Companies

Chinese Companies' Dodgy Accounts Deter Investors

9 Feb 2012

Chinese companies have featured strongly in the list of accounting scandals in recent months, and many investors have discovered to their cost that Chinese accounting practices can be somewhat fast and ...

Companies mixed on letting employees use their own gadgets for work

9 Feb 2012

While loath to alienate employees by being too restrictive, many executives fear their companies' confidential or critical business data could be accessed from poorly secured gadgets by hackers, who are attacking firms with increasing ferocity.

Cable companies lobbying FCC to force customers into using set-top boxes

8 Feb 2012

According to a recent article at Public Knowledge, cables companies are pushing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reconsider a rule regarding the encryption of the basic cable tier. During the early nineties, a rule was adopted by the FCC to make sure cable companies kept a portion of the broadcast stations completely unencrypted. Commonly known as “basic cable� by the public, these ...