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Archive for March, 2009

DMGT Slashes 1000 Jobs As Local News Continues To Choke

DMGT Slashes 1000 Jobs As Local News Continues To Choke

In a desperate attempt to stay afloat the Daily Mail and General Trust is slashing a whopping 1,000 jobs across its regional

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | March 24, 2009 1:47PM | No Comments »


Tim Geithner's Toxic Asset Plan Explained, Praised, Booed

Tim Geithner’s Toxic Asset Plan Explained, Praised, Booed

Tim Geithner’s plan for getting banks’ credit flowing again was released yesterday (despite more leaks than the latest hipster album), and investors gave it a…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 24, 2009 1:03PM | No Comments »


Jade Goody - The Media Says Tearful Goodbye

Jade Goody – The Media Says Tearful Goodbye

Jade Goody has died, and with her goes one of the strangest times in media history – a death rattle that sounded for weeks, from…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | March 23, 2009 3:41PM | 4 Comments »


Vodafone and O2 Buddy Up To Cut Costs - Is A Merger In The Works?

Vodafone and O2 Buddy Up To Cut Costs – Is A Merger In The Works?

Vodafone and Telefónica (O2’s owner), two of the biggest mobile service providers, have come together in a marriage of convenience, pooling their accumulated mobile networks…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 23, 2009 1:52PM | 2 Comments »


JP Morgan "Do A Citigroup" And Foolishly Order Two Gulfstreams

JP Morgan “Do A Citigroup” And Foolishly Order Two Gulfstreams

JP Morgan have joined Citigroup in the ill-timed-private-jet-purchase club, as they go ahead with plans to buy two Gulfstream jets, worth $120m, plus

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 23, 2009 12:03PM | 2 Comments »


Counting Crows Crow About ‘Limitless Possibility’ Of Internet

The concept of band meets agent and signs record deal is changing as the evolution of technology is allowing for new options, making the musical…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | March 20, 2009 6:05PM | 3 Comments »


TroopTube Has Disappointing Lack Of Chocolate Rain

TroopTube Has Disappointing Lack Of Chocolate Rain

The US military has blundered in its quest to get down with media networking by blocking its own terrible answer to YouTube, TroopTube,…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | March 20, 2009 3:16PM | 4 Comments »


Google Street View Launches In UK, Creates Privacy Storm In A Teacup

Google Street View Launches In UK, Creates Privacy Storm In A Teacup

Google can’t stop creating these Will-Smith-in-Enemy-of-the-State-type paranoia situations. Fresh from social awkwardness nexus Google Latitude, yesterday they launched their UK version of Google’s Street View,…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 20, 2009 2:39PM | 4 Comments »


Madoff's Accountant Arrested - Who's Going To Be Next?

Madoff’s Accountant Arrested – Who’s Going To Be Next?

Bernard Madoff has been in jail for a week now, and let’s hope he and Arthur Nadel are chess partners or something and he’s having…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 19, 2009 2:24PM | 3 Comments »


Rio Tinto-Chinalco Deal Plagued With Investor Fears, Australian Bureaucracy, Crazed Politicians

Rio Tinto-Chinalco Deal Plagued With Investor Fears, Australian Bureaucracy, Crazed Politicians

The Chinalco-Rio Tinto deal that stands to be one of China’s most high profile foreign investments to date is starting to get bogged down in…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 18, 2009 1:14PM | 1 Comment »


Guy Hands Steps Sideways Rather Than Down At Terra Firma

AIG Gets Flak Over Bonuses, But Derivatives Bailouts Are Where The Big Money Is

AIG Gets Flak Over Bonuses, But Derivatives Bailouts Are Where The Big Money Is

AIG has once again been paying out sums of money so enormous that you need to annex part of your brain just to comprehend them.…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 17, 2009 2:58PM | 2 Comments »