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Call for pay freeze in public sector
A pay freeze for senior public sector staff including judges, family doctors, NHS managers and top civil servants was proposed by ministers yesterday, along with rises of less than 1 per cent for hospital doctors, dentists and ordinary civil -servants.In evidence to the review bodies that recommend pay for...
Tags: Public Sector, Dentist, Servant, Freeze, Company News, General News, Government News, Health & Healthcare, Human Resources & Employment, Pay Awards & Benefits, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-05
Internet's impact on media law under spotlight
The reach of parliamentary privilege and the efficacy of High Court injunctions in the age of the internet came under the spotlight yesterday, after The Guardian newspaper won its battle to change a court order that prevented the media from reporting the contents of a parliamentary question.The decision by...
Tags: Media, Lawyer, Carter-Ruck, Trafigura, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, General News, Government News, Law & Legal Issues, Politics, Science & Technology, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-13
Trading in online virtual goods set to top $1bn
Revenues from the sale of virtual goods will top $1bn this year in the US, according to analysts, a 100 per cent leap over last year that signals the arrival of a new online industry in the largest internet market in the western world.The findings, to be released in...
Tags: Goods, Facebook, Games, Personal Technology, Company News, Forecasts & Predictions, General News, Financial Times
News items 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
Gates' charity to focus on food security
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder turned philanthropist, has put the focus of his multi-billion-dollar foundation firmly on food security, saying yesterday that making poor farmers more productive will have a "massive impact" on hunger.The move by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation into food security after an emphasis on...
Tags: Security, Food, Food Security, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Agricultural Issues, General News, Health & Healthcare, Financial Times
News items 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
Sky shrugs off controversy
British Sky Broadcasting, never long out of the headlines, has a busy period ahead. Its first quarter earnings are being hyped by analysts, who think recent trends in media consumption are all flowing BSkyB's way, writes Ben Fenton .In the next few months, the satellite broadcaster will also be...
Tags: British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc., Financial Accounting, TVs, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Company News, Divestment, General News, Interim Results, Law & Legal Issues, Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulation of Business, Results, Shareholdings, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-18
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
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
Reputation of armed forces suffers blow
Pakistan's armed forces have a formidable reputation. In the eyes of many, the military is the strongest institution in a security state. Its officers are trained at Sandhurst and West Point. It boasts US artillery, Chinese air power and an indigenous nuclear weapons programme.The armed forces number 619,000 people...
Tags: Pakistan, Attack, Taliban, Security, General News, Government News, National Security, Nuclear Issues, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-11
Foulkes to quit Southern Cross
Southern Cross Healthcare, the care homes group that last month raised £13.3m ($21.2m) from property and business disposals, is set to part company with its director of operations.Kamma Foulkes, who had been in the role since early 2007, was responsible for about half of the group's operations and was...
Tags: Group, Banking, Corporate Governance, Financial Services, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Company News, Divestment, General News, Health & Healthcare, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-05
French minister denies under age sex
Frédéric Mitterrand , French culture minister was at the centre of a political storm yesterday over admissions that he paid for sex with "boys" in Thailand.The revelations resurfaced after Mr Mitterrand expressed support for Roman Polanski , the film director and confessed child abuser, who was arrested in Switzerland...
Tags: Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, Government, Vertical Industries, Arts Antiques & Collecting, Crimes, General News, Government News, Politics, Financial Times
External links 2009-10-08
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
ITV's succession soap casts headhunters in an unflattering light
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
News items 2009-10-11
Investors weigh risks of inflation and deflation
Rising gold prices and falling government bond yields reflect investors' uncertainty over whether inflation or deflation is the threat to fear for price stability. This week's data should provide fuel for both sides of that debate.UK inflation data for September, due out tomorrow, should show a headline consumer prices...
Tags: Deflation, Investor, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Consumer Prices, Economic Indicators, Economic News, Forecasts & Predictions, General News, Government News, Market News, Market Reports, Financial Times
News items 2009-10-11
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
BT Vision chief aims to recreate his Beckham coup
The former barrister who masterminded the deal that put David Beckham's wedding photographs in OK! magazine is now trying to turn BT's fledgling pay-television service into a mass-market phenomenon.BT Vision chief executive Marc Watson gave OK! its best-selling print run in 1999 with the England footballer's marriage photographs when...
Tags: British Telecommunications, Vision, Ofcom, Strategy, Management, General News, People, Financial Times
News items 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
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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