Even in a global economy business decisions taken that affect key election swing states can give a global multinational CEO indigestion. As with most issues, could the sub-context be more important than the headline? Economically one can see the business logic. German owned DHL Express wants UPS to replace ABX Air and Astar Air Cargo [...]

While the Democrats have planned a Rocky Mountain high for Denver (that is if the Clinton’s stop thinking everything is always about them and come back to the reality of planet earth), those heading to the Republican convention in Minneapolis (or is it St. Paul?) have been jumping ship like proverbial rats.
Senator Pat Roberts of [...]

Memo to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili: just because Mr. Putin looks comfortable sitting and waving at the Olympic Opening ceremonies, don’t assume he is not paying attention. Whatever you do sir, don’t mess with the Big Dog.
Your attempt to assert authority over your own land thinking the bored guy sitting next to him wondering when [...]

The price of oil has retreated from its all-time nose-bleed inducing high and prices at the pump have declined in the US to $3.80 a gallon ($8.26 in the UK) but not at the same rate at which they rode skyward. Part of the UK number also includes a 5% drop in the currency exchange [...]

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George Carlin was always moving at full speed while delivering his rapid-fire expletive laden rants. He often looked like an amphetamine-fuelled caged animal on every stage, his iconic side-to-side pacing whilst staring intently at the microphone or the floor seemed to create the energetic fuel link to his brain allowing his always whirring mind [...]

Willie Sutton, uttered that famous line after a long career of bank robberies a century or so ago. He would have loved the Internet.
This topic was first written about in January over Internet click-through ads. I said that unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Now with [...]

The most spectacular opening ceremony of a modern Olympiad is in the bag. 15,000 in the cast. Synchronised fireworks, drumming and dancing wowed an audience of 4 billion globally on the telly. A remarkable festival of colours and digital effects combined with movements that took a year to rehearse under what had to have been [...]

What’s in this name? Everything. It took three months to find one not squatted upon by someone like the guy who sold Pizza.com for £1.3 million pounds, we wanted something that conveyed our desire to dig deeper into news, open a dialogue and epitomised moving forward together. When every Greek, Latin, Sanskrit or Taino (indigenous Caribbean language) quotable quote was taken (even this URL [...]

This line was uttered by Marlin the Daddy clownfish searching for his son in the film ‘Finding Nemo’ when he comes to the realisation that the light in the depths of the ocean he has been dreamily following is the lure of an Anglerfish. Barack Obama must feel the same way when a YouTube video of [...]

Mr. Gates has held many titles in his long career. From software developer to world’s richest man to, as some on the opposite side of a negotiating table would call him, ruthless genius… all titles fit him at different stages in his career. His retirement last month from day-to-day operations at Microsoft Corporation, the company [...]