An iPhone application that recently made its way into the Apple App Store has sparked some controversy — a digital version of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf translated into Spanish.

According to the blog TechCrunch, the application comes complete with a swastika icon, and a 9+ rating, indicating that it is appropriate for children from the age of nine. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) contains Hitler's political ideology. He dictated the book while imprisoned following his failed Munich putsch in 1923. Apple's usually stringent censorship of what the company terms “objectionable content” has made the discovery all the more surprising.

For instance, Apple recently rejected an application by electronic card company Someecards because it apparently ridiculed Barack Obama.

However, Apple has also accepted an application called Asian Boobs, which depicts Asian women in suggestive poses.

Following protests, the Apple store appears to have now removed the application from its inventory.

But why was it ever there?

Justin makes it to the top

MUCH puzzlement at the decision of Esquire magazine to herald Justin King as “Most influential business thinker” in its Man at the Top Awards. Apparently, the accolade is to “the most inspirational savant or commentator who's had the greatest effect on UK business.” While King undoubtedly deserves enormous credit for turning round Sainsbury's, it's hard to see him quite in Esquire's terms — and why he should leave the likes of media titan Rupert Murdoch and best-selling Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb trailing.

Perhaps there is hidden genius in King's mantra of “Making Sainsbury's Great Again” and his favourite “Buy One Get One Free” and the “Three for Two” offers. The Esquire citation says that “great customer service has been at the heart of his recovery plan and he regards the engagement of employees as vital to unlocking this”. Customer service and staff motivation — now there's a thing.

Blue Oar gang is back

Great to see the old crew back together at the stockbroker formerly known as Blue Oar from the good old days of the Worthington Nicholls share ramping scandal.

The broking house which has changed its name, Windscale-like, to Astaire Securities, was this year fined £225,000 for issuing misleadingly optimistic trading statements about air-conditioning group Worthington Nicholls in 2006 and 2007.

The shares shot up before the true dismal picture emerged. Chief executive during much of the time was Edward Vandyk, the GP-turned serial investor. He has since returned to the group and been keen to draw a line under the affair. Now he has hired his old finance director from the time as well, Chris Roberts.

As a spokesman says: “The Worthington Nicholls debacle was very unfortunate. They have learnt their lessons and moved on.”

Unfortunately for hundreds of honest small quoted companies desperate for funding, many investors who put money into Worthington shares before they collapsed have also learnt their lessons. They will never back an AIM-listed stock again.

* THE Stock Exchange announcement of Chris Roberts' arrival was longer than usual appointments press releases. Why so? Because of the section at the end detailing his involvement as a non-executive director of EBop Media, EBop Limited, Unica Communications and Eighteen Global Incorporated. What do these companies have in common? They all went bust, in most cases leaving creditors out of pocket. Never mind, eh, Edward?