BAD IDEA TEAM
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Ben Beaumont-Thomas
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Daniel Stacey
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For a departing chairman, like Victor Blank who left Lloyds at the weekend, there can be no more depressing sign than your former company’s share…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 19, 2009 11:52AM | 1 Comment »
When we were at the FIPP magazine conference a fortnight ago, there was the suggestion that publishers would have to get used to…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | May 18, 2009 2:23PM | 1 Comment »
VW and Porsche, two of Germany’s most recognisable global brands, just can’t seem to play nice. First there was Porsche’s creeping acquisition of its larger…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 18, 2009 11:35AM | No Comments »
Fairfield Greenwich, the hedge fund that was one of the biggest losers in the Madoff scandal, has seen the “bulk” of its funds taken over by…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 14, 2009 1:37PM | No Comments »
The ongoing dispute about how to implement the Digital Britain plan of having 2Mb broadband countrywide by 2012 has got a…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | May 14, 2009 11:10AM | 2 Comments »
The expenses row, aka the best way to fill papers for a fortnight since Jade Goody started dying, is claiming its first few reluctant scalps:…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | May 13, 2009 1:32PM | 2 Comments »
London Array, the world’s largest wind farm that has been languishing in bureaucratic NIMBY hell for way too long, has finally got the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | May 13, 2009 11:31AM | No Comments »
The stock market has been rallying, the sun’s out, that new Star Trek movie looks pretty good – maybe life’s not so bad after all!…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 12, 2009 1:00PM | No Comments »
Hey everyone, it’s Marc Dreier’s birthday today! Happy birthday Marc Dreier! What did you get? Some Wii games? Jonas Brothers tickets? Bail? Well, one out…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 12, 2009 10:59AM | 5 Comments »
One of the hot topics at the FIPP conference last week was the issue of micropayments – being able to buy journalism iTunes-style in little…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | May 11, 2009 10:43AM | No Comments »
The Home Office have stepped up their game against the dark forces this week, publishing the list of banned persons from the UK with reasons. Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | May 8, 2009 4:25PM | 7 Comments »
Such is the nature of a conference where deeply subjective issues are debated, you’ll end up with both the wheat of a great idea, and…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | May 8, 2009 1:52PM | Comments Off
