Category: Business

  • Apple’s corporate omerta and share price growth

    At lunchtime, I was reading “Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple,” a most excellent feature about Steve Jobs and Apple written by Times journalist Bryan Appleyard and published in the Times Online (and probably in the newspaper itself as…

  • Add your voice to the illegal file-sharing debate

    News today that the government is pledging to combat internet piracy in the UK with a series of new measures, including £50,000 fines for those found guilty of illegal file-sharing. The Guardian says that the move is being pushed through…

  • Share your iPhone app recommendations with Appsfire

    One of the great things about iPhone apps is telling everyone about the ones you like as well as discovering what your friends like. Here’s a new service that lets you use email and social media to share your recommendations…

  • Is this a future for the newspaper business?

    More than 500 newspapers have signed up for an online news charging scheme, says Brand Republic. A US company called Journalism Online has signed up newspapers and online news outlets across the USA to use its e-commerce system for charging…

  • Sign up to stop the NLA charging PR for links

    Last month, I wrote about plans by the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) here in the UK to introduce a scale of charges for anyone in the PR business who uses a link on their own website to any mainstream media…