Abbey has launched an account for monthly savings with a headline rate of 7%, fixed for 12 months, but this rate only applies if you take out a regular investment, pension or personal protection plan with the bank, and only if you make no withdrawals for 12 months.
Facebook security engineer Brad Hill announced today at the USENIX Enigma conference that his company is launching an account recovery feature for other websites called Delegated Recovery.
The site was set up by the 2012 Obama/Biden campaign, which also runs his Facebook page and Twitter account (The White House also recently launched an account on Foursquare).
The IOC says it already has some 2,000 athletes signed up to aggregate Twitter feeds, and that it already has more than 30,000 followers on Instagram in the 60 days since it launched an account.
In 2005 it launched an accounting software directly targeting Intuit's customers.
In the interim, earnings had faltered, the Securities and Exchange Commission launched an accounting probe and the company made several changes in top management.
The French brand which was first launched over a century ago, used the event to launch an Instagram account, which within one day of creating has racked up an impressive 1.8 million followers.
Virgin Money is aiming to launch a current account next year.
