Social networking site Pinterest has raised $100m, valuing the two-year old business at £1.5bn.
The entrepreneur behind brand surveillance business Artesian on doing business with banks, hiding your highs and lows, and how some sales people are 'spectacularly average'.
14 Mar 2012
| by David Buttress
Our 'Dream Budgets' series continues with this submission, penned by David Buttress, MD of online takeaway company Just-Eat. If he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, he'd tackle job creation, the digital economy, and bad politicians...
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal has acquired a 3% chunk of Twitter through his investment vehicle Kingdom Holding Company.
The north-south divide is opening up again, as unemployment hits hardest outside London. But firms like Sage in Newcastle prove there's life in the regions yet.
The scale of Warren Buffet's investment in IBM. The business magnate and self-confessed technophobe has overcome his aversion to that newfangled electronic whatnot to buy up 5.5% of the technology giant.
14 Nov 2011
| by Jos White
Jos White, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of venture capital firm Notion Capital, sifts through today's rising stars of the web to present his pick of today's internet start-ups.
19 Oct 2011
The number of people in line for a surprise tax rebate.
14 Oct 2011
The (surprisingly large) number of cash machines in the UK that dispense £5 notes.
A survey suggests people are getting bored of social media. U2 frontman and Facebook stakeholder Bono: take note...