With great fanfare, Google launched its apparent Facebook-killer, Google+, this summer. So far the verdict among even the nerdiest social media nuts is: we're not sure what to do with it... more
Don't expect too much negative comment from the big banks' analysts on Groupon, which is lining itself up for a flotation to raise $750 million... more
The reaction to the acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL has run from sceptical to enthusiastic, with more than a dash of wonderment at the remarkable personal story behind the Post's founder... more
While Alan Johnson wanted the 50% top rate of tax to be regarded as temporary, his successor as shadow chancellor Ed Balls favours keeping it and seeing it kick in at a lower threshold than the present £150,000... more
Google reignited the row over its corporate tax avoidance as its annual UK revenues smashed through the £2 billion barrier for the first time last year... more
The PayPal founder Elon Musk bombarded British actress Talulah Riley with hundreds of red roses, cascades of diamonds and promises of intergalactic travel. How could a girl resist, asks Hermione Eyre... more
It was Google’s 11th birthday this week and to celebrate, the ubiquitous search engine company misspelled its name as Googlle on its home page. The double “l” was supposed to look like the number eleven... more
Today's 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China sees huge celebrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the world's largest man-made space... more
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple’s board of directors, admitting increasing competition between the two made his position impossible
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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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