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Is the internet bubble and the lofty share prices (often without lofty earnings) handicapping down to earth businesses and pressuring otherwise solid companies into making short term decisions in an a...
I like eBay. I've bought things on it and sold them too - quite obscure things - and every time I've dealt with genuine, friendly people. When buying I've picked up a bargain - and when selling I've g...
The daughter of a friend has an Ebay account. Yes I know, but she was selling a few of grandads unwanted treasures. As a student she works part time and is saving for an o/s trip. In Ebay's payment pr...
It has emerged that personal information belonging to thousand's of council tax payers has been found on a computer that was sold on eBay for just £6.99. According to a Daily Mail report, thousands o...
Despite incurring massive losses from the credit crunch and its rogue trading scandal, French banking group Société Générale is bucking industry trends by launching a campaign to recruit around 20,000...
As shocking as the security blunder reported in yesterday's Daily Telegraph was, organisations would do well not to dismiss it as a one-off blunder. Studies conducted by BT and the University of Glam
UK tabloid The Sun is reporting the story of a disgruntled Lloyds TSB customer who changed his phone and Web banking password to 'Lloyds is Pants', only for a member of staff at the high street bank ...
NASA are busily downplaying news that laptops aboard the International Space Station were infected with a worm which steals user details for online games. It's not clear how the infection occurred but...
The debate over whether innovation in outsourcing can truly exist seems interminable. At the same time as commentators debate about what innovation really is, suppliers continue to jostle for a place
In order to give young people more science and technology knowledge and boost the UK’s skills in this area, the CBI is calling for a change in how students take science GCSEs. At the moment the majori...
Just read a fascinating article which examines in some detail how a particularly sneaky bit of malware can fool the unwary Windows user into parting with their credit card details. The malware poses a...
HSBC stands accused of 'cultural insensitivity' after dressing up an overweight white man to look like a sumo wrestler and running it on ads across the UK. Complaints have come in that it looks like t...