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Travel Site Wars: Now Google Is Punishing Expedia Over Dodgy Paid Links By

PLENTY of small companies out there have found themselves sliding down the Google search results after they paid some consultant or other to improve their web rankings. Because the consultants … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2014 | In: Money, Technology, The Consumer | Comment

I’ll Bet You The Guardian Won’t Pay Any Tax On This Vast Profit!

 

NOW here’s a thing. The Scott Trust Limited, which owns the Guardian Media Group, which in turn owns The Guardian, is just about to make a vast profit. And it … (read more)

Posted: 21st, January 2014 | In: Money | Comment

The Age of The PC Is Ending

IT’S unusual for someone to go through two entire technological revolutions in their own, one, lifetime, but I think it might be happening to me. Might have to hope I … (read more)

Posted: 20th, January 2014 | In: Money, Technology | Comments (2)

Skype Is Now 40% Of The Entire International Telephone Market

THIS is a seriously astonishing little piece of information. Skype now carries enough international phone calls that its own traffic is equal to 40% of the entire international calling market. … (read more)

Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

Why Spotify Allows Unlimited Free Music

THE music streaming service, Spotify, now allows unlimited free listening. This is seen as a great step forward: the company’s technology is getting better, they’re getting better at selling ads … (read more)

Posted: 16th, January 2014 | In: Money, Music, The Consumer | Comment

The Vexed Question Of Children In Restaurants

Young Taiwanese children sit on western style toilets as they enjoy ice-cream served in a miniature Asian squat toilets at Marton, Taiwan’s most recent hit theme … (read more)

Posted: 15th, January 2014 | In: Money, Reviews | Comment

Google To Team Up With RyanAir On A Flight Comparison Site

THIS is a bit of a surprise really, given RyanAir’s long standing policy on being listed upon any of the flight comparison sites like Skyscanner. That they’re going to team … (read more)

Posted: 14th, January 2014 | In: Money, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

And Now The Parisian Taxi Drivers Are Beating Up Limousines

Taxi drivers stop the traffic on the highway leading to Paris, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 at Roissy airport. Taxi drivers across France were putting on the … (read more)

Posted: 13th, January 2014 | In: Money, Reviews | Comment

Become An Instant Millionaire For Only $100!

YES indeedy, as a signal that this altcoin market (Bitcoin, Litecoin and the like) you can become an instant millionaire in your own currency for the once only low low … (read more)

Posted: 9th, January 2014 | In: Key Posts, Money, Reviews | Comment

Making The Bankster Swine Pay For What They Did To Us

THERE’S a fairly strong current of thought these days that we must make those bankster bastards pay for what they did to us and the economy. Hanging a drawing is … (read more)

Posted: 8th, January 2014 | In: Money | Comment

Intel Declares Itself Conflict Free! Coltan Congo Killers Sacked

OR rather Intel declares that its processors are now made without the use of conflict minerals. These so called “conflict minerals” are the stuff mined by the rapists and murderers … (read more)

Posted: 7th, January 2014 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

No, We’re Not All Going To Get 3D Printers At Home

Tiny objects produced by a 3D printer sit on a table at the newly opened James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in … (read more)

Posted: 7th, January 2014 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

Help! Help! The American Spies Are Trying To Make Quantum Computers!

NOT that many of us know what a quantum computer is of course but if the Americans spies are trying to make one it must be evil, right? And yes, … (read more)

Posted: 7th, January 2014 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

The Blinding Stupidity Of Jonathan Porritt

HE’S written a new book he has, Jonathan Porritt, that leading environmental thinker of our age. And in it he’s described how we’re all going to get poorer. But the … (read more)

Posted: 6th, January 2014 | In: Money, Reviews | Comment (1)

No, The NSA Can’t Hack Your iPhone Any Time It Likes

ONE of the claims that was made over the break was that the NSA, the US crypto spies, could hack into anyone’s iPhone any time. This was all as a … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, January 2014 | In: Money, Reviews, Technology | Comment

Train Fares Rise: Blithering Sutpidity From The Campaign For Better Transport

Transport- Station Staff – Ticket Clipper – London – 1973: A British Rail ticket clipper waits for passengers for the last train to Bedford from St.Pancras … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, January 2014 | In: Money, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

Manufacturing’s Coming Back To The UK

MANUFACTURING is coming back to the UK. That’s what Vince Cable claims at least, that there’s more manufacturing coming into the UK than there is leaving for places with cheaper … (read more)

Posted: 31st, December 2013 | In: Money, Reviews | Comment

Italy’s Incredible Attempt At A Google Tax

THE Italians have got themselves all het up over the fact that Google doesn’t pay any tax in that country. Or at least one or two politicians have got het … (read more)

Posted: 30th, December 2013 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

Today’s The Day Vodafone Gets A Kicking About Tax

VODAFONE has just released the numbers for how much corporation tax it paid in the UK last year. Nowt.

Yup, they made a profit of £294 million in the UK and … (read more)

Posted: 30th, December 2013 | In: Money | Comment

Hurrah! Student Loans Are Working!

NOW this is excellent news, the entire point of our having student loans to pay fees, rather than grants or the government paying, seems to have sunk through into the … (read more)

Posted: 29th, December 2013 | In: Money | Comments (2)

Why Facebook Is Dead And Buried

THIS is a fairly strong prediction: that Facebook is actually dead and buried. At the same time as it manages to increase the number of users, increase the amount of … (read more)

Posted: 29th, December 2013 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

Apple Finally Signs The China Mobile Deal

 

 

THE financial markets have been waiting for this for some years: for Apple to sign up with China Mobile to take the iPhone. The importance of it is that China … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, December 2013 | In: Money, Technology, The Consumer | Comment

The Great Chinese Rare Earths Panic Is Over

YOU might recall back a couple of years there was a great panic as China decided to limit the export of the rare earths. These are the weird metals that … (read more)

Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Money | Comment

War On Want Goes Doolally Over Alliance Boots

WAR on Want has decided to show its gross ignorance by complaining about the tax affairs of Alliance Boots. It’s their new big campaign, they’ve even gone off and complained … (read more)

Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Money | Comment (1)

Dear Miliboy: It Ain’t A Tax Cut For Hedge Funds

WE have Ed Miliboy whining about a tax cut for hedge funds:
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, in September suggested that Labour would reinstate the tax, describing the Coalition move as … (read more)

Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment

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