Yesterday, Bernard Madoff – Diet Coke drinker, Neil Diamond fan and $65bn fraudster – was given a life sentence for orchestrating the giant Ponzi scheme…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 30, 2009 11:10AM | 1 Comment »
Screen Digest, one of those media analyst companies that exist solely to make ad salesmen cry, is all set to publish its latest report, and…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | June 29, 2009 11:03AM | 1 Comment »
A new travel website, Simonseeks.com, launched last week – offering its writers a share in advertising revenue. Created by Simon Nixon, the…
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Posted by Ruth Stokes in Creative Economy | June 25, 2009 12:53PM | 2 Comments »
Perez Hilton vs will.i.am getting too latently homophobic? Jordan’s Twitter beefs wholly unconvincing? Then step up to the bitchfight of the year, with Mervyn King…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 24, 2009 12:36PM | No Comments »
In a heartening bit of stimulus, the US has given Ford, Nissan and Tesla billions in cheap loans to fund the development and manufacture of…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 24, 2009 11:07AM | 1 Comment »
Royal Bank of Scotland, part-owned by the government and wholly-loathed by the British public after former chief exec Fred Goodwin became Mr Recession, are embroiled…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 22, 2009 11:22AM | No Comments »
As we wait for news on financial regulation today from both the US and UK Treasuries, various survivors of the crisis are throwing their two…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | June 17, 2009 1:15PM | 1 Comment »
Ok, we take it all back. Yesterday it looked like the Digital Britain paper would just lamely hope that the private sector would…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | June 17, 2009 11:21AM | 1 Comment »
A mixed bag in the world of renewable energy this week. While Europe is getting its shit together on all fronts, the US is starting…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 16, 2009 1:40PM | 7 Comments »