Business Life Cycles


Do you need cash for your business idea? Dragons Den 2012

Last Year’s Dragons’ Den was record breaking, attracting more viewers than ever before. New Dragon Hilary Devey arrived, arched her shoulder pads and firmly established her place amongst the revered business leaders, and some of Britain’s best entrepreneurs gained the cash they desperately needed to turn their business fortunes around. Now it’s 2012 and [...]

Gartner Reveals Top IT Predictions for 2012 and Beyond

Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2012 and beyond. Analysts said that the predictions herald changes in control for IT organizations as budgets, technologies and costs become more fluid and distributed.
This year’s selection process included evaluating several criteria that define a top prediction. The issues examined included relevance, [...]

Summary of UK Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2011

The Chancellor has today delivered his autumn statement to Parliament, alongside the publication of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s updated forecasts for growth and borrowing. He announced permanent reductions in spending to ensure that the UK meets its fiscal targets, using some of those savings in the short term to fund infrastructure investment to generate [...]

Business Video - Top tips for small business success

The UK’s most innovative firms share their business secrets.

Every day across the British business landscape new companies are starting up and fresh ideas are being generated. 2011 has seen a plethora of bolder and better business ideas.  These gems can be new products and service ideas or equally new ways to improve existing offerings. The [...]

The story of Bill Roedy, the man behind MTV.

What makes business rock?

Bill Roedy, the man behind MTV, gives a preview of his new business memoirs documenting how he built a single channel into the largest media network in the world.
Its global audience is the envy of the world’s media corporations, with a network which included 200 channels and 200 digital properties in 175 [...]

OSCAR Introduces Marketing Initiative for Franchisees

Running her business for five years Clare Muir, from Hampshire, took up a new OSCAR marketing initiative that has helped her to see the bigger picture on how to promote and refocus the image of her business.
“Even after running a successful OSCAR business for five years I still needed to know more and a new [...]

Audio Podcast - Farm shop loyalty scheme helping local businesses take on the big boys

As an alternative loyalty scheme to rival supermarkets signs up more than 500 businesses in just six months, a local business owner under the scheme, Heather Copley talks about her experience running a small business in today’s climate.

A shopping loyalty scheme set up to get people out of supermarkets and into farm shops is gathering [...]

Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

Combination will Supercharge Android, Enhance Competition, and Offer Wonderful User Experiences
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and LIBERTYVILLE, IL - AUGUST 15, 2011
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a [...]

Listing Your Products Online With Amazon

In a competitive and tough business environment a lot of businesses, big and small, are looking to grow their online presence and using multiple e-commerce channels is often a key part of their strategy. One such channel which is becoming an increasingly important driver of incremental sales and brand awareness for many businesses is Amazon [...]

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Drive, by Dan Pink - a YouTube video, first recorded on 8th April 2010.

If you are setting up a new business and trying to devise plans for staff remuneration packages this video might be of interest.
The presenter argues that the “carrot and stick” approach to staff motivation works well for simple, straight forward, mechanical work. [...]

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  • WBNews: Wall Street update 03 Feb 2012 February 3, 2012
    Wall Street celebrates as unemployment in the United States falls to its lowest for almost three years. The surprise drop in the US unemployment rate has pushed the Dow share index in New York to its highest level since May 2008, four months before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt.

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  • GlobalBiz: The Road Ahead For Electrical Engines? 04 Feb 12 February 4, 2012
    Alexander Schey is just 26, and in the garage of a fairly ordinary house in west London where he, and a few other fellow London students, built a battery powered electric car. Then, to raise awareness of their new battery management system, they drove along 25-thousand kilometres of the Pan American Highway. But this was more than just an elaborate student […]
  • GlobalBiz: Do It Yourself Jobs: 28 Jan 12 January 28, 2012
    If times are hard, why not set up your own business rather than try to find a job somewhere else? Peter Day hears from young entrepreneurs who think that one way of beating recession is to start from scratch. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott

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