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Archive for July, 2009

Allen Stanford Case Gets Weirder With Libya Link

Allen Stanford Case Gets Weirder With Libya Link

The Allen Stanford saga just gets better and better. The orange cricket fan was good comedy value before the scandal hit, with his…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 8, 2009 10:59AM | No Comments »


Phorm Dying Off In The UK, Heads Abroad To Survive

Phorm Dying Off In The UK, Heads Abroad To Survive

It looks like the privacy mob has spoken, because Phorm, the potentially revenue-generating but rather queasily invasive internet advertising technology, has been given

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | July 7, 2009 11:10AM | 2 Comments »


BarCap, Goldman Up To Their Old Securities Tricks

BarCap, Goldman Up To Their Old Securities Tricks

It looked for a while there like the banking world might be forced into the totally boring world of responsibility and safety, thanks to…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 6, 2009 12:33PM | 1 Comment »


Ruth Madoff Off The Hook, Angry Investors Momentarily Distracted By Payouts

Ruth Madoff Off The Hook, Angry Investors Momentarily Distracted By Payouts

Since the Madoff story broke, his wife Ruth presumably hasn’t been able to go anywhere without groups of her friends quickly winding up hushed conversations…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 2, 2009 11:02AM | No Comments »


Pirate Bay To Become Legal And Probably Terrible

Pirate Bay To Become Legal And Probably Terrible

Copyright aggravators and internet underdogs The Pirate Bay announced yesterday that they’ll be selling the site to games and internet café owners Global Gaming Network…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | July 1, 2009 1:10PM | 5 Comments »


Win Bischoff To Chair Lloyds, Because Apparently There's No-One Else Available

Win Bischoff To Chair Lloyds, Because Apparently There’s No-One Else Available

Lloyds are lining up Win Bischoff, still pretty fresh from being dropped by Citigroup, to be the new Lloyds chairman. As we

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 1, 2009 11:35AM | No Comments »