Smoking ban a year on
It’s been a year since the smoking ban was introduced in the UK, and so far there has been a mixed response as to whether or not this has helped in any way at all.
Clearly there are the health benefits, nobody wants to be stuck in a room full of smoke, and not even smokers [...]
The world’s largest arms dealer is?
Well in 2007 the world largest exporter of weapons is the UK! Surprisingly according to the UK Trade and Investment (UKTi) exports of arms came to a massive £9.7 billion, more than the US, who most people think are largest arms supplier in the world.
However the sort arms that we are talking about here are [...]
The business of being green
There are not many places that you can go or see on the TV where eco friendly items are being marketing. The problem is for the average person going green is not very easy, first there is the time consumption because inevitably going green slows things down and then there is cost, going green can [...]
June 11, 2008The real price of oil
Nobody can escape the talk of oil these days, no matter where you are located, oil and the price of oil has an impact on virtually everyone’s lives in one way or another and yet there is talk that the price of a barrel of oil could be as much as sixty per cent of [...]
June 5, 2008US drivers running out of gas
It seems that despite the problems with getting enough fuels to supply the fuel hungry Americans, they are not taking this very seriously on a personal level. For they are still driving everywhere that they can, but unfortunately because of the cost of fuel, they are trying to stretch out every last drop from the [...]
May 30, 2008Apple to launch new promotion
As in the past few years Apple is about to announce some special deals for teachers and students, this would normally mean that a student or teacher who purchases a new Apple computer will get some significant discounts or even the opportunity to get some Apple products.
This year it has been predicted will be the [...]
How much should we be saving?
If we knew the answer to this one, then we would all be safe from worries of what is going on in the world, when a credit crunch happens as it is doing at the moment. But even if there was some magic solution that we could follow and in the event that we make [...]
May 15, 2008Current TV offers $100 for Digg
It seems that there are constant offers being made for the news listing site Digg, these offers range from $4 million to around $30 million, but there was a time when Digg could have made the founders a lot more extra cash.
It was in 2006 that Current Media the business fronted by the man who [...]
Clintons in debt to $20 million
When running for the most powerful job in world, allegedly! You would have thought that the candidates may have had some sort of grounding in how to run an effective campaign, these cost huge amounts of cash, which is where the fundraising comes in.
Yet, despite having been given millions of dollars from her backers, it [...]
Business backs Brown
It has been said recently that the tax changes would force many business and business people to think about living abroad. If this happened it would cause the government and country some serious problems, but it would seem that the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has the support of some the countries top business people.
A lot [...]
Lipstick clue to economic state
There are many indicators which can be used to determine the state of the economy, one of the most accurate signs is high street shopping. This is because of the spending involved, but even though the spending is down in the amount spent, the actual high streets are still full of people shopping.
This goes to [...]
Cheap food is no more in the UK
Despite all of the warnings, the food crisis still grows. But we have seen this type of problem arise before, but the difference is now that the food crisis could soon be hitting countries closer to home.
We have since the end of the war had the luxury of cheap food, and recently over the past [...]
Water and Oil equals world domination
As almost everyone on the planet has realised we are using up the natural resources and there will come a time when they have been depleted, but before we get to that stage there will be time when military power is over taken by those who have a hold over the worlds most precious resources, [...]
March 19, 2008The McCartney’s get down to business
The business of divorce is one that can cost millions of pounds for celebrities, the recent court appearance of the McCartney’s has shown us all that it makes no difference who is right or wrong the bottom line is all that matters and this case had a large bottom line.
The media had stood guard outside [...]
National shopping habits change
Every year the office of national statistics draws up the UK’s shopping basket, this is the products that we are buying in the stores and every time this happens the products at the top swap around as some become more popular, while others may fall out of favour with the UK shopping public.
WHAT’S IN:
Pure fruit [...]
The world’s youngest billionaire
We all knew that as soon as the social networking site Facebook, got a huge infusion of cash that the founder Mark Zuckerberg was made for life. But quite where he stood in the league of the world’s richest people was not known until the publication of the Forbes magazine’s list of the World’s Billionaires.
The [...]
PayPal and your cash
There is growing concern as to exactly how much the online payment processor business PayPal is making off the back of all that money that goes through the business everyday. Customers are concerned that PayPal are making money not only through the charges that they make, but also from interest gained on the large float [...]
February 22, 2008Oil prices soar again
We could be looking at the prices of crude oil settling at new all time highs of above the $100 per barrel level. We have seen that the price did rise above the $100 mark but it did settle down later at below this figure, but it seems now that the prices are set to [...]
February 13, 2008Haggling good for business and life
Being in business doe not mean that you need to pay the first price for everything, indeed being in business means that people expect you to be hard to deal with; it is all part of the game. Of course it is embarrassing to start with, but this is money and the less you spend [...]
February 11, 2008Ten business mistakes
Running your own business is a dream that many people hold dear to their hearts, so it is a terrible thing that when the opportunity comes along within a couple of years the whole thing be a failure and costing the owner a lot of money, how could something like this be avoided?
The main thing [...]