experience despite the company’s 10-year search and search ad deal with Microsoft.
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Yahoo is set to demonstrate upgrades to its quot;most
popular consumer products, quot; for media and analysts August 24, according to
a company spokesperson.
The spokesperson said the 2 p.m. EDT briefing will be quot;a great opportunity for you to
hear about how Yahoo continues t…
There are several reasons why most mainstream news organizations have been slow to embrace link journalism.
First, news orgs typically act as though other news orgs don’t exist (blame long-standing notions of “owning” the news, and more recent unjustified fears of sending readers away). Second, news orgs had few mechanisms for breaking out of that walled-garden [...]
