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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 25th June 2008.
At a recent London dinner for geeks there was a sharp intake of breath and a flurry of questioning hands raised when Richard Moross, ceo of web 2.0 darlings MOO.com, revealed his company made a 70% margin on its mini-cards.
But as Moross was rightly keen to point out, MOO has had a fully functioning business [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 30th April 2008.
At least that’s what Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, seems to think according to today’s Times. More particularly he’s concerned that the top executives at said banks are using other people’s money to do it. So the bail-out the other week should be seen as an offer of breathing space and time [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 23rd April 2008.
In recent weeks, given the remit of covering business money, I’ve said quite a lot about the state of the economy. I’m going to give it a break this week; either confidence will return or it won’t (and I still believe a lot of the problem has been about either confidence or more likely overconfidence [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 21st April 2008.
If you have to buy or sell your goods or services in foreign currencies, you know what damage an exchange rate shift can do to you. Especially if there are long gaps between the deal, the delivery and the payment.
Large companies, those in the Footsie 350 say, have online trading systems and get favourable rates [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 26th March 2008.
Amid all the financial jollity that the Easter Season has become, it’s almost a pleasure to be on the receiving end of a good old-fashioned attempt at a scam. Yes, someone has tried to nick some of my precious IT kit.
I’m trying to sell a second-hand mobile phone through Amazon’s marketplace scheme (and this is [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 2nd March 2008.
Today sees the official launch of Conjungo, a technology supplier search engine aimed at companies who are looking for local or specialist suppliers of business technologies.
Over 15,000 companies are in the database already and Conjungo wants to become the natural port of call for anyone wanting to find trustworthy, relevant and local ICT (information technology [...]
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