Driving innovation at Fidelity Investments

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16 terrible computer pranks that could get you fired 7 free iPad business apps to get you started Network World Daily News PM March 27, 2014 Share this email Driving innovation at Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with assets under administration of $4.7 trillion, and it didn't get there by using yesterday's technology. In fact, the company has a standalone group, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology – more commonly referred to as Fidelity Labs -- whose job it is to take the long view, to examine technologies years before they become mainstream and help the firm get a leg up. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 16 terrible computer pranks that could get you fired 2. 7 free iPad business apps to get you started 3. Network World launches National Conference on SDN, OpenFlow, Network Virtualization and Applications in a Software Defined Environment 4. 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