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Archive for February, 2009

The Butcher’s Shop, Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin

Prepare your prose for the taste of cold editorial steel: The Butcher’s Shop, BAD IDEA’s unique writing workshop, returns on Thursday February 26…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Events, Podcasts & Video | February 19, 2009 1:47PM | 2 Comments »


Allen Stanford Fallout: Mexican Drugs, Bad Reportage and Geoffrey Boycott

Allen Stanford Fallout: Mexican Drugs, Bad Reportage and Geoffrey Boycott

Allen Stanford, the fraudulent cricket-loving Texan billionaire (I know, it sounds like the product of bad acid), has gone AWOL, while Antigua is…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 19, 2009 12:30PM | 1 Comment »


Peter Mandelson Has Christian Bale Moment

Peter Mandelson Has Christian Bale Moment Over Starbucks’ “Downward Spiral” UK Jibe

Frothy words overflowed from the lid of Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz’s mouth on Tuesday, saying the place that concerns him the most in

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Hot Money | February 19, 2009 10:38AM | 2 Comments »


Microsoft Plays Catch Up With Apple's App Store, Retail Chain

Microsoft Plays Catch-up with Apple’s App Store, Retail Chain

Fed up of being cast as the geeky older brother of Mac, Microsoft is taking a few initiatives to step up their cool cred, announcing…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 18, 2009 12:46PM | 2 Comments »


Allen Stanford Charged With Fraud, Test Cricket Fans Celebrate With Weak Cordial

Allen Stanford Charged with Fraud, Test Cricket Fans Celebrate with Weak Cordial

Allen Stanford, Texan billionaire, offshore banker, and perhaps the only American to have heard of (let alone enjoy) cricket, has been charged with

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 18, 2009 12:07PM | 3 Comments »


Trump Entertainment Resorts Goes Bankrupt, But Donald Still Loves His Resorts

Trump Entertainment Resorts Goes Bankrupt, but Donald Still Loves His Resorts

Donald Trump’s casino group Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for bankruptcy this morning, after it wasn’t able to meet a loan payment that, as…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 17, 2009 6:05PM | 5 Comments »


Shonichi Nakagawa Resigns, Asks For Nurofen And Can Of Coke

Japanese Finance Minister Shonichi Nakagawa Resigns, Asks for Nurofen and Can of Coke

So you’re Shoichi Nakagawa, finance minister of Japan, and you’ve been told that your country has had its worst economic fall in 35 years, with GDP…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 17, 2009 11:34AM | 2 Comments »


Mobile Phone Providers Scrap Politely Over Bits Of Spectrum To Enable Lord Carter's "Digital Britain"

Mobile Phone Providers Scrap Politely Over Bits of Spectrum to Enable Lord Carter’s “Digital Britain”

Lord Carter’s “Digital Britain” paper, with its promise of 2Mb broadband for all by 2012, looks pretty lame when South Korea are going

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | February 16, 2009 1:45PM | 1 Comment »


Porsche Faces Angry Hedge Funds, General Malaise

Porsche Faces Angry Hedge Funds, General Malaise

Porsche are due to face the renewed wrath of the hedge funds they wronged with their VW trade last year, as it emerges that VW…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 16, 2009 11:32AM | 2 Comments »


Google Ends Radio-Ad Venture, Layoffs to Follow

Google’s torrid affair with radio advertising ended in tears and broken promises yesterday when they broke off their rocky three-year engagement. This loss follows last…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 13, 2009 4:58PM | 1 Comment »


Northern Bank Heist Now Firmly In Guy Ritchie Territory

Northern Bank Heist Now Firmly in Guy Ritchie Territory

Ted Cunningham, an Irish money-lender accused of laundering funds from the Northern Bank heist, has himself named former Bank of Scotland chair Phil

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 13, 2009 1:20PM | No Comments »


FSA Announces Fee Increase And 280 New Jobs To Usher In Shiny Post-Crosby Future

FSA Announces Fee Increase and 280 New Jobs to Usher in Post-Crosby Future

The Financial Services Authority, the regulatory body for the financial services industry, is to get bigger and more blinging amid a climate of greater scrutiny…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 13, 2009 11:16AM | No Comments »