Business News
Confidence falls on fears of 'double-dip' recession
ComRes survey shows a majority of businessmen detect no signs of recovery
Inside Business News
SFO launches investigation into collapse of Kaupthing
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Fraud office will examine how investors were enticed into high-yield bank accounts
Time names Bernanke as its person of the year
Thursday, 17 December 2009
There has rarely been such a perfect revision of the cliché that "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it", Time magazine declared yesterday as it named Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, as its person of the year.
Abu Dhabi says it was duped by Citigroup over investment deal
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Emirate desperate to tear up agreement after share collapse at banking giant
Microsoft settles with EU after 10-year browser row
Thursday, 17 December 2009
PC users to get a pop-up 'choice screen' of 12 browsers
Joe Lewis turns up the heat in the Mitchells & Butlers boardroom brawl
Thursday, 17 December 2009
The power struggle at Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) ratcheted up a notch yesterday when the dissident shareholder Joe Lewis demanded the appointment of four new directors and the immediate removal of the pub group's outgoing chairman.
New part-time jobs boost rise in employment
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Hopes that Britain may soon emerge from its worst recession in three-quarters of a century were boosted with the publication yesterday of the latest jobless numbers.
Facebook investor buys into Zynga
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Russian DST leads $180m investment in largest social gaming group in the world
Banks wary over Myners' proposals for 'living wills'
Thursday, 17 December 2009
London's investment banks yesterday responded warily to government plans to extend the requirement to create a "living will" to them.
Business Diary: Bebo website founder splashes his cash
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Michael Birch isn't short of a few quid, having flogged his social networking site Bebo to AOL for £850m last year. Still, you can't help admiring his generosity: at a benefit evening he hosted for Charity Water this week, Birch amazed guests by promising to personally match all their donations, up to a total of $1m.
Miami Herald asks readers for donations
Thursday, 17 December 2009
The Miami Herald has taken a surprise step in its attempt to combat diving circulation numbers and boost online earnings, by asking its readers for handouts.
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