2010 UK Budget Date Announced

The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed today that his Budget Report Statement to the House of Commons will occur  on Wednesday the 24th March 2010 at 12.30 pm.
news source:  http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/budget2010.htm

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Contactless arrives for business customers

Barclays has become the first bank in Europe to launch commercial contactless debit cards to its business customers. From March, all Barclays Business customers receiving new or re-issued cards will find that they come with contactless technology as standard. This enables them to pay for low value transactions by holding the card over a reader, [...]

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Snowman in Hells Guide to Getting (refused) Finance for Your Business - Discuss

Discussion of http://www.startinbusiness.co.uk/features/snowman-in-hell-guides/tips-to-be-refused-commercial-finance.htm
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Work begins on biggest council house building programme in two decades

Housing Minister John Healey has hailed the start of the biggest council house building programme in nearly two decades as work began today on the first of over two thousand new homes to help tackle waiting list pressures.
Mr Healey saw work get underway today in Tyneside on the first new site for Government funded council [...]

Alistair Darling confirms return to 17.5 percent VAT on January 1st 2010 in Pre-Budget Report

The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer,  Alistair Darling, introduced a temporary lower rate of VAT in last year’s pre budget report.
There was some speculation that he might have extended this reduction beyond the original term. However, in today’s pre-budget report statement to the House of Commons, he said:
I can confirm that VAT will return to [...]

MIT Team Uses Multi-Level Marketing Principles to win DARPA $40,000 Treasure Hunt in just 9 hours

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that the  MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that required participants to locate 10 large, red balloons that had been placed at undisclosed locations across the United States. The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) team [...]

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