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Twitter has just launched new tools that adjust the colour, size and style of photos users upload via its mobile app for iPhone and Android.
The photo filters, developed in partnership with software maker Aviary, mimic the popular features that have...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Technology
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HSBC banks around the world are expected to be part of a new “know your customer” programme following HSBC Holdings’ agreement to pay a record $1.92 billion fine to settle a multiyear probe by US prosecutors who accused Europe’s biggest bank of faili...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Local Business
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Dr Ian Walker, curator of the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo, shows off the new Bermuda Reef Life App at iClick.The app, now available on iTunes for iPhone or iPad was created by the Bermuda Zoological Society in conjunction with the Atlantic Conser...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Technology
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The Facebook polls closed Monday afternoon and even though the social network had its largest turnout ever, too few members cast ballots to have a say in the policy changes the company has proposed.
Nearly nine out of every ten who voted were against...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Technology
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(Bloomberg) — Police in Australia are urging motorists to use anything but Apple Maps to get around the Outback after the app left several people stranded in the hot dessert — a mistake police there called a “potentially life-threatening issue”.
The...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Technology
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Earlier this week, we ran a story reporting Bermuda CableVision customers in Southampton and Warwick now have access to the company’s new Video-on-Demand (VOD) service.
Turns out, the service is actually available to customers Islandwide as of this w...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Technology
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Bermuda’s insurance companies are likely to continue trimming their operations here to the underwriting essentials in an economic climate that forces managers to focus on cost cutting.
That is the view of experienced reinsurance executive John Berger...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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MUNICH (Bloomberg) - Property and casualty reinsurance rates won’t increase in January when the industry renews the majority of its annual contracts with clients, the head of Allianz SE (ALV)’s reinsurance arm said.
“Rates will probably be flat to a ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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Shares of Ascendant Group fell four percent ($0.48) on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday to close at $11.51.
BF&M shares were also down, losing 1.5 percent ($0.24) closing the day at $15.26. And shares of KeyTech were up 0.2 percent ($0.01) ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Validus Holdings says it will become a bigger and stronger company in Bermuda as a result of its acquisition of Flagstone Re, which is now officially complete.
According to a source, Bermuda-based Validus’s acquisition of Flagstone Re resulted in the...
DATE: Dec 11, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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