Keeping business finance on track
Whatever the size of your business, keeping up with your finances is of paramount importance and yet sometimes for the small businessperson, it can seem that keeping on top of the finances is more like a part time job.
However, there is no escape from this chore, no matter how much it is disliked. The business [...]
Hundred billion notes on eBay
For some people being rich is the be all and end all of everything, with the ultimate goal being a millionaire. However, these days just being a millionaire is so common as there are so many of those around, now a multi billionaire that is a completely different story.
Nevertheless, it may not be as hard [...]
Food prices increasing due to bio fuels
When bio fuels first started appearing they were greeted as the next greatest thing to hit the automotive world. But as this new form of making our fuel resources last longer has become popular, there are now concerns that maybe bio fuels aren’t as great as we first thought.
Environmental campaigners are now claiming that the [...]
The cost of copying
In Canada there is a new copyright law going through the process needed, which could mean that anyone found copying copyrighted work will no longer have to face a potential fine of a $100,000, in fact with the limitations, it may only be as much as $500!
This is because the law is changing the statutory [...]
£40 million for a Monet
When it comes to finance there people around that do not appear to be affected by the credit crunch, this can be normally found true when it comes to fine art auctions. This is most certainly true when it comes to the fins art sale at Christies in London this week.
They had a particularly nice [...]
Doctor gets £35 per week
With many services being stretched to the limit, it must be strange to find people who are highly qualified people living in this country but because of their circumstances cannot work and cannot return to their own place of origin.
Welcome to the life of an asylum seeker, where there are many fully qualified professionals, who [...]
Gay marriage business worth millions
The wedding industry has always been a big business, but with marriages not being as popular as before times could have been tough, but as with many areas of business every cloud has a silver lining and this cloud came just at the right time.
Gay weddings are now the big business which is fuelling other [...]
The finance of oil production
As the price of oil increases on a day to day basis, it is getting seriously hard for average motorist to sit back and keep paying up, but as they need their cars for family and work they are finding themselves no option but to pay up and get on with it.
But why is the [...]
The Pentagon misplaces $15 Billion
Everyone who is in charge of any organisation whether it is large or small, private or publicly funded, always feels a little bit of anxiety so we can only imagine how the person in charge of the Pentagon feels when the auditors come back saying that there is $15 billion missing!
But we should not be [...]
The most expensive day
Could the 6th May actually be the most expensive day on the yearly calendar for UK residents? Well if we listen to the Carphone Warehouse then we would just have to agree. They have been doing a bit of research and have found the real reasons behind why this date is so significant for the [...]
May 6, 2008Iron Man makes $100 million
The latest comic strip from Marvel to hit the big screen has done so with some success, only being out for less than one week the film “Iron Man” has taken $98.6 million at the box office, but these figures were not enough to take the number one spot of best debuts which are non [...]
March 25, 2008Why do we get into debt?
If there has been a lesson recently about the dangers of being in debt it has to be the problems that came about due the US sub prime mortgage situation. This has had a knock on effect around the world and in particular here in the UK, with Northern Rock being the most significant casualty.
So [...]
Euros accepted in New York
The strength of the Euro cannot be denied these days, it is not the Mickey Mouse currency that many people believed that it would be. But the biggest casualty of the Euros success has to the US Dollar. This has been seen to slip further and further down, so much so that travelling to the [...]
March 6, 2008Mastercard the best corporate card
For the many executives out there who like their expenses and corporate cards they could no better than the Mastercard for it has become the Best Corporate Cards and Expense Service Provider for the second year running by the magazine Global Finance Magazine.
This makes Mastercard the card of choice for many companies who issue them [...]
Bankers give up on Northern Rock
With the UK government stating that they will not be bailing the struggling bank out because the appropriate funding will not be available to them, so then like with any other industry the solution could be found within the ranks of their own kind.
But with an estimated £15 billion to find it seems that even [...]
Save energy and money
Whenever the environment is mentioned this is almost always followed by the fact that we all need to cut back on the amount of energy that we are all using as this effects the emissions released into the atmosphere and therefore goes on the cause global warming.
Here are some energy saving tips:
Lower your water [...]
Writers strike could cost TV revenues
The viewing figures that many TV channels have come to take for granted and therefore use to attract advertisers who are the life blood of the channel, may be at risk and for no other reason than the writer’s strike that has crippled the production of many of the world’s favourite programmes.
The strike has been [...]
Man gets £41,000 phone bill
Signing for mobile phone that costs only $10 per month for unlimited mobile browsing sounds like a great idea, which is why Piotr Staniaszek from Canada signed up for it, but when he received his first bill, he could not believe his eyes, the total was around $65,000.
Clearly this was a mistake, so he left [...]
Mobile phone number madness
In these days of excess, it would seem that there is nothing that the super rich would not buy and in many cases the price has no bearing on the actual value of the product.
In this we are talking about a simple mobile phone number, clearly its not going to be your average number like [...]