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Move over Darling?

After last week’s Budget you would have been hard-pushed to think of somebody less popular with the business community than Alastair Darling.

After throwing a few decent jabs of response last Wednesday, you’d think David Cameron would have stepped back, out of the fray to let a bewildered Darling stumble and fall to his knees.

Cameron’s let him off the hook though and given him the chance of a manda...

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Not following his Dreams?

Ultimate networking for UK Web 2.0 firms

Silicon Valley – the golden gateway to dot com dreams. The home of Google and its kin. And the destination for WebMission08. We hear about some pretty interesting entrepreneurial ventures here and this is one to get the pulse racing.

The concept: 20 hot British web entrepreneurs will compete for seats on a trip to the heart of the global online space. Applicants to join the mission will ultimately ...

Judgement Day

It’s judgement day. The Fast Growth Business Awards – Growing Business’ annual awards – are just over a month away now, but today is the day the final decisions are made.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have read through a huge number of the entries already, as in order to get to this point we had to shortlist four companies for each of the 14 categories.

Four category winners will then go into the mi...

Tribewanted.com gets max exposure

Paradise or Bust was the promise in the title when the latest desert island reality show started last night on BBC2. Except that this is not a reality show. There are no contestants, no prize. It’s a business and this was a documentary. It seems the two are easily confused by some reviewers.

And you can see why to an extent. But Ben Keene and Mark James Bowness are entrepreneurs, who had an idea. T...