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, 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 »
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 »
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, 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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’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 »
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 »
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 »