Swordplay enjoys the juxtaposition of this story from the Telegraph, informing us that the sun is setting on the US dollar as a new global currency order emerges, and this one from the Times, revealing that there has been a run on the Brixton pound. What price SW3 as the new Wall Street? Image courtesy [...]
Should we greet Robo.to with glee or despair? The FT tells us that this whizzy new application will be available in the fourth quarter on the iPhone and handsets that run Google’s Android operating system, offering a stream of information about callers, including personal videos, photos and their current location. Apparently, the Robo.to social address [...]
If Carolyn Elefant were a UK blogger, her farewell from Legal Blog Watch might have merited a Private Eye poem by the infamous E. J. Thribb. Eye addicts delight in the teenage Thribb’s ‘In Memoriam’ poems, but they are not always penned with the recently deceased in mind. And so, without further ado, here is [...]
As if bankers haven’t had enough disastrous PR, along comes investment consultant Justin von Tunzelman, who groped and stripped a 29-year-old after she had passed out after drinking too much at a function in a London pub. The charmless von Tunzelman was yesterday sentenced to 30 months at Her Majesty’s Pleasure by Southwark Crown Court, [...]
An interesting snippet, this, from the FT, shedding light on Twitter’s role in stocks and shares. We learn that traders are signing up to Twitter and using it to communicate views and opinions about their stocks. There is no suggestion of Twitter being used as a mechanism for insider dealing, though this must be a [...]
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