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City remains positive despite shockers from BA and RBS

06.11.09
Stock market investors were doing their best to look on the bright side today after the combined losses from Royal Bank of Scotland and British Airways reached £1.79 billion during the first six months of the year ... more

Praise from Morgan fires up Vedanta

01.10.09
Vedanta Resources claimed the crown among top stocks today as City heavyweight Morgan Stanley predicted the miner’s shares could double in price — even if metal prices remain stuck at their current levels ... more

LSE takes IT in-house

16.09.09
Xavier Rolet stamped his authority as new chief executive of the London Stock Exchange with an £18 million deal to bring the market's key trading technology back in-house... 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

Change takes a turn for the worse in a sombre week

12.06.09
After the giddy fun of last week's Maker Faire, the wacky science festival for inventors, the mood here has turned decidedly melancholy... more

Backroom boys who struck gold

08.05.09
The greatest fortunes in California’s first gold rush were made by the likes of Leland Stanford and Collis P Huntington, shopkeepers who sold the miners their shovels. The pair of Sacramento outfitters went on to become two of the Big Four investors in the Central Pacific Railroad, America’s first transcontinental railroad, and respectively built the best university and the finest library in the state ... 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

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

Yahoo set to name new chief executive

09.01.09
Internet: Online search company Yahoo is close to naming a new chief executive, insiders say... 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

Dotcom pair Alberto Vilar and Gary Tanaka are facing US jail sentences for fraud

20.11.08
Fraud: Two stars of the dot-com era, who were also among the biggest donors to London arts and education, face jail in the US after being found guilty of fraud... more

Obama in at the deep end as US woes grow

06.11.08
The economic crisis facing Barak Obama was made starkly clear as corporate America hit the president-elect with a barrage of bad news... more

Rush for global free trade deal before Bush goes

06.11.08
Britain and Brussels are pushing for a global free trade deal before Christmas amid fears that Barack Obama could scupper an agreement... more

Decline and fall of a master of the universe

04.11.08
He rode high on the dotcom boom, giving millions to Imperial College. But now, in his first interview, business wizard Gary Tanaka, detained in New York, tells of his fight to stay out of jail... more

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