Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
Why should you care about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? If you are the CEO or another executive within a large public company, the answer is obvious: because you have to. If you don’t, your business — and you — will face serious repercussions, including possible jail time. Not good.
The average American credit cardholder carries 3.5 credit cards, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s 2010 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice. Today, consumers use credit cards to pay for more than just large-ticket items. Everything from household items and utilities to insurance premiums and student loans are tallying up charges on the average monthly statement.
IBM is promising to deliver a solution that will enable companies to include information from social media platforms in their regulatory compliance reports. Compliance capability is "fundamental to reducing a barrier that many companies have encountered as they look more closely at using social media for business process integration," said Alistair Rennie, IBM’s general manager of collaboration solutions.
The IT industry purely loves digital information and with good reason. Creating, storing and archiving documents consisting of 1′s and 0′s provides the foundation for thousands of business computing solutions and billions of dollars in annual sales. While the gospel of the "all-digital enterprise" inspires many proselytizers and true believers, companies in the real world tend to utilize both digital and physical documents and records.
India’s IT outsourcing industry received a shock Wednesday with the news that Satyam Computer Services Chairman Ramalinga Raju had falsified corporate earnings and assets. Raju inflated the cash on the company’s balance sheet by nearly $1 billion, overstated September 2008 quarterly revenues by 76 percent and profits by 97 percent.