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Watch Rowena Mead On The BBC

Just a quick reminder to all of you who enjoy Rowena Mead’s series of blog posts here on SmallBizPod - she’s being featured on a Money Programme special this evening at 7.00pm on BBC2.
If you miss the episode, you ought to be able to watch the programme again for 7 days on the BBC’s [...]

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No rush to Vista

Microsoft has been anxious to move the world to its new operating system, Vista. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the world has been less than keen to do its bidding. Many machines with Vista pre-installed can be downgraded back to Windows XP. And customers are taking advantage of this. Also, retail sales of Vista have proved disappointing. [...]

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Handle the infoglut

How do you keep up with what’s going on in the world? Apart from reading and listening to SmallBizPod’s offerings, that is. A regular newspaper, The Economist, Real Business, Radio 4, tv news? Lots of different sources compete for your attention and there are only so many hours in the day.
One answer might be to [...]

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How to display movies in thin air

I don’t know if “Finnish company opens a Silicon Valley office” is sufficient pretext for a blog post. But here goes anyway.
FogScreen allows image projection into more or less thin air. It does it by creating a fine ‘dry’ mist out of water and electricity. You know how your headlights bounce back at you in [...]

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FreeAgent Central reduces the bean-counting burden

Perhaps it’s a sign of my misspent youth (I used to write ledger and payroll software) but accounting software bores me witless. I am more than happy to leave SAP and Sage coverage to others.
Last week, AccManPro’s Dennis Howlett and Twinfield’s David Terrar persuaded me to turf up at the announcement of what I thought [...]

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SmallBizPod #39 - how to float on AIM

SmallBizPod #39 - how to float on AIM

Marcus Stuttard deputy head of AIM, the London stock exchange for growing businesses, discusses the practicalities of listing on AIM and the future of the market.

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SmallBizPod #46 - Interview with Lord Billimoria & Michelle Dewberry

SmallBizPod #46 - Interview with Lord Billimoria & Michelle Dewberry

Live from the Business Startup Show including interviews with Lord Bilimoria of Cobra Beer and Michelle Dewberry, young entrepreneur & winner of The Apprentice.

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SmallBizPod #65 - David Wei, CEO of Alibaba.com

SmallBizPod #65 - David Wei, CEO of Alibaba.com

Interview with David Wei, ceo of Alibaba.com, the global online marketplace for SMEs, which in 2007 achieved the most successful stock market flotation since Google.

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SmallBizPod #62 - Social Firms - an exciting challenge

SmallBizPod #62 - Social Firms - an exciting challenge

The positive impact of social firms including interviews with Sally Reynolds, ceo of Social Firms UK and Nigel Kershaw, chairman of The Big Issue and ceo of Big Issue Invest.

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