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Literary agents attack Google's book plans
A contentious deal that would give Google huge sway in the growing market for digitised books has come under fire from leading literary agents in Britain, one of the world's biggest publishing centres.The 21 agents - representing classic and contemporary authors from DH Lawrence to Hilary Mantel, winner this...
Tags: Google Inc., Agent, Attack, Real Estate, Business Operations, Awards, General News, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-08
GSK sees revenue growth as way ahead
GlaxoSmithKline's traditional focus on prescription medicines in developed countries may fall to just a quarter of total sales, as the head of the UK-based drugmaker pledged further diversification to focus more on revenue growth than margins.Unveiling third-quarter results, Andrew Witty, who was appointed chief executive of the pharmaceuticals group...
Tags: Revenue, GSK, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Appointments, Board Changes, Company News, General News, Human Resources & Employment, Interim Results, Marketing, Results, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-28
NHS offers hospital to private bidders
An NHS district general hospital, complete with accident and emergency and maternity services, is being offered up for take-over by the private secto r for the first time, alongside bids from other NHS organisations.But the conditions being attached to the seven-year franchise to run the 369-bed Hinchingbrooke Hospital in...
Tags: Hospital, Healthcare, Government, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, General News, Health & Healthcare, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-29
Hope grows for safe slimming pill
The prospects of a safe weight-loss pill for the obese improved this week with the presentation of clinical results in the US at the annual scientific meeting of the Obesity Society in Washington.Several slimming products have been withdrawn from the market in recent years because of side-effects. But Arena...
Tags: Patient, General News, Government News, Health & Healthcare, Summits & Talks, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-29
Bowled over by a forceful lesson from financial history
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana famously put it. On that basis, Lords of Finance - winner of the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award - teaches a forceful lesson to the world's economic policymakers.*Liaquat...
Tags: Financial, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Awards, General News, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-29
Horses help in race to beat flu
Designing an influenza vaccination strategy that keeps pace with the rapid evolution of flu viruses is a vital public health issue. But until now, it has been an art as much as a science. There is much debate, for example, about how much protection against swine flu is given...
Tags: Public Health, Flu, Epidemic, Healthcare, Cyberthreats, Security, General News, Health & Healthcare, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-29
Nintendo faces profits blow as Wii sales slow
Nintendo yesterday warned that full-year profits would be far below its previous forecast , as it unveiled a new version of its handheld videogame console in an attempt to recapture consumer interest.A lack of "software titles which consistently drove hardware sales" for its Wii home console, the impact of...
Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Console, Nintendo Wii, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Company News, Consumer Issues, General News, Interim Results, Profit Warnings, Results, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-29
Grey is the new colour
"A strange mixture of well-meaning steps at social reform, half-baked schemes for quasi-socialist industrial planning, regulation to protect consumers, welfare programs to help the hardest hit, government support for the cartelisation of industry, higher wages for some, lower wages for others, on the one hand government pump priming, on...
Tags: Bank, Securitisation, Government, Financial Services, Awards, Company News, General News, Government News, Government Policy, Human Resources & Employment, Pay Awards & Benefits, Regulation of Business, Society & Social Affairs, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-30
Terminator film rights auction set to test Hollywood's mettle
The rights to the Terminator film franchise will be auctioned this month in a deal that will test Hollywood intellectual property valuations at a time when film industry profits are under pressure from falling DVD sales.The sale, which comes weeks after the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were...
Tags: Hollywood, Auction, Halcyon, Litigation, Cable, Business Operations, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Arts Antiques & Collecting, Company News, Franchises, General News, Marketing, Patents Licensing & Standards, Sales, Financial Times
News items 2009-11-01
MBAs bring fresh perspective to global problems
By developing a low-cost structure and specialising in maternity care, LifeSpring Hospitals, a fast-growing private healthcare chain in India, can charge Rs2,000 ($43, ?29, by Financial Times
Tags: MBA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Company News, General News, Health & Healthcare, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Times
News items 2009-11-01
Screen test for billboards as they spearhead the digital advance
The oldest advertising medium is due for a makeover, according to William Eccleshare, the new chief executive of Clear Channel's international outdoor advertising business."People have been sticking things on walls for centuries, but there's now a real opportunity to change the business," he told the FT. "In 10 years,...
