According to a recent study by Mercer Oliver Wyman, a consulting group, and Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, cross-border mergers can work if the buyer brings more sophisticated information-technology and risk management to the target.

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These are big changes that chief risk, information and technology officers will discuss at a risk management seminar next week in New York.

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We looked forward to a 2013 U.S.-ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology Symposium on Disaster Risk Reduction and real time information sharing.

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According to the State of Information Security Survey 2003, a complex integration of technology, education, risk analysis, as well as corporate and government regulation are needed.

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As a result, I believe the large capex on health care information technology (here to date largely software) creates a very real risk of balance sheet squeeze which could seriously affect the viability of many hospitals.

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Over the past decade investors, firms and consumers put far too much faith in the power of information technology, globalisation, financial liberalisation and monetary policy to reduce volatility and risk.

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Terahertz light - which lies between infrared light like that used by remote controls and the microwaves in the appliance of the same name - has become popular in scanning technology at airports and museums' back rooms because it can extract information without risk of damage.

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This is an interesting article and the information in it is important to know for those responsible for responsible for managing risk for high technology companies.

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