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Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
There is a great analysis of the FT's Long Room by Roland Legrand, over at Media Shift . Entitled the Velvet Rope Approach to an Online Community,perhaps it makes sense to cut down on quantity, and create an exclusive members-only structure. That is what the Long room has done and New York-based Alphaville editor Paul Murphy explains some of the thinking behind it: It is "an exclusive comment...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - French investment company Wendel has started looking for "modest" acquisitions, its new chief executive Frederic Lemoine told the Financial Times newspaper on Tuesday.
CapitalClimate (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The lead editorial in today's Financial Times newspaper strongly endorses a science-based climate change policy: As next month’s Copenhagen conference approaches, politicians should not be distracted by the apparently growing volume of sceptical voices challenging the need for global action against climate change. Some of the sceptics may have scientific backgrounds but they are not in the mainstream...
Cynical Chatter From The Underworld (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Well I haven’t blogged for a while, but two newspaper articles have dragged me back kicking and screaming. The first article was published in the Financial Times on the 24th of October Titled: Dispatch from Barrow The article is about Barrow-in-Furness, I’ve read the article 4 times now and I still can’t see anything in it [...]
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
"Give us fiscal continence--but not yet." That's a very good line. I am going to steal it. You know, Warren Buffett and company could choose to make the *Washington Post* as informative and as witty as the *Financial Times* tomorrow--if they cared to. Both may die in the coming crash of the newspaper industry. But we all should really be doing everything we can to make sure that the FT and...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JP Morgan Chase & Co raised concerns about Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and his associates as far back as 2001, the Financial Times reported, citing an internal company document seen by the newspaper.
France24 (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The British government is set to approve refinancing plans by part-nationalised bank Lloyds worth 25 billion pounds, the Financial Times said Thursday. Chancellor Alistair Darling will tell the bank within days it can go ahead with the refinancing which includes a rights issue of up to 15 billion pounds (16.6 billion euros, 24 billion dollars), the newspaper said. Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), which...
The Curated Object (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
BROOK S. MASON US Correspondent The Art Newspaper The lovely and talented Brooke S. Mason, US Correspondent of The Art Newspaper author of a design column on artnet writer for the Financial Times, has take a few moments out of...
Chinafrica (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Guinea’s ruling regime is in talks with China over investment in its natural resources, the west African country’s minister of mines said, reported British newspaper the Financial Times on Monday. Mohamed Thiam said talks could be concluded by the end of the year between the regime in Conakry and the Hong Kong-based China International Fund (CIF) [...]
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
As bailed-out institutions plan to share billions among staff, top figures in the City – including bank directors – call on the Government to take decisive action at last The Independent ".... George Soros (below) became the latest high-profile figure from the world of finance to condemn the bankers, and call for watertight restrictions on their activities yesterday. He said: "Banks...
Local Food (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Copenhagen will fail - it's official. At least that is what United Nations climate change chief Yvo de Boer told the Financial Times on Tuesday.Mr de Boer told the newspaper that the Copenhagen climate change conference will not produce a new international treaty to replace the Kyoto treaty. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2009/10/climate_conference_se... Are we really surprised? In the Us the...
BBC NEWS | Richard Black's blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
I don't think it's just my imagination; diplomatic moves and announcements and challenges on climate change really are coming thicker and faster now than at any time since it first became an issue of political note 20 years ago. And no wonder, with the start of the UN climate summit just 45 days away, and various roads to Copenhagen taking routes through all kinds of capital cities and all kinds of...
AdPulp (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Newsday , the Long Island newspaper, is about to put a pay wall in place, according to The New York Times . And a spendy wall at that. The paper, owned by Cablevision, plans to charge $5 a week, or about $260 a year (Cablevision customers will get the subscription for free). The Wall Street Journal is $149 a year, by comparison. Other papers in the paid content game include The Financial Times , The...
BBC NEWS | Ethical Man blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Copenhagen will fail - it's official. At least that is what United Nations climate change chief Yvo de Boer told the Financial Times on Tuesday. Mr de Boer told the newspaper that the Copenhagen climate change conference will not produce a new international treaty to replace the Kyoto treaty. Since that is precisely what the Copenhagen conference was intended to do this is a significant admission...
Procure IQ (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Yesterday's Financial Times contains an article titled Class of '83 author recalls 'likeable' guy that took me back to my B-school days and begins as follows: "Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, got a shock when he opened the newspaper ...
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weblomaniac | 01/25/2009
McDonalds bucks the recession by announcing today that it will create 12,000 part time jobs and open 240 new restaurants in Europe this year. According the Financial Times, the company will hire 50 people at each of the 240 new restaurants, mostly in ...
dhall987 | 01/21/2009
Sony Corp is preparing to announce on Wednesday or Thursday details of its December restructuring plan, including where job cuts will fall, the Financial Times reported.
Cat Bauer | 07/27/2008
( VENICE, ITALY) I am honored that Venetian Cat - Venice Blog is featured in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine this weekend, July 26/27 2008 -- especially because today is my birthday! Please run out and buy yourselves a copy and flip to Page 9:) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c3136350-57a3-11dd-916c-000077b07658.html You will see a page entitled That was then... this is now: Venice There is a quote...
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