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Red faces at Goldman after BP’s triumph

28.10.09
Oops! Even the best of them can get it wrong in the stock market. Just ask Goldman Sachs which had a sell rating on BP ahead of yesterday’s bumper third-quarter numbers which drove the shares 5% higher to a year’s high of 597.4p... more

Is this the smartest application ever to be invented?

19.10.09
A technique called augmented reality is coming to a mobile phone near you. It can not only tell you where you are - but what you are looking at. Mark Prigg reports... more

Recession hits finance firms' brand value

18.09.09
Brand value of many famous financial institutions has taken a battering over the past year but fast food companies are doing well in the recession... more

Home Tweet home ... inventor runs his cottage via website

08.09.09
A home where Twitter tells its owner when dinner is ready, if someone is at the door or even when a mouse has been caught in a trap has been unveiled... more

EU competition probe stalls Oracle's £4.5bn bid for Sun

03.09.09
The £4.5bn takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle was put on hold after European regulators launched an in-depth investigation two weeks after their US counterparts approved the deal... 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

Automatic C-charge payment to beat fines

31.07.09
Congestion charge fines will soon be a thing of the past for many motorists thanks to an automated payment system being introduced next year... more

Shock as Microsoft posts worst show in 23 years

24.07.09
Technology investors were today coming to terms with a shockingly large fall in sales and profits at Microsoft ... more

City Spy: Bailed-out RBS is flying with Yanks

22.06.09
Royal Bank of Scotland has said a big “thank you” to the British taxpayer with the bailed-out bank’s latest cost-cutting exercise: it has scrapped its deal with British Airways, and has now instructed staff to fly American Airlines... more

Next Fifteen pulls plug on bid talks

22.05.09
Public relations firm Next Fifteen Communications called off takeover talks with suitors Huntsworth and Chime Communications ... more

UK defence firm QinetiQ gets an American accent

21.05.09
Qinetiq, the former Ministry of Defence (MoD) research arm parodied in the James Bond films by the gadget-making boffin Q, is to replace its controversial chairman with an American and is within weeks of earning more in the US than from the UK ... more

Check into the jet set's new comfort zone

10.05.09
You get sleek design and all mod cons when you wing in to Farnborough, home of the air show, says Jo Fernández... more

Pandemic fears wipe billions off travel shares

27.04.09
Billions of pounds were wiped off the value of travel companies around the world amid growing fears of a swine-flu pandemic... 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

Shares slump over fears of ‘grimmest Budget in years’

20.04.09
Shares in London tumbled as the City braced itself for one of the grimmest Budgets in years... more

IBM's £4.7bn swoop for Sun falls apart

06.04.09
The proposed takeover of computer and software firm Sun Microsystems by IBM has collapsed after the two companies failed to agree a price... 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

Boris considers bringing in off-peak rate for C-charge

16.03.09
Motorists could be charged varying amounts according to when they enter the congestion zone... more

Microsoft ‘looking for big staff cuts’

15.01.09
Technology: Software giant Microsoft is said to be looking for big staff cuts across all divisions but may fall short of the 15,000 cuts rumoured to be planned... more

Multinationals may be Satyam winners

13.01.09
Scandal: Accenture and IBM could be winners from the massive fraud at Indian outsourcing firm Satyam... 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

Oh! What a lovely Cold War exhibition

19.09.08
Art and design, displayed with coherence and humour, throw new light on a dark era for the Cold War Modern: Design exhibition.... more

Down but not out, airline boss brought low by the herd instinct

03.09.08
Interview: Lawrence Hunt won’t blame the oil price and can’t prove his giant rivals set out to scupper Silverjet. With the right backing, he’d try the same challenge tomorrow... more

Still Rolling for EMI - but all in the past

29.07.08
Crumbs of comfort for EMI, owned by private-equity firm Terra Firma.... more

Advantage tennis fans with new Wimbledon scoreboard

22.05.08
It could spell the end of a familiar sight at Wimbledon... 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

IBM profits defy gloomy forecasts from analysts

17.04.08
Computer-services firm IBM is the latest technology bellwether to defy analysts' predictions of a slowdown... more

IBM rocked by a federal bids ban

01.04.08
Technology giant IBM is banned from getting new business from US federal agencies... more

Toll rakes in £1 billion but is it good value?

18.02.08
Some time last summer, or maybe early autumn, a London motorist provided the billionth pound of revenue under the Mayor's congestion charge... more

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