It is hard to find a chink in the armour of Wall Street's technology titans. Apple's figures may have disappointed Wall Street this week, but it is all relative... more
Feature: London 2012 will be a new experience for one volunteer. Urvasi Naidu, who has been a volunteer for every Olympics since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, always carries some masking tape in her handbag... more
Two weeks ago, Quintain Estates chief executive Adrian Wyatt was in northern Portugal, speaking at the launch of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Living PlanIT, a loose-fit organisation encouraging the building of a fully wired community of 250,000, some 15 kilometres north of Oporto... more
The owners of Skype, led by private equity firm Silver Lake, are set to earn a profit of more than $5 billion - three times their original investment - on the sale of the Internet phone giant to Microsoft... more
From learning about the death of Osama Bin Laden to discussing royal bridesmaid Pippa Middleton's derrière, social media is revolutionising the way we share news, ideas and opinions... more
Interesting appearance this week at the Commons Culture, media and Sport Select Committee of the top duo at regulator Ofcom -just as Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt puts the finishing touches to his decision about Rupert Murdoch's takeover of BSkyB... more
Market round-up: Takeover gossip gushing around North Sea explorer Premier Oil send its shares shooting to the summit of the FTSE 250 leaderboard... more
Intel will raise its dividend by 15%, providing welcome a note of optimism after network gear maker Cisco Systems helped drive stocks lower this week with a disappointing sales forecast
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David Cameron bows to business pressure over the Government's immigration cap as he announces grand plans to turn the East End into Britain's Silicon Valley... more
Silicon Valley is the leading place in the world for hi-tech growth and innovation; the place where companies head if they want to break the mould... more
Market Round-up: Shares in the owner of London’s Tilbury docks Forth Ports surge after the ports-to-property group says it has spurned the advances of its suitor again... more
Heavy tax demands on London's hedge funds are unlikely to spark an exodus of financial operators, a survey by property adviser Cushman & Wakefield shows... more
After yesterday’s Cadbury excitement, a sluggish session on the stock market as most attempts to drum up business meet deaf ears - but one stock was making noise... more
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
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
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
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 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
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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
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
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
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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