Assanka has been busy this spring helping The Times to show you where you can eat out for a tenner. Learn more about our interactive map that’s encouraging user participation in the promotion.
Data Disaster
The recent disaster at HM Revenue and Customs underlines the fact that data protection is still not being taken seriously by Government. It’s not a failure of technology, it’s a failure of policy.
Capital gain
For some years it has been common for experienced investors to ‘gear’ or ‘leverage’ their investments by borrowing money from a lender, normally a bank, using the existing investment as security. The borrowed funds can then be invested in turn to make an additional return on the original investment. Foundations Capital conceived of [...]
Alphaville wins best business blog
Assanka is delighted to announce that FT Alphaville has won Best Business Blog at the prestigious 2007 EPpy awards in Miami, Florida. FT Alphaville is developed, maintained and hosted by Assanka for the Financial Times, and features up to the second, cutting edge business journalism from a dedicated editorial team based in London and [...]
Round the houses
Indexing 10,000 properties an hour, and serving over a million queries a month, OnOneMap is property search for people who like to get stuff done. Forget ten results per page, try three hundred – all precisely plotted on one map. Started as an in-house project by an Assanka developer, OnOneMap provides a great showcase for [...]
Instant market insight
Reporting on financial markets has changed little over recent decades. The rumour mill may have moved from the dining rooms of the City’s finest eateries to the mobile and blackberry, but ultimately the efforts of the markets reporter still result in a daily digest of what’s moving in the marketplace. Despite the improvements [...]
The Business of Risk
This week, the Japanese stock market suffered a serious blow when a trader accidentally sold 610,000 shares in J-Com, a recruitment company, for 1 yen (half a penny) each. The scale of this error becomes apparent when you realise that the broker concerned had intended to sell only one share, for 610,000 yen (£2,893).
Oops [...]
Ghost Writing
The human brain is fantastic at filtering information. So good, in fact, that almost all of what you see is de-prioritised and instantly forgotten to make room for stuff that’s deemed worthy of further scrutiny. This happens online as well – is your message getting through?
You may remember the film Mercury Rising, in [...]
Press 1 for World Peace
Does anyone remember a time when mobile phones were used for talking to people, and very little else? Now, the humble handset is the centre of our digital world, and firms are racing to exploit the enormous potential of the numerous revenue-generating opportunities available. Whether it’s texting for Live 8 tickets, voting in [...]
Dragons Alive 2005
A team of Assanka staff and friends raced for the second year in the Twickenham Dragon Boat racing competition, part of the annual Twickenham Festival that takes place every June. We didn’t do quite as well as last year, but we like to think it’s the taking part that counts.
Last year we teamed up [...]