We’ve already noticed how Oswald Grubel, chief exec of UBS, has a dogged positivity usually associated with Portsmouth managers, evangelical Christians and the…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 18, 2009 12:17PM | 1 Comment »
Online ad spending may be on the up, set to rise by 7% next year, but judging by various recent industry reactions, the…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 16, 2009 1:28PM | 2 Comments »
The Internet Advertising Bureau’s Engage conference went down yesterday, in a week where the media industry is thoroughly unimpressed with the returns from…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 12, 2009 12:40PM | No Comments »
Two stories to faintly warm the cockles of the old-school print journalist today – firstly the Observer isn’t getting canned as previously mooted,…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 11, 2009 12:24PM | 1 Comment »
Samsung has announced it’s getting into the app development market, with its “bada” software platform and developers toolkit. We saw Paypal…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 10, 2009 12:57PM | 1 Comment »
There’s been a flurry of activity across the Rupert Murdoch media empire recently as the Digger hatches his plans to get people to pay for…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 9, 2009 12:23PM | 3 Comments »
Yesterday Warren Buffett, the world’s second richest but most twinkly man, made what one hedge fund manager described as “his last meaningful deal”…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | November 4, 2009 12:41PM | No Comments »
Paypal is stepping its game up this week by announcing its plans to go into the third-party application market. They’re not just developing some keeping-up-with-the-Joneses…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 3, 2009 12:02PM | 1 Comment »
RBS, poster boy of the financial crisis and 70% owned by the government, is finding that despite being in a much smaller banking sector, no…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 2, 2009 12:34PM | No Comments »