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NAB buys Aussie

PERTH-based business software provider CCK Financial Solutions has announced it has won a deal with the National Australia Bank to provide next generation software for the bank’s Group Treasury operations.

 
ACCC stymies eBay PayPal plan

THE Australian consumer watchdog will revoke an eBay plan that would have forced all of its local customers to make payments through its in-house PayPal service.

 
CommBank’s $580m SAP deal
THE Commonwealth Bank will spend $580 million over four years with German software giant SAP to upgrade its core banking systems.
 
Whitman steps down from eBay

MEG Whitman, one of the original commercial warriors of the online world and a genuine industry legend, is to step down as president and chief executive of auction house eBay at the end of March.

 
Internet remains tax free – for now
GOODS and services sold via the Internet will almost certainly retain their tax free status after lawmakers in the US voted to approve a seven-year extension of a moratorium on online tax.
 
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e-Finance News
NAB buys Aussie

PERTH-based business software provider CCK Financial Solutions has announced it has won a deal with the National Australia Bank to provide next generation software for the bank’s Group Treasury operations.

 
ACCC stymies eBay PayPal plan

THE Australian consumer watchdog will revoke an eBay plan that would have forced all of its local customers to make payments through its in-house PayPal service.

 
CommBank’s $580m SAP deal
THE Commonwealth Bank will spend $580 million over four years with German software giant SAP to upgrade its core banking systems.
 
Whitman steps down from eBay

MEG Whitman, one of the original commercial warriors of the online world and a genuine industry legend, is to step down as president and chief executive of auction house eBay at the end of March.

 
Internet remains tax free – for now
GOODS and services sold via the Internet will almost certainly retain their tax free status after lawmakers in the US voted to approve a seven-year extension of a moratorium on online tax.
 
Alibaba conjures global B2B expansion
ONLINE B2B marketplace Alibaba.com expects to rapidly expand the number of business suppliers joining the service from outside of China over the next three years.
 
CommBank overhauls online services
THE Commonwealth Bank has completed stage one of a multi-million dollar overhaul of its NetBank service, with a new look and feel for the site going live over the weekend.
 
Microsoft acquires Jellyfish shopping site
MICROSOFT has quietly acquired a comparative shopping search engine company Jellyfish.com, a start-up that seeks to give its customers a cut of retailers’ online advertising each time they make a purchase.
 
Magento open source commerce platform debuts
LOS ANGELES-based web development house Varien has unveiled a downloadable preview version of its much-anticipated open source eCommerce platform Magento.
 
Google finance chief calls it quits
GOOGLE’s top bean counter, chief financial officer George Reyes, has unexpectedly announced plans to retire by the end of the year.
 
Myth busted! Male online dominance a nonsense
THE myth that the internet is a male dominated arena where women fear to tread has been debunked, with new US research showing more women than men on the internet, and that women do more while they are online.
 
Anti-competitive: EU attacks iTunes
APPLE and the world’s five major record labels have been formally accused by European regulators of anti-competitive behaviour stemming from distribution practices of the iTunes music download service.
 
Visa eyes mobile payments market
VISA US chief executive John Philip Coghlan has announced a series of strategic partnerships with wireless technology companies, saying the mobile payments market was about to come of age.
 
Feds boost online laundering team
THE federal government has cranked up surveillance on online money movements, with the shadowy Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) signing a memorandum of understanding for closer ties with the consumer watchdog.
 
Attache hits $20m winner
ATTACHE Software, one of the biggest names in the Australian small business accounting market in the 1980s and 90s will make a triumphant return to the spotlight at CeBIT Australia through its just-launched Attache 7 flagship package.
 
SAP flies into Pilot Software acquisition
GERMAN software giant SAP has acquired fast-growing Pilot Software, a maker of analytical tools and strategy management systems designed to help senior management extract better information from finance and customer data.
 
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