The IMF, it seems, is the place to be if you want to get your leg over. Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears to have slept with, or tried to sleep with, every woman under the age of 70 at the organisation. Now we hear Turkish potential replacement Kemal Dervis is also a player...... more
Market round-up: Like an addled drug addict coming down from a high, the Footsie stumbles from yesterday’s stonking gains to retreat into the red... more
Market round-up: It's a little chilly for donning your birthday suit but that has not stopped Travelzest — which owns Britain’s biggest naturist holiday group Peng Travel — from attracting attention... more
HMV is putting its hopes in releases of films such as Sex and the City 2 and Toy Story 3 in time for Christmas as it tries to bounce back from a disappointing start to the year... more
Petrol stations evoke a wonderful sense of US nostalgia. Now, as Olivia Cole reports, a group of London architects are creating their own cinematic homage to the iconic gas-stop forecourt... more
Warm weather and the World Cup are not good news for HMV as its regular video game players, music lovers and book readers tend to find other ways to spend their money and time... more
HMV unveils the next stage of its plan to ensure the survival of a business once seen as doomed, a shake-up that will see the group expand its focus on live music... more
City comment: Nipper the Dog, HMV's 111-year-old trademark, displays his characteristic “bite-yer-legs” action as chief executive Simon Fox shows Waterstone's boss Gerry Johnson the door... more
The resignation of Sir David Murray as chairman and director of Glasgow Rangers has sparked speculation as to who may take over the current Scottish Premier League champions should he go the whole distance and offload his majority shareholding ... more
It's war. KPMG has just nabbed Rentokil’s lucrative contract for internal auditing from arch rival PricewaterhouseCoopers — by offering a 30% discount to the PwC price... more
HMV sold more than 40,000 Michael Jackson albums in the three days after his death - far outstripping the sales leap it experienced after the deaths of Elvis Presley and John Lennon... more
Analysis: New Kids on the Block will become the first band to take to the stage at the newly christened HMV Apollo, formerly the Hammersmith Apollo... more
Retail: The demise of Woolworths and the knock-on effects for the likes of Zavvi leave HMV boss Simon Fox sad but confident his group can capture much of the market share that is up for grabs... more
Waterstone's had something of a coup last week, gaining the exclusive rights to launch the Sony eReader — the first true electronic book reader to make it to these shores... more
Retail: HMV is relying on a strong Christmas as the consumer crunch has started to hit its High Street entertainment and Waterstone's book stores... more
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