Category: Business

  • Maybe too late for Northern Rock

    What end is in sight for Northern Rock, the beleaguered financial institution whose customers simply don’t believe any reassurance that the bank is not in deep financial trouble? The media is full of reports and images of thousands of people…

  • Blogs drive business opportunities: UK survey

    A new survey on business blogging conducted in August by research firm Loudhouse – the results of which were presented at an event in London yesterday in which I participated – shows that blogs are rapidly becoming a credible tool…

  • The escalating ban-Facebook hype

    Yet another survey is out saying that Facebook damages business, this time to the tune of £130 million a day. That’s equivalent to about £3.8 billion a month. Or over £45 billion a year. Such extrapolated numbers are even less…

  • The PR battleground for social networks

    With social networks like Facebook and MySpace in the news a great deal, I find it interesting to get a sense of the depth of behind-the-scenes business planning going on and the role of PR in that planning. According to…

  • Virtual credit cards arrive in Second Life

    Yesterday I signed up for a credit card that I could use in Second Life. Today the approval came, so watch out virtual shops! The credit card comes from First Meta, a financial services firm based in Singapore, that has…