The Guardian:
Getting a place on a graduate training programme can be like tackling an assault course. One determined student talks to Nic Paton about clearing the hurdles ... and winningYou may not (yet) have to stand up and sing in front (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
New injunctions against gangs and action on wheelclampers included in Alan Johnson's crime billNew antisocial behaviour injunctions – dubbed gangbos – aimed at tackling teenage gang members as young as 14 are to be introduced (Read More)
The Guardian:
Commodities soared and emerging markets took off, but the average small investor missed out, says Patrick CollinsonIt invests in goldmines – and it became a goldmine. Every £1,000 invested in BlackRock Gold & General at the b (Read More)
The Guardian:
Gold was a lousy investment in the 90s … how times change. The humble savings account, meanwhile, more than held its ownGoldIt has been one of the best investments of the past decade, and this week it was hitting new highs. B (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Peter Thornton was ousted from the family business – Thorntons chocolates – by his brothers and cousin. He talks about the bitter rivalries that ended his careerPeter Thornton always knew he would inherit the family chocolate (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Manchester City manager has not revealed line-up• Coaching staff working on shoring up defenceMark Hughes is toying with the notion of dropping Carlos Tevez from his Manchester City team to face Liverpool tomorrow even thou (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp we saw the launch of VideoLobby, a new service founded by Peter Urban that’s looking to make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding. The service is an (Read More)
Rugby RSS feed:
For what it is worth, and Martin Johnson is not one to concern himself with statistics, should England lose to New Zealand at Twickenham this afternoon then the record under Johnson’s leadership will be remarkably similar to (Read More)
VentureBeat:
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise.One of our newest speakers is Randy Breen, chief op (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Paul Price submits:BK:NYSE Nov. 20, 2009 - $26.05 Dividend = $0.09 quarterly = 1.38% current yield Bank of New York Mellon was created by the July 2007 merger between Mellon Financial and Bank of New York making it one of th (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Archipelago Learning (ARCL), Cloud Peak Energy (CLD), Global Defense Technologies (GTEC), and 7 Days Group (SVN) are all expected to begin trading Friday, marking the busiest day in IPOs since September 23 of this year, when (Read More)
ETF Trends:
The Chinese yuan, along with the related exchange traded funds (ETF), hasn’t shifted much because of the country’s staunch approach to monetary management. However, external and internal factors may soon change that.President (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT h (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The wild escalation of top salaries goes across both sectors – and so must the solution: a high pay commissionIf ever there were a need for a high pay commission to put some rationality into out-of-control top pay scales, thi (Read More)
SF Gate:
A New York hedge fund wants to increase its ownership stake in Agilysys Inc. but is not seeking to control the company. MAK Capital One LLC, the investment manager of MAK Capital Fund and Paloma International L.P., plans to b (Read More)
www.ft.com:
The asset management group says the offering will cut net debt to £150m. Managers are expected to sell up to 20% of their shares. (Read More)
readwriteweb:
The Web constantly changes and evolves. That, of course, is what makes the Internet so exciting, but it also means that finding older versions of a website is hard. The current push towards the real-time web is making this pr (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Four bridges collapse, main roads are blocked and hundreds are evacuated as 12 inches of rain falls in Cumbria in 24 hoursA policeman swept away and killed during the devastating flooding that hit north-west England was tryi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
A management consultant specialised in firing people has his world turned upside down when he meets the woman of his dreams. (Read More)