Articles Tagged: clients

Michael Stumm on FX trading leverage

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act as signed into law on July 21st of this year, requires forex dealers to comply with several new regulations. Of these, the most contentious limits leverages for trades involving the major currencies to 50:1. Contentious for some forex dealers perhaps, but OANDA has never offered leverage … read more here


Fan Appz targets fan connections

Online followings for teams, athletes and leagues continue to grow by the minute. And we’re increasingly seeing sports properties taking their massive Facebook and Twitter followings and putting them to business use. Fan Appz is one company making it easier for sports brands to ramp up engagement — and, in turn, business pursuits — in … read more here


Travelers’ questions about trips to Europe after volcano

USA Today Flights are back to normal after ash from an erupting Iceland volcano shut down European airspace and stranded 5 million passengers across the globe earlier this month, but Eyjafjallajökull continues to cast a pall of uncertainty over trans-Atlantic travel this summer. Among the unanswered questions: If the still-sputtering volcano spews another ash cloud … read more here


Vanity Vs. Sanity: Putting Apps In Context

MediaPost The app economy is booming to the tune of 7 billion downloads in 2009, according to Chetan Sharma Consulting — and aiming for perhaps 50 billion by 2012. But we also still need to put the app in context of the larger marketing and media distribution plan. A number of mobile agencies have been … read more here


Tech Weekly Missives

Tech Weekly Missive – April 16, 2010

What Tongues are Wagging About Google reported revenues of $6.77 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, an increase of 23% compared to the first quarter of 2009. The video games business as a whole saw a 6 percent year-over-year increase in March, and turned in the third-best nonholiday period month on record. The … read more here


Snapfinger: When an app is much more than an app

PhoneDog We don’t do a ton of app and business coverage on the site, as our primary focus (and readership) is on phones, other devices/gear and industry news and services with direct appeal to consumers. Sometimes we break the mold when a particular app catches an editor’s eye or a story is too big – … read more here


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