28 Dec 2007
Roll up roll up! Today's your last chance to enter MT's first ever end-of-year prize quiz on the business highlights of 2007...
18 Dec 2007
The much-vaunted iPhone is likely to shift a few units this Christmas, judging by the crowds in the Apple store. But it’s not just Steve Jobs who will benefit – the whole smartphone industry will get a boost.
17 Dec 2007
Online auction site QXL may have suffered from the eBay effect in the UK, but that may not stop its board enjoying a big pay-day this week.
13 Dec 2007
We've all received the occasional email from a wealthy Nigerian businessman who's promising to transfer us 10m quid if we'll only hand over our bank details – and probably wondered how anyone could fall for it. But the scary news is that email spammers could be getting smarter...
10 Dec 2007
The former Apax Partners boss, who now divides his time between social investment, property management and the Middle East peace process, has written a book about entrepreneurialism called 'The Second Bounce of the Ball'. MT caught up with the City grandee to find out what compelled him to put pen to...
07 Dec 2007
Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, was apparently set to marry his girlfriend at the weekend - and the guest list was likely to have a higher net worth than most continents.
28 Nov 2007
UK workers are working longer hours than they have been for a decade, according to a new TUC study. For the first time since 1997, the number of people working more than the legal maximum of 48 hours has actually gone up – which is bad news for our family lives.
15 Nov 2007
Many successful entrepreneurs have a touch of the 'awkward squad' about them: a non-conformist outlook, a talent for innovation, a willingness to challenge the status quo. But one academic thinks that many UK schoolchildren with this kind of potential are not getting the recognition and support they...
08 Nov 2007
Mixed fortunes for two of the UK’s telecoms giants in the last 24 hours. Both BT and Virgin Media reported increased revenues, with big improvements in their broadband sales – but the two sets of results met with a very different reaction.
07 Nov 2007
For most companies with international ambitions, China represents a tantalising prospect – after all, cracking such a huge market could pay huge dividends. But this week’s very public castigation of Yahoo boss Jerry Yang for his company’s role in the 2004 jailing of Chinese reporter Shi Tao highlights...