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Category: Business

  • ABN Amro Bank opens in Second Life

    Dutch bank ABN Amro is to open an office in Second Life, Reuters reports. The Netherlands’ biggest bank told Reuters Second Life bureau that it will create a virtual bank resembling ABN’s real-life outlets, offering financial advice. ABN said it…

  • Could the 40% offer overload Thresher?

    It started as a Stormhoek Wine blog post, was picked up by bloggers, expanded into chat forums and, one week on, has now made BBC TV news. The 40 percent discount offer from the Thresher wine and spirits retailer could…

  • Buy your complete house at Ikea

    Ikea, the iconic Swedish home-furnishing retailer, has made a move in the UK that, if you think about it, is entirely logical. From yesterday’s Financial Times: Ikea […] is to launch its own range of houses in Britain. The timber-framed…

  • No painless switching to Open Office

    The French parliament has said ‘au revoir’ to Microsoft, according to a Yahoo News report: […] Starting [next June], French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft’s…

  • Spreading the viral wine discount

    Hugh MacLeod – cartoonist extraordinaire, bespoke tailoring champion and, latterly, viral marketer for Stormhoek wine – has started talking about something that could get quite big quite quickly. No need for that booze cruise to Calais before Christmas as you…