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Good day to bury bad news on spin

27.10.09

Whitehall's spin doctors are crafty. Last Thursday, while the row was raging about British National Party leader Nick Griffin�s appearance on Question Time and the Royal Mail strike was causing chaos, the Government slipped out the news that � after 10 months of discussion � it was refusing to back a compulsory register of lobbyists ... more

Facebook�s Boy Wonder: the new Bill Gates?

21.10.09

Social networking site�s 25-year-old chief hints at his ambitions as the industry�s Web 2.0 Summit takes place in the US ... more

Unions are livid at Tory pay freeze

08.10.09

Union leaders are furious about Tory plans to impose a pay freeze on public sector workers to help cut the UK�s Everest-style debt mountain ... more

From unfortunate to loser in a meritocratic age

20.07.09

If the successful merit their success, do the unsuccessful deserve their failure, asks Alain de Botton... more

JJB gets a boost from the world�s richest man

16.07.09

Troubled leisurewear retailer JJB Sports got support from an unlikely source today � Bill Gates ... more

Talks are the new gigs

13.07.09

Liz Hoggard has the lowdown on a conference that attracts the likes of Bill Clinton, Bono and Bill Gates... more

Excessive excess is one addiction beautiful game will never kick

19.06.09

Sport: Will this deal be the end? Unlikely, because the international plutocracy is immune to catastrophic recession... more

Business beware the Sugar rush that wiped out Amstrad

15.06.09

No one doubts Sir Alan Sugar produces good television, but there's never been a government appointment that has prompted such ridicule � and not a little discomfort... more

The age of hardball

18.05.09

People skills and being nice are fine in the good times but now the bully is back...... more

Buffett�s in for a buffeting

09.04.09

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Russia�s rich hardest hit by downturn

11.03.09

Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch who contentiously entertained Peter Mandelson and George Osborne on his yacht last summer, has been humbled by the global economic storm... more

Bill Gates gives Imperial College �5m to develop Aids tests

17.02.09

Microsoft mogul Bill Gates has donated �5 million to Imperial College London towards the manufacture of a home test for Aids patients in developing countries ... more

Now City of London Corp gets political

09.02.09

So Labour is to put up candidates for the City of London Corporation elections. Labour says it wants to "highlight what is wrong with the established governance of the City of London, and how its largely unaccountable leaders have brought Britain to recession"... more

Jetting into a PR bailout disaster

29.01.09

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I'm relishing the upside to the downturn - you can too

16.12.08

Warren Buffett, America's most successful investor, is a man of clear vision. I know this because I once got hopelessly lost at Bill Gates's house looking for the loo and bumped into Mr Buffett, who pointed me in the right direction... more

The secret of your success? 10,000 hours

19.11.08

Practice really does make perfect, says a new book. So just add perspiration to your inspiration ... more

Gates shrugs off recession worry

06.10.08

Technology: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has played down recession fears, saying investment in new technologies will help drive the global economy ahead... more

Bill Gates warns on hit to West�s aid

25.09.08

Credit Crunch: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that support for humanitarian projects in the Third World will slump due to the financial meltdown... more

BBC under fire for showing fewer episodes of Money Programme... just as Britain sinks into recession

03.09.08

The BBC has come under fire over plans to axe TV business show The Money Programme as a regular series, just as Britain sinks into economic crisis.... more

Former home of Playboy bunnies to become hotel

03.09.08

More than 20 years after closing its doors, the Playboy Club in Park Lane is to be reborn as a hotel... more

It's a win-win for Chernin at News Corp

26.08.08

Filings by News Corp in the US contain the information that, should anyone other than Rupert Murdoch take charge of the company, chief operating officer Peter Chernin is to receive $40 million... more

University isn't always the way: just ask Sir Alan

06.06.08

More students are dropping out of university than ever before - and one writer whose son did so says the education system must stop betraying them... more

Gates hands over Microsoft control

05.06.08

Bill Gates is finally stepping down from the management of the software giant he founded 33 years ago... more

A foreigner flies the flag for UK

27.03.08

The generosity of non-doms in our midst generally puts the locals to shame... more

Billionaire London is home to 36 on Forbes richest list

06.03.08

London is the billionaire capital of Europe - with more of the super-rich living here than ever before... more

Gates 'plotting a Yahoo board coup'

20.02.08

Microsoft is reportedly trying to seize control of the Yahoo board to force through their takeover offer.... more

Which hotel bar gets your vote?

09.05.07

Help us find London's coolest hotel drinking venue and you could win a £500 tab at the victorious bar.... more

McQueen's fans bid a cool �650k

13.11.06

Bidders paid more than �650,000 to buy a piece of Hollywood's coolest actor, including cars, trucks, motorcycles once belonging to the late Great Escape star Steve McQueen.... more

Mining the mithering for every giggle

08.11.06

As comedians go, Andy Parsons is about as bankable as they come and his new show proves he is also a fully paid-up pupil of the Grumpy Old Men Comedy School.... more

Park take it to the max

09.10.06

Maximo Park's angular precision has won them loyal fans, and here the pop-punk songs came close to matching their specatacle, says John Aizlewood.... more