Tags: Advertisement, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Appointments, Board Changes, Company News, General News, Human Resources & Employment, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-26
Swine flu vaccine and strong pipeline give Novartis a shot in the arm
Novartis yesterday said it expected to sell about $600m worth of its new H1N1 pandemic swine flu vaccine in the fourth quarter, significantly more than the Swiss pharmaceuticals group had earlier forecast.The increase came on top of guidance that the group expected to sell more of its core pharmaceuticals...
Tags: Vaccine, Novartis AG, H1N1 Flu, Rejuvenation Effort, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Company News, Facilities & Equipment, General News, Health & Healthcare, Marketing, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-22
Unwelcome spotlight on ITV headhunters
The tortured ITV succession process has drawn criticism from recruiters and thrown an unwelcome spotlight on their industry.The board of UK's biggest commercial broadcaster is searching for a new chairman and chief executive at the same time, leaving it in what headhunters describe as a "worst-case scenario".Peter Waine, a...
Tags: Board, Chairman, iTV, CEO, TVs, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Appointments, Company News, General News, Human Resources & Employment, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-11
Government climate body calls for U-turn over energy deregulation
Liberalisation of the UK's energy market should be reversed, with ministers taking more control of decisions such as building new renewable energy generation, the government's Committee on Climate Change will say today.The call for a U-turn on 20 years of government policy that has created one of the world's...
Tags: Emission, Deregulation, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Company News, Competition, Environment, General News, Government News, Government Policy, Regulation of Business, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-11
Supreme Court to hear appeal by Enron chief
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Jeffrey -Skilling's appeal over his criminal conviction in the Enron case.The decision raises the prospect that yet another verdict in the government's five-year investigation into criminal activity at the Houston energy company could be overturned.Mr Skilling, Enron's former chief executive, was...
Tags: Enron Corp., U.S. Supreme Court, Conviction, Government, Vertical Industries, Crimes, General News, Government News, Law & Legal Issues, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-13
China's e-reader future hard to plot
When Anne Ruan goes to work in the morning, the Beijing subway is so crowded she can barely find a spot to stand. But the real estate agent ignores the jostling of the other commuters and focuses on her book. Her e-book, that is.Ms Ruan is one of about...
Tags: E-reader, China, Mobile, E-book Development, E-books, Personal Technology, General News, Holidays & Travel, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-15
Star quality that put small start-ups on the big screen
As the child of drug addicts, Rodney Walk-er's upbringing in a series of Chicago foster homes was not auspicious. Yet now, aged 20, he has been one of the top finalists in a business plan competition, has won a full scholarship to Morehouse College in Atlanta, and is the...
Tags: Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Company News, Education & Training, General News, Strategy, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-15
London's Maggie's Centre is a Stirling winner
It seemed somehow destined that this year's Stirling Prize, British architecture's best-known award, would go to Richard Rogers' practice Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Lord Rogers had two buildings on the shortlist of six and the award was presented in the former Billingsgate fish market, converted by his practice...
Tags: Practice, London, Healthcare, Awards, General News, Health & Healthcare, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-18
GSK faces Merck in vaccine price war
GlaxoSmithKline plans to undercut its rival Merck in a battle for sales following US regulatory approval for its cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix.The UK-based pharmaceutical group said it would charge less than Gardasil, Merck's vaccine, which generates more than $1bn ( by Financial Times
Tags: Vaccine, Merck & Co. Inc., Healthcare, Company News, General News, Health & Healthcare, Regulation of Business, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-19
Merck reveals doctors' speaker fees after calls for transparency
Merck paid more than $3m in speaker fees to US doctors during the second quarter of this year, according to figures from the company that represent a step towards greater transparency in the commercial links of the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical group with prescribers.The company has provided less information, however,...
Tags: Eli Lilly & Co., Payment, Merck & Co. Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Company News, General News, Health & Healthcare, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-20
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