Doubts about European banks' ability to clean up their balance sheets have limited their ability to raise funding on the market and made them highly dependent on the massive liquidity taps the ECB opened after Lehman Brothers' collapse.
The Balkan country has been thrown into a political crisis in recent months, with the government allegedly implicated in a massive wire-tapping scandal and of rigging elections, while the opposition leader has been accused of plotting a coup.
Right now, I can hear the fleshy pads of Joel Golby's massive fingers tapping away at his keyboard.
Project Greenstar was a massive phone tapping project by AT&T involving 33 million calls between 1964 and 1970, although conceived in 1962 at the height of Cold War paranoia it was under the auspices of detecting fraud on the lines.
The Guardian's report about the revelations of massive illegal tapping of government officials by private investigators in the employ of his tabloid newspapers in London has as much to do, I believe, with currying favor with Murdoch as it does with selling newspapers (no less uncovering the truth).
In India, a desperate search for energy to meet rapidly growing demand is sending energy companies high into the Nepalese Himalayas to tap massive and undeveloped hydropower resources.
As we noted in the Snapdeal story, India's e-commerce market is projected to grow 7x to $22 billion in the next five years, as Internet infrastructure continues to improve — enabling more of the country's massive population to tap into online retail.
Many advances in AI can be attributed to machine learning, which works by tapping massive computing power to crunch through enormous amounts of digitized data.
The idea is to make it mass-market, rather than high-end like the iPhone, and to tap the massive potential market for mobile advertising: Google chief executive Eric Schmidt recently described mobile advertising as twice as profitable because it can be so personalised.
The recent drop in the numbers coming from China to the UK has alarmed universities, which have become dependent on their fees, and will prompt greater efforts to set up programmes and partnerships within China to tap the massive demand for higher education.
