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Plastic boat that takes a lot of bottle to sail

16.11.09
Explorer David de Rothschild spoke for the first time today about his mission to sail from San Francisco to Sydney in a catamaran made from plastic bottles... more

Husband who beat cancer wins £45m lottery jackpot

09.11.09
Britain's record-breaking lottery winners speak of their joy at landing the biggest jackpot win in history... more

Oracle takeover of Sun receives US approval

21.08.09
Oracle, the software giant run by outspoken billionaire Larry Ellison, has won US approval for its $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems... more

Are the social networkers now ruining it for Apple?

31.07.09
Everyone here is expecting Apple to announce at least one new product in the next month or so, just in time for the end-of-year shopping season. ... more

Now is a good time to start a business, institute says

29.07.09
The recession should not damp new business ideas, the Institute of Chartered Accountants said ... more

Old school approach by a new fund

10.07.09
We're getting more information about the Andreessen Horowitz venture fund, news of which first leaked out last month... more

Why start-up fever will never cool for some of us

19.06.09
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and his business partner Ben Horowitz have just finished raising a new $300 million (£183 million) early-stage venture fund, further evidence that investors here are still willing to make bets on promising Valley start-ups... more

The wonder of west Cornwall

17.06.09
Head to St Ives and you get glorious beaches and wonderful seafood — and now you can stay in apartments boasting five-star-hotel luxury ... more

All the fun of the faire as DIY goes back to the future

05.06.09
The Bay Area’s Maker culture, which I wrote about a few months back, had its fourth big annual outing last weekend when some 80,000 people attended the two-day Maker Faire in San Mateo, at the Valley’s northern edge ... more

Heavy mob are jostling for position

24.04.09
While the Valley is home to some of the nimblest new businesses on the planet, it has its fair share of lumbering heavyweights. And in the past few weeks, some of the heaviest have been forced into strategic moves that will be reverberating around here for a while... more

BHP Billiton 'has a new £18bn bid target in sights'

27.03.09
Having failed last year to buy rival mining giant Rio Tinto, it now looks as if BHP Billiton is lining up another major acquisition.... more

IBM 'in talks to take over Sun Micro at £4.6 billion'

18.03.09
Computing giant IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems in a cash deal worth $6.5 billion... more

Gods are failing to smile on the works of minerva

06.03.09
Whatever happens to Minerva, the property company named after the Roman "goddess of 1000 works" will leave at least two monuments to its labours in the City... more

Footsie back on a downer as miners take a drubbing

20.02.09
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Hewlett fails to key in to its sales targets

19.02.09
Computing: Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has missed sales targets as the global recession hammers sales... more

Computer firm advised by Taylor

27.01.09
One of the firms which employed Lord Taylor as an adviser was Electronic Data Systems... more

Albion is retro caff at a retro price

14.01.09
If Boundary feels like a subterranean secret, Albion, its cut-price brother, is right out there on the street, proudly calling itself a caff.... more

Lenovo to axe 2500 from its workforce

08.01.09
Technology: Computer-maker Lenovo Group is slashing its workforce by 11% as it forecasts its first loss in three years... more

Downturn? Things are looking up

12.12.08
While the US recession wasn't declared official until the end of November, the Valley's been in lockdown mode for a while now... more

It’s a good time for Hester to quit property for RBS

14.10.08
The appointment of Stephen Hester as chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland marks a long-awaited return to banking for the former Credit Suisse First Boston and Abbey National man after four years as head of British Land... more

Jobs toll at EDS ‘may pass 3,000’

24.09.08
Technology: Fears are growing that Oyster Cards operator Electronic Data Systems could axe more than 3,000 jobs as part of a cull of 24,600 announced by parent Hewlett-Packard... more

Hewlett’s Oyster firm buy to cost 25,000 jobs

16.09.08
Technology: Computer giant Hewlett-Packard will sack 24,600 people around the world, with a substantial job cull expected in the UK, as it digests services firm Electronic Data Systems, creator of the Oyster card... more

Just £53,000 debt? That's a reason to be cheerful

28.08.08
Often I feel as if I reside at the epicentre of credit crunch hell. A helpful survey this week seemed to confirm my worst suspicions... more

Laptops give HP profits a boost

20.08.08
Printers and computers giant Hewlett-Packard defied harsh trading conditions to deliver a 14% jump in net profit for the third quarter... more

Sighs of relief as the Footsie gets a fightback under way

20.08.08
London shares staged a tentative rally as nervous City professionals took heart that a financial Armageddon seems to have been delayed, at least for a while... more

Hewlett-Packard eyes £6.5bn EDS takeover

13.05.08
One of the largest IT employers in the country in talks about takeover by computing giant ... more

Strange times if savers are scarier than raiders

08.04.08
There is definitely more trouble ahead. The only thing we can be sure of is that we don't know exactly what form it will take... more

Big in business? Beware the Icarus complex

03.03.08
January has been the month of very public falls from grace in the business world. Last week, Thomas Krens, 61, resigned as director of Manhattan's prestigious Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation. Earlier came the news that investor Eddie Lampert had lost a ton of money at his hedge fund, ESL Investments. A year or two ago he seemed untouchable, the first Wall Street financier to earn more than $1 billion in a year. Then there's Barry Diller, normally venerated in media circles, who has seen the worth of his interactive commerce company, IAC, tank, and is now locked in battle with co-owner John Malone... more

Gaudy rather than Gordy

27.02.08
The service at Gordon Ramsay's latest gastropub, The Warrington, is sparkling. What a shame the food doesn't match it.... more

Now that's street art, Banksy

12.06.07
The National Gallery today challenged cult graffiti artist Banksy by taking its works on to the streets.... more

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