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I know, I know … we all want to think we are hip and cool brands, so I got a reality check today from The Brand Channel, who just ran a survey of brandjunkies asking a range of questions: What brand would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party?    What…

OK.  After all my cynicism about Second Life becoming mainstream, mainly due to the Wild West nature of the Linden Labs offer, I take it all back. My issue was related to mashups, bombing, cyberterrorism and more.  It was also related to the Second Life banking crash after they outlawed Gambling. As Neil Katz, chief…

OK.  After all my cynicism about Second Life becoming mainstream, mainly due to the Wild West nature of the Linden Labs offer, I take it all back. My issue was related to mashups, bombing, cyberterrorism and more.  It was also related to the Second Life banking crash after they outlawed Gambling. As Neil Katz, chief…

OK.  After all my cynicism about Second Life becoming mainstream, mainly due to the Wild West nature of the Linden Labs offer, I take it all back. My issue was related to mashups, bombing, cyberterrorism and more.  It was also related to the Second Life banking crash after they outlawed Gambling. As Neil Katz, chief…

I regularly use Yahoo! chatrooms to look at what people are saying about different stocks and industries, so I was intrigued to see a link to Google Finance today. To me, it appears to be almost the same as Yahoo! Finance, and so where’s the value-add?  Then I started looking at sector analysis and found…

For regular readers of the UK comic magazine Private Eye, they have decided to launch one of the world’s more interesting hedge funds. Called the Curse of Lord Gnome Fund, it will have £200 million of funding with annual returns expected to be 20% against volatility of 8% – 10%.  The aim of the fund…

For regular readers of the UK comic magazine Private Eye, they have decided to launch one of the world’s more interesting hedge funds. Called the Curse of Lord Gnome Fund, it will have £200 million of funding with annual returns expected to be 20% against volatility of 8% – 10%.  The aim of the fund…

Interesting to see that Bear Stearns are suffering the same issue as NCR, seeing this report on 28th March: "A senior Bear Stearns executive with 20 years’ experience has been accused of defecting to rival Morgan Stanley with so many print-outs of confidential client information that the troubled bank’s Boston office ran out of paper."…

BATS Trading has announced plans to launch in Europe, putting further pressure on traditional exchanges. Their aim is to capitalise on the opening of the European markets to new execution and trading venues, such as Chi-x, Smartpool, Turquoise, Virt-x, MarkitBOAT, Rainbow and more.  Something that has been actively promoted by the implementation of Europe’s Markets…

BATS Trading has announced plans to launch in Europe, putting further pressure on traditional exchanges. Their aim is to capitalise on the opening of the European markets to new execution and trading venues, such as Chi-x, Smartpool, Turquoise, Virt-x, MarkitBOAT, Rainbow and more.  Something that has been actively promoted by the implementation of Europe’s Markets…