Oct
31
There's been a change in tactics for Occupy Wall Street protesters. Apart from marching on the banks and delivering thousands of letters of complaint accusing them of corporate greed, there'…
Oct
31
Accounting scandals always have a way of spinning out of control, and taking on a life of their own. No one, for example, would have predicted that Enron would have ended up destroying Arthur Anders…
Oct
29
Criminals are making huge money in global markets. A UN report reveals that criminal proceeds amounted to 3.6 percent of global gross domestic product in 2009, amounting to a whopping $2 trillion. A…
Oct
29
The good thing about being part of the one per cent is that you can throw your weight around.Greg Palast has a piece in The Guardian where he talks about the not-for-profit Lower East Side Peoples F…
Oct
29
How do we make sense of Hewlett Packard's strategy? And how much credibility does it have? More to the point, does Hewlett Packard actually have a strategy?In August, the then HP CEO Leo Apothek…
Oct
28
Rumours are growing about Apple's move into TV, something I covered yesterday, but it's likely to go up against Google.As the Los Angeles Times reports, Google has signed deals to bring prof…
Oct
28
The New York Times reveals that Apple is looking at getting into a completely different type of television. And the idea is to make the television experience completely lazy and laid back.Nick Bilto…
Oct
28
The EU debt deal should be called the tooth fairy plan. That's the only way it will work, you have to believe in magic and miracles. Of course, world markets have soared after the deal was annou…
Oct
27
And so the European Union claims it has reached a deal with banks to take losses of 50 percent of their Greek bonds. It's even brought in the IMF to write off Greece's profligacy, in the hop…
Oct
27
Rajat K. Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, has been pinged for insider trading. He was feeding secrets to other insider traders like Raj Rajaratnam. The New York Ti…