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Samsung has announced it’s getting into the app development market, with its “bada” software platform and developers toolkit. We saw Paypal…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 10, 2009 12:57PM | 1 Comment »
Last year saw Mars chew up Wrigley for $23bn, right as the world was barrelling towards all-out recession. Now once again, makers of food you…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 9, 2009 12:38PM | 2 Comments »
Sometimes you wonder if financial regulators can only spot wrong-doing when it gets chucked onto their desk in a folder marked “WRONG-DOING”. First there was…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 27, 2009 11:00AM | 1 Comment »
After the slew of high-profile fraud cases that came to light as the recession deepened, things have settled down somewhat – fraud fans like us…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 6, 2009 12:03PM | 1 Comment »
Steve Brill has been determined for years to get people to stop getting their news for free, starting up and then shutting down
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | June 25, 2009 12:09PM | No Comments »
For about a week last autumn, when the banks started getting bailed out, it looked like full-on nationalisation might actually happen. In the U.S., you…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 9, 2009 12:42PM | 3 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 »
John Thain will be giggling into his Jobseekers Allowance this morning with the news that Ken Lewis, the Bank of America chief that oversaw the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 30, 2009 11:03AM | No Comments »
Danny Pang, the Californian money-manager whose life has seemingly been unravelling since he was born, has finally gone into custody today. He’s been…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 29, 2009 1:35PM | No Comments »
John Thain, the ousted head of Merrill Lynch with a taste for soft furnishings a pimp might balk at as being “too showy”,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 27, 2009 1:32PM | 2 Comments »
Print media is screwed – we all know that. But now Google CEO Eric Schmidt is telling newspapers to innovate, and the Associated Press is…
Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | April 24, 2009 12:56PM | 1 Comment »
Since buying Skype for $2.6bn, plus $530m in performance-based payments, eBay hasn’t found a way to make the free-phone-calls company fit…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | April 15, 2009 11:53AM | No Comments »
