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Archive for April, 2009

Citigroup Shareholders Re-Elect Complete Tools As Directors

Citigroup Shareholders Re-Elect Dinosaurs As Directors

The FT reported yesterday that Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit was one goverment dollar away from the chop – their source said: “It is…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 22, 2009 11:56AM | No Comments »


Waterboarding: The New Gonzo Journalism

Waterboarding: The New Gonzo Journalism

Gonzo journalism, where you go out and do something for real rather than just reporting on it, is always a seductive route for any journalist…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 21, 2009 1:27PM | 2 Comments »


Allen Stanford Goes On Charm Offensive, Lays Into SEC

Allen Stanford Goes On Charm Offensive, Lays Into SEC

Allen Stanford, orange cricket fan, WAG molester and alleged perpetrator of a massive fraud, spent yesterday having a massive PR binge…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 21, 2009 12:01PM | 1 Comment »


Roger Wallis, Pirate Bay Trial Witness, Chats To BAD IDEA

Roger Wallis, Pirate Bay Trial Witness, Chats To BAD IDEA

Last Friday, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartolm and Carl Lundström (aka the Pirate Bay Four) were all found guilty of ‘assisting in making…

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Posted by Kieron Bryan in Creative Economy | April 21, 2009 9:40AM | No Comments »


Publishers Slowly But Surely Starting To Use Web 2.0

Publishers Slowly But Surely Starting To Use Web 2.0

It may have been a little slow on the uptake, but the book industry is finally embracing Web 2.0. Mills and Boon lauched their

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Posted by Ruth Stokes in Creative Economy | April 20, 2009 12:52PM | No Comments »


Darling And CBI Look Beyond Recession, Others Still Staring Into Abyss

Darling And CBI Look Beyond Recession, Others Still Staring Into Abyss

It’s Budget week, and apart from getting to do that holding-the-red-suitcase-up thing, Alastair Darling has to generate the confidence that he’s turning the economy round.…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 20, 2009 11:41AM | No Comments »


FSA Made To Look Bad By A Whistleblower, Again

FSA Made To Look Bad By A Whistleblower, Again

The FSA has been having a tough time of it recently, and unsurprisingly so – after all, they’re the regulatory body that presided over years…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 17, 2009 1:30PM | 1 Comment »


Government To Subsidise Electric Car Purchases, Forget About Grid, Renewables, Battery Production...

Government To Subsidise Electric Car Purchases, Forget About Grid, Renewables, Battery Production…

The government has announced plans to give buyers of electric cars up to £5,000 towards their purchase, incentivising people to buy the pricey…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | April 17, 2009 12:13PM | 4 Comments »


JP Morgan And Goldman Sachs Have Fantastic First Quarter Results, But How Long Will They Last?

JP Morgan And Goldman Sachs Have Fantastic First Quarter Results, But How Long Will They Last?

JP Morgan have released their first quarter results, and like Goldman Sachs’ earlier in the week, it looks at first glance like they’re immune to…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 16, 2009 2:11PM | No Comments »


Protesters Turn To Web 2.0 To Effect Summer Of Rage

Protesters Turn To Web 2.0 To Effect Summer Of Rage

We saw recently how students are getting all riled up like never before by tuition fees and non-specific warring, but activism is also…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | April 16, 2009 12:04PM | 1 Comment »


Sport Magazine Goes Under, Wired And Teen Vogue Losing Revenue

Sport Magazine Goes Under, Wired And Teen Vogue Losing Revenue

It looks like the forecasts about advertising revenue that were out recently were chillingly prescient – Sport magazine, the prosaically-titled free weekly,

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 16, 2009 11:15AM | No Comments »


UBS Job Cuts Materialise As Expected, Yacht-Mongering Tax Evader Gets Nabbed

UBS Job Cuts Materialise As Expected, Yacht-Mongering Tax Evader Gets Nabbed

UBS further cements its position as the world’s most godawfully screwed bank today, with announcements today of another 7,500 job cuts, bringing their…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 15, 2009 1:13PM | No Comments »