Jeff Bezos Keeps UK Kindle-Lovers In the Wilderness

Another Amazon quarterly earnings call today, and another big puff of smoke in the face of UK readers waiting for the wazzo Kindle…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Sci-tech | January 30, 2009 7:41PM | 4 Comments »

$50m In Madoff Losses Absorbed By National Bank Of Kuwait, Young Jeezy Calls For Madoff’s “Punk Ass”

Hope is soaring amongst the formerly rich investors who were stung by Madoff, after the National Bank of Kuwait fully reimbursed 20 or…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 30, 2009 2:50PM | 1 Comment »

Wikipedia And Britannica Go After Each Other’s Business Models

The Britannica Encyclopaedia, the well respected 250 year old scholarly resource, and Wikipedia, its sloppy but more comprehensive online equivalent, are trying to move in…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | January 30, 2009 1:07PM | 3 Comments »

Davos Forum Focuses On Protectionism, Macbeth, Tupperware

Davos, the snowy Swiss vale that plays host to the World Economic Forum every year, has this time been less a self-congratulatory haven for hearty…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 30, 2009 11:56AM | 1 Comment »

Citigroup Told They Can’t Have A New Jet, Stop Being So Silly

Citigroup may be too big to fail, but they’re not so big that they can splash $50m on a private jet and get away with…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 28, 2009 10:43AM | 2 Comments »

Jesus, Not Another One: Nicholas Cosmo Is The Newest Ponzi In Town

The financial crisis has exposed yet more Ponzi-style wonkiness in the form of Nicholas Cosmo, who was arrested yesterday after an…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 27, 2009 1:09PM | 3 Comments »

John Thain Apologises For Lavish Expenditure, But Not For Appalling Lapses Of Taste

John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch who looks like Clark Kent with a missing chromosome, said sorry yesterday for redecorating his office with…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 27, 2009 10:49AM | 2 Comments »

Google Expected to Launch Invasive “Gdrive”

The Kingdom of Google is working to expand its empire from the realms of the Internet by waging a siege upon our desktop regions, with…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | January 26, 2009 6:00PM | 2 Comments »

Every Little Bit Of Car Industry Continues To Get Bailed Out

“Bailout” has gone from pootling around the periphery of our general lexicon to being invoked every single day in a familiar sing-song chime. BAIL_OUT!

And…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 26, 2009 2:22PM | 2 Comments »

Facebook Fast Becoming “Credible” News Service?

Russian billionaries aren’t the only new masters of the news industry. Facebook’s powerful network is also moving into position to become a heavyweight info portal.…

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Posted by Mike Smith in Creative Economy | January 26, 2009 9:57AM | 2 Comments »

The Butcher’s Shop is Back! Wednesday, January 28

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Events | January 24, 2009 11:31AM | 1 Comment »

DMGT Has Last Laugh, as Murdoch’s Londonpaper Crows at the Lebedev-Evening Standard Takeover

Welcome to the world of London newspapers Mr. Lebedev!

Yesterday Paul Dacre confirmed to his staff that ex-KGB man turned plutocrat Alexander…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 23, 2009 2:27PM | 4 Comments